Merezhkovsky biography of the poem

Quotes about the author Dmitry Merezhkovsky - Russian writer, literary critic, poet, religious philosopher, translator and public figure. One of the founders of Russian symbolism and the bright representative of the Silver Age. A brief biography and creative path Dmitry Sergeyevich was born on August 14 in St. Petersburg, in a noble family. He was the youngest of the three sons. Father served under Alexander the Second, was a cold and detached person, paying little attention to the children.

A great influence on the spiritual formation of the future writer was exerted by his mother. Having become adults, Dmitry Merezhkovsky talked only with her and one of the brothers, Konstantin. The young man was educated in the third classical gymnasium of St. Petersburg. He began to write poetry at the age of thirteen.

The first connoisseur of his work was his father, who introduced his son to Princess Vorontsova, who blessed the young poet to continue creativity. The first edition of Merezhkovsky’s poems took place in the year in the journal "Picturesque Review". However, the debut in the large literature is the publication in the journal "Domestic Notes" three years later. The poem "Sakya-Muni" brought a young man a lot of popularity.

In the year, Dmitry Sergeyevich graduated from the historical and philological faculty of St. Petersburg University and married the novice poetess Zinaida Gippius. In the spring of the same year, his first collection of poems and the first poem came out. The man began to translate ancient tragedies, subsequently called the "pride of the Russian school of artistic translation." Then Merezhkovsky’s debut took place.

Four years later, Dmitry released the poetic collection “Symbols. Songs and poems ”, which gave the name to the new literary current - symbolism. Then the poet gave a lecture in which he made an attempt to substantiate the theory of symbolism. After Morozhkovsky, he began to write historical and philosophical works and plays, acting mainly as a prose writer. In the year, his “Collection of Poems” came out, and in the year after the October Revolution, the couple left Russia.

Dmitry Sergeyevich published many books, including novels, critical and journalistic articles, dramatic scenarios, philosophical and religious works, poems. His contribution to world literature is truly not appreciated. Since the year, the writer has been nominated ten times to the Nobel Prize. The founder of symbolism died on December 9 in Paris. Similar authors.