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Dmitrii Merezhkovskii Papers Dmitrii Sergeevich Merezhkovskii (1865--1941) was a prominent Russian writer and religious philosopher. His literary corpus includes poetry, novels, dramas, critical essays, and translations from several languages. Merezhkovskii's European fame, however, rests primarily on his historical novels, first of all, on his trilogy Christ and Antichrist (1896 --1905). Merezhkovskii came from an aristocratic family and was educated at the Historical-Philological Faculty of the University of St. Petersburg. In 1989 he married Zinaida Hippius and they settled in St. Petersburg. Merezhkovskii's second book of verse Symbols (1892) and his treatise "On the Reasons for the Decline of, and on New Trends in, Contemporary Russian Literature" (1893) made him a leader of the new movement called "decadent" or "symbolist." In the late 1890's Merezhkovskii, by then more a novelist and critic than a poet, turned from Nietzschianism to Christianity. Merezhkovskii, Hippius, and Dmitrii Filosofov developed the concept of a "church of the Holy Flesh and the Holy Spirit", in which they sought to integrate the life-affirming traits of Greek paganism into Christian spirituality. In 1901 Merezhkovskii, Hippius, and D. Filosofov founded the Religious-Philosophical society of St. Petersburg. Two editions of Merezhkovskii's Collected Works appeared in 1911-1913 and 1914, and many of these works were translated into various European languages. The Merezhkovskiis were among first Russian writers who actively opposed the Bolshevik regime. In 1919 they (along with their secretary V. Zlobin and D. Filosofov) left Soviet Russia via Poland. Together with Boris Savinkov they tried to organize military opposition to Bolshevism in Poland, but their attempts failed. In 1920 the Merezhkovskiis left Warsaw and settled in Paris, where they continued to play an important role in the intellectual and literary life of Russian emigration. Merezhkovskii remained an extremely prolific author for the rest of his life. Works written in emigration include Napoleon (1929) Messia (1928) Taina Zapada. Atlantida -Evropa (The Secret of the West. Atlantis-Europe, 1930), Iisus Neizvestnyi (Jesus, the Unknown, 1932-34), and books about Dante, Francis from Assisi, Jeanne d' Arc, St. Augustin, and St. Paul |
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| 10 | Publications | ||||||||||||
| Articles and Essays, Newspaper clippings, 1928-1957 | |||||||||||||
| "Liuter, Cal'vin, Pascal'." Neizdannoe predislovie k "Paskaliu" (Unpublished Preface to "Pascal"), Russkaia mysl', March 14, 1957 | |||||||||||||
| "Psalom tsaria Akhenatona" (A Psalm of King Akhenaton), Zveno, Feb.21, 1920 | |||||||||||||
| "Qui commes-nous?" (Who Are We?), an unidentified French newspaper , undated. | |||||||||||||
| "Suvorin i Chekhov", an essay, Vozrozhdenie,, undated. | |||||||||||||
| "Taina Tiutcheva" (The Secret of Tiutchev) , 1914 and 1957 | |||||||||||||
| "Zacholust'e. Itogi malen'koi polemiki" (Out-of-the way-place. Results of the Brief Polemics), Vozrozhdenie, Jan. 26, 1928 | |||||||||||||
| "Zacholust'e. Itogi malen'koi polemiki", II, Vozrozhdenie, Jan. 28, 1928 | |||||||||||||
| Prose | |||||||||||||
| "Iisus neizvestnyi" (Chapter "Nazaretskie budni"), Sovremennye zapiski, 1931 | |||||||||||||
| "Le Carnet de Notes", (from the book Tsarstvo Antichrista1921) , 1920 | |||||||||||||
