Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky was a Russian novelist, poet, religious thinker, and literary critic. A seminal figure of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry, regarded as a co-founder of the Symbolist mo
Merezhkovsky c. 1900
Merezhkovsky in 1890s. Portrait by Ilya Repin
Gippius and Volynsky, 1890s
Troyebratstvo (Gippius, Merezhkovsky and Filosofov) in the early 1910s. Caricature by Re-Mi (Nikolai Remizov)
Konstantin Sergeevich Mereschkowski was a Russian biologist and botanist, active mainly around Kazan, whose research on lichens led him to propose the theory of symbiogenesis – that larger, more compl
Dmitry Merezhkovsky
…76) Paris, Nazi-occupied France Alma mater Saint Petersburg State University Occupations Poet writer literary critic Spouse Zinaida Gippius Relatives Konstantin Mereschkowski Writing career Period 1888–1941 Genres Poetry, historical novel, philosophical essay Notable works Christ and Antichrist (trilogy) Literary movement…
Suicide scene of Konstantin Mereschkowski
Mereschkowski's tree-of-life diagram, showing the origin of complex life-forms by two episodes of symbiogenesis, the incorporation of symbiotic bacteria, 1905