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
Mereschkowski c. 1885
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
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
Konstantin Mereschkowski
…Varvara Vasilyevna (née Tcherkasova), was a daughter of a senior Saint Petersburg security official, and was fond of arts and literature. The writer Dmitry Merezhkovsky (1866–1941) was one of his younger brothers. From 1875 to 1880 he worked for his degree at the University of Saint Petersburg, travelling north to the…
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)