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MEREJKOVSKY (or MEREZHKOVSKIY), DMITRI SERGYEEVICH (1865– ) , See also:Russian novelist and critic, was See also:born at St See also:Petersburg in 1865. His trilogy of See also:historical romances, collectively entitled See also:Christ and See also:Antichrist, has been translated into many See also:European See also:languages, notably See also:English and See also:French. It comprises Smert Bogov (Eng. trans. " The See also:Death of the Gods," See also:London, 1901), the central figure in which is See also:Julian the Apostate; Voskresenie Bogi (" The Forerunner," London, 1902), which describes the See also:life and times of Leonardo da See also:Vinci; and Antikhrist: Petr i Aleksyey (" See also:Peter and See also:Alexis," London, 1905), which is based on the tragic See also:story of the relations between Peter the See also:Great and his son. The See also:influence of See also:Sienkiewicz can be traced in many of Merejkovsky's writings, which includecritical studies of See also:Pliny the Younger, See also:Calderon, See also:Montaigne, See also:Ibsen, See also:Tolstoy (Tolstoy as See also:Man and Artist, London, 1902), and of See also:Gorki and other Russian writers. Merejkovsky married Zinaida Nikolaevna, known in See also:Russia for her poems, essays and See also:short stories written under the See also:pseudonym of Zinaida Hippius (or Gippius); her collected poems (1889-19o3) were published in See also:Moscow in 1904.

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