| "Messia" (Messiah), Part I, Sovremennye zapiski, no. 27 , 1926 the first page is missing. | |||||||||||||
| "Napoleon -- chelovek" (Napoleon, a Man), chapters from the book, Sovremennye zapiski, undated | |||||||||||||
| "Sud'i Napoleona" (Judges of Napoleon), chapter from the book "Napoleon - chelovek", Novyi korabl', no. 2, 1928 | |||||||||||||
| "Ukrotitel' chaosa" ( Tamer of Chaos), chapter from the book "Napoleon - chelovek", Vozrozdenie, 1928 | |||||||||||||
| "Napoleon - rabotnik" (Napoleon, the Worker), chapter from the book "Napoleon -chelovek", Ibid , undated | |||||||||||||
| "Commediante", chapter from the book "Napoleon-chelovek", Ibid., undated | |||||||||||||
| "Napoleon i Rok" ( Napoleon and Fate), Ibid, no.1018, 1928 | |||||||||||||
| "Napoleon i Rok", Ibid., no. 1021, 1928 | |||||||||||||
| "Napoleon i Rok", Ibid., undated | |||||||||||||
| Napoleon, t..II, Belgrade, 1929 | |||||||||||||
| Volume II from Merezhkovskii's Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, Moscow, 1914 | |||||||||||||
| Volume undated from Merezhkovskii's Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, Moscow, 1914 The cover and first 35 pages are missing. | |||||||||||||
| Newspaper clippings about Merezhkovskii | |||||||||||||
| Mandel'shtam, Iurii. " D.S. Merezhkovskii", Vozrozhdenie, Dec. 5, 1935 | |||||||||||||
| Pil'skii, Petr. "O Merezhkovskom" Segodnia, Dec. 14, 1935 | |||||||||||||
| Teffi, N. "O Merezhkovskikh", Novoe Russkoe Slovo , Jan. 29, 1950 | |||||||||||||
| Vishniak, M "O predvidenii. Aldanov, Dostoevskii, Durnovo, Merezhkovskii, Rasputin" (About Foreseeing), Russkaia mysl', Apr. 16, 1957 | |||||||||||||
| "Il Sindicato Romano degli Autori in onori di Demetrio Merezhkowski", Il Messagero , Dec.8, 1936 | |||||||||||||
| "Merezhkowski Festeggiato Rome" , undated | |||||||||||||
| [Review on Merezhkovskii's "Pascal"], La Petite Gironde, July 16, 1941 | |||||||||||||
| "La Belle Manifestation en l'honneur de Dmitri Merejkowski", La Gazette, Sept. 20, 1940 | |||||||||||||
| Manuscripts | |||||||||||||
| Articles and Essays | |||||||||||||
| "André Gide et l' USSR", handwritten copy made by Hippius, in French, 1-7 pp. , undated | |||||||||||||
| "Budushchee Evropy" (The Future of Europe), handwritten copy made by Hippius, in Russian, 1-6 pp. , undated | |||||||||||||
| "L'avenir de l' Europe" (The Future of Europe), handwritten copy, in French, 1-11 pp. , undated | |||||||||||||
| "Krasnyi diavol" (Red Devil), typewritten copy, 1-2 pp. , undated | |||||||||||||
| "Kotoryi zhe iz vas. Iudaism i Christianstvo" (Which of You. Judaism and Christianity). 1 handwritten copy ( 1-25 pp.) and 1 typewritten copy (1-13 pp.). Published in Novyi korabl', in 1928 (as indicated by Zlobin) | |||||||||||||
| "L'ame Russe et L'ame Europenne", an article, handwritten copy, 1-18 pp. | |||||||||||||
| "L'avenir du Christianisme" (The Future of Christianity), 3 items | |||||||||||||
| 1 typewritten copy 1-17pp. | |||||||||||||
| Proofs | |||||||||||||
| "Consideration sur L'avenir du Christianisme", handwritten copy, in French, 1-7 pp. | |||||||||||||
| Lecture on Bolshevism, typewritten copy, in Russian, 1- 9 pp., 1920 | |||||||||||||
| "Lektsia ob antisemitizme" (Lecture on anti-Semitism), handwritten copy, in Russian, 1-17 pp. | |||||||||||||
| "Le Mystere du communisme Russe", an article translated by J. Chuzeville, typewritten copy, in French, 1-78 pp. + Notes to "Taina russkoi revolutsii", in Russian, 1-2 pp. | |||||||||||||
