biography
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Merezhkovsky, Dmitry Sergeyevich
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pronunciation:
[merezhofskee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1865–1941)
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| biography:
| Novelist, critic, and poet, born in St Petersburg, NW Russia. He studied at university there, then became a writer, producing the historical trilogy, Khristos i Antikhrist (1896–1905), Christ and Antichrist, The Death of the Gods, The Forerunner, Peter and Alexis (trans titles), and books on Tolstoy, Ibsen, and Gogol. He opposed the Revolution in 1917, and fled to Paris in 1919 with his wife, Zinaida Nikolayevna Hippius (1870–1945), also a poet, novelist, and critic. |
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