| "Nash put' v Rossiiu" (Our Way to Russia), handwritten copy, in Russian, 1-79 pp. and typewritten copy, 1- 40 pp. with irregularities., 1927 | |||||||||||||
| "Qui commes-nous?" (Who Are We?), handwritten copy, in French, 1-5 pp., 1924 | |||||||||||||
| "Taina Tiutcheva" (The Secret of Tiutchev); 2 articles under the same title, handwritten copies, (1-16 pp.) and (1-22 pp.), respectively. In Russian. | |||||||||||||
| Poetry, 13 items typewritten copies in Russian , undated. | |||||||||||||
| "Vecherniaia pesn'" | |||||||||||||
| "Piataia" | |||||||||||||
| "Sonnoe" | |||||||||||||
| "Glavnoe" | |||||||||||||
| "Vdrug" | |||||||||||||
| "Oduvanchiki" | |||||||||||||
| "V Bulonskom lesu" | |||||||||||||
| "Kassandra" | |||||||||||||
| "Tsarskosel'skii barel'ef" | |||||||||||||
| "Pesn' Parok" | |||||||||||||
| "M.D." | |||||||||||||
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| 11 | Prose and Drama | ||||||||||||
| "Dante", 8 folders, handwritten copy , 1936-1937 | |||||||||||||
| Materials and preliminary notes (2--32 pp. with irregularities; 50-52, 55 --59 pp. with irregularities). | |||||||||||||
| Materials and preliminary notes in three notebooks. | |||||||||||||
| Materials and preliminary notes for Part I (Zhizn' Dante), 1- 85 pp., 1-33 pp. | |||||||||||||
| "Dante i my", 1-64 pp. with irregularities | |||||||||||||
| Part I. Chapters I-- XI, 1-192 pp. | |||||||||||||
| Part I . Chapters XII- XVI192 - 352 pp. pages 287 - 317 from Chapter XV are missing. | |||||||||||||
| Part I. Notes to different chapters of Part I "Dante i my", 1-4 pp., " Novaia zhizn' nachinaetsia", "Drevnee plamia", "Dva vmesto trekh", "Pozhiraemoe serdtse", 1- 9pp.; "Eres' liubvi", "Liubit -- ne liubit'", "Beatriche neizvestnaia", 1-7 pp; "Smert' Beatriche", 1- 6 pp.; "Temnye luchi", 1-3pp.; "Mezhdu zemnoi i nebesnoi", 1-2pp.; "V zubakh volchitsy", 1- 4pp., "Malen'kii Antichrist", 1-4pp., "Dante izgnannyi",1- 4 pp., "Rai", 1-5 pp. | |||||||||||||
| Part II . "Chto sdelal Dante." Notes to different chapters of Part II "Incipit Comedia", "Voskreshenie mertvykh", "Est' li ad ?", 1-36 pp.; "Budushchaia tserkov'", 1-27 pp.; "Vera i znanie", 1-16 pp.; "Dante i on", 1-13 pp.; "Dante i ona", 1-7 pp.; "Chudo trekh", 1-13 pp.; "Dante i Uliss", 1- 4pp. | |||||||||||||
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| 12 | "Dante i Beatriche" (Dante and Beatrice), a movie script, typewritten copy, 1-86 pp., 1937 "Dante i Beatriche" was published by Temira Pachmuss in Merezhkovskii D.S., Gippius, Z.N. Dante -- Boris Godunov. Kinoscenarii, New York, 1990. | ||||||||||||
| "Dante i Beatriche" (Dante and Beatrice), a movie script, Part I. Handwritten copy, 1-33 pp., 1937 | |||||||||||||
| "Frantsisk Assizskii" (Francis of Assisi), 5 folders1938 "Frantsisk Assizskii" was published in Sovremennye zapiski, 1939, No 3. | |||||||||||||
| Materials and preliminary notes in four notebooks - 2 folders. | |||||||||||||
| Chapters: "Nachalo Frantsiska", 1--25 pp, with irregularities; "Zhizn' Frantsiska", 1-86 pp. with irregularities, -- 1 folder. | |||||||||||||
| Notes for "Frantsisk", 1-7 pp.; chapters "Iochim I", 1-6pp., 1-15 pp.; "Iochim II", 1- 30 pp., 1-16 pp.; "Iochim and Frantsisk", 1-17pp.; "Frantsisk", 1-38 pp., -- 1 folder. | |||||||||||||
| Vstavka II ( Addition II), 1-33 pp., Vstavka III (Addition III), 1-- 41pp. + 3 pp., -- 1 folder. | |||||||||||||
| "Iisus neizvestnyi", (Jesus the Unknown), handwritten copy, -- 16 folders , 1931-1933 "Iisus Neizvestnyi"was published in Belgrad in 1932 -1934. | |||||||||||||
| Part I, 1931 | |||||||||||||
| Chapters 2- 4. "Neizvestnoe Evangelie", 1-30 pp; "Mark, Matfei, Luka", 1-27pp.; "Ioann", 1-37pp. (Chapter I is missing), --1 folder | |||||||||||||
| Chapter 5. "Po tu storonu Evangeliia", 1- 44 pp.,-- 1 folder | |||||||||||||
| Part II, 1932 | |||||||||||||
| Chapters 1-2, "Raduisia, blagodatnaia", 1-34 pp.; "Utaennaia zhizn'", 1-53 pp., -- 1 folder. | |||||||||||||
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| 13 | Chapters 3-4, "Nazaretskie budni", 1-40 pp., "Moi chas prishel", 1-66 pp., -- 1 folder. | ||||||||||||
| Chapters 5-6, "Ioann Krestitel'", 1-52 pp; "Ryba-Golub'", 1- 44 pp., -- 1 folder. | |||||||||||||
| Chapters 7-8, "Iisus i d'iavol", 1-29 pp., "Iskushenie", 1- 43 pp., -- 1folder. | |||||||||||||
| Chapter "Ego Litso", 1-79 pp., -- 1 folder. | |||||||||||||
| Part III, 1933 | |||||||||||||
| Chapters 3, 4a, 4b, "Kana Galileiskaia", 1-26 pp. "Pervyi den' Gospoden'", 1-33 pp., "Blazhenstva", 1-55 pp., -- 1 folder | |||||||||||||
| Chapters 5-6, "Tsarstvo Bozhie", 1-45 pp., "Osvoboditel'", 1-71 pp., -- 1 folder. | |||||||||||||
| Chapters 7-8, "I mir Ego ne uznal", 1-54 pp.; "Prishel k svoim", 1-34 pp, -- 1 folder. | |||||||||||||
| Chapters 9-10, "I svoi ne priniali", 1-57 pp., "Kesariia Filippova", 1-48 pp., -- 1 folder. | |||||||||||||
| Chapter 11, "Preobrazhenie", 1-66 pp., -- 1 folder. | |||||||||||||
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| 14 | Part IV, 1933 | ||||||||||||
| Chapters 13- 15, "Vshestvie v Ierusalim", 1-40 pp., "Bich Gospoden'", 1-36 pp. "Seryi Ponedel'nik", 1-39 pp., -- 1 folder. | |||||||||||||
| Chapters 16-18, "Strashnyi sud", 1-30 pp.; "Iuda Predatel'", 1-27 pp., "Tainaia vecheria", 1-41 pp., -- 1 folder. | |||||||||||||
| Chapters 19- 21, "Gefsimaniia", "Sud Kaify", "Otrechenie Petra", "Sud Pilata", 1-86 pp., -1 folder. | |||||||||||||
| Chapters 22 - 25, "Raspiat",1-50 pp.; "Umer", 1-25 pp., "Voskres", 1- 43 pp., "Voistinu voskres", 1-34 pp.,-- 1 folder. | |||||||||||||
| "Primechaniia k Iisusu" (Notes to "Iisus Neizvestnui"), 1- 78 pp., -- 1 folder. | |||||||||||||
| "La Mort de Paul I" (The Death of Paul I), a play. Translated into French by Albert Touchard and Paul de Chévremont. Typewritten copy, 1- 49 pp.,-- 1 folder. | |||||||||||||
| "Leonardo da Vinchi i My" (Leonardo da Vinci and Us), 3 items, 1932 | |||||||||||||
| "L' Avenir de Crictianizme" published in The Dublin Magazine, undated. Retitled as "Leonardo da Vinci et nous" and re-edited, including handwritten additions (1-4 pp; 1-13 pp.), in French. "Leonardo da Vinchi i my" in Russian, handwritten copy, 1-40 pp, + 1-5 pp.; "Leonardo da Vinci i my", Preliminary notes, handwritten copy, 1-34 pp. | |||||||||||||
| "Malen'kaia Tereza" (Little Theresa), handwritten copy. 1--106 pp. with irregularities + a fragment entitled "Smert' otsa" (Death of the Father), 1- 4pp., 1941 "Malen'kaia Tereza" was published by T. Pachmuss in 1984, Ann Arbor. | |||||||||||||
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| 15 | "Messiia" (Messiah), handwritten copy, 5 folders, 1925 | ||||||||||||
| Materials and preliminary notes, (1-22 pp.); fragments of the Part III: III. 1 (1- 4pp.); III. 3 (1-14 pp.); III. 4 (1--27 pp.); III. 5 (1-- 20 pp.), -1 folder. | |||||||||||||
| Part I, "Bunt", (1-- 189 pp.), -- 1 folder. | |||||||||||||
| Part II, "Kto on", (1- pp.), -- 1 folder. | |||||||||||||
| Part III, "Ia ne on", 1-- 110 pp, -- 1 folder. | |||||||||||||
| Chapters 1, 2, 3, 7, 8 from Part IV (chapters 4, 5, 6 are missing), -- 1 folder. "Messiia"was published in Sovremennye zapiski1926, No. 27-29, 1927, no. 30 -32. | |||||||||||||
| "Napoléon", Part I, 1-26 pp. with irregularities, Part II , 1- 31 pp.with irregularities, + 9 pp.; Notes to "Napoléon", 1-23 pp. with irregularities, -- 1 folder, 1928 | |||||||||||||
| "Paskal'" -- 2 folders. | |||||||||||||
| Materials and preliminary notes, handwritten copy, 1- 55 pp. In Russian, -- 1 folder. | |||||||||||||
| "Pascal." Part I. "La vie de Pascal", typewritten copy, 1- 43 pp. with irregularities. Part II. "L'oeuvre de Pascal", typewritten copy, 1-38 pp. with irregularities. In French, - 1 folder. Published in Paris in 1941. | |||||||||||||
| "Pavel" (St. Paul), 4 notebooks + 1 folder. | |||||||||||||
| Materials and preliminary notes -- 2 notebooks. | |||||||||||||
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| 16 | Chapters I--VII, -- 1 notebook; | ||||||||||||
| Chapters VIII -- XLV, -- 2 notebooks. | |||||||||||||
| "Pavel" (St. Paul), Notes to "Pavel", 1-69 pp., -- 1 folder. | |||||||||||||
| "Sv. Avgustin" (St. Augustin) -- 6 notebooks. | |||||||||||||
| Materials and preliminary notes, -- 2 notebooks; | |||||||||||||
| Chapters I -- XXIX, -- 1 notebook | |||||||||||||
| Chapters XXIX-- LV, -- 1 notebook | |||||||||||||
| Chapters LV -- LXXX, -- 1 notebook | |||||||||||||
| Chapters LXXXI--XCVI, -- 1 notebook | |||||||||||||
| "Sv. Ioann Kresta" (St. John the Baptist), 5 folders. Photocopy of the handwritten manuscript. "Sv. Ioann Kresta" was published by Zlobin in Novyi zhurnal, 1961, no. 64-65, 1962, no. 69. | |||||||||||||
| Early draft, chapters "Chto sdelal Ioann Kresta" (1 -- 13 pp. with irregularities); "Tvar' i Bog" (1--11pp); "Temnaia noch'" (1--22 pp.); "Svetlyi den'" (1-23 pp.); "Sv. Ioann Kresta i my" (1-16 pp.); "Zhizn' Sv. Ioanna Kresta", (1-29 pp.), -- 1 folder. | |||||||||||||
| Early draft, chapters: "Odinochestvo" in two variants (1-11 pp) and (1- 4pp.); untitled chapter (1-11pp.), "Novye goneniia" (1-5 pp.), "Smert'" (1-12pp.); and pages 13, 15, 16, 30-68 + 4 pages of notes, -- 1 folder. | |||||||||||||
| Later draft, chapters 1 - 9, untitled (120-156 pp.with irregularities) and typewritten copy of these pages (made by Temira Pachmuss), -- 1 folder. | |||||||||||||
| Later draft, chapters 10-18, untitled (157-203 pp. with irregularities) and typewritten copy of these pages (made by T. Pachmuss), -- 1 folder. | |||||||||||||
| Later draft, chapters 19 -- 28, untitled (69-119 pp.with irregularities) and typewritten copy of these pages, -- 1 folder. | |||||||||||||
| Notes to the novel, - 1 folder | |||||||||||||
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| 17 | "Taina Zapada. Atlantida-Evropa" (The Secret of the West. Atlantis- Europe), -- 8 folders. Handwritten copy , 1929 "Taina Zapada. Atlantida - Evropa" was published in Belgrad in 1930. | ||||||||||||
| Part I. "Atlantida." | |||||||||||||
| Preface "Bespoleznoe predislovie", 1-34 pp., Chapters 1-6, "Mif ili istoriia", 1-20 pp., "Belaia i chernaia magiia", "Umiraiushchii lebed'", 1-31, "Atlas -- Enoch", 1-22 pp., "Rozhdenie voiny" 1-22 p., "Ot Enocha k Iisusu", 1-25 pp.,- 1 folder. | |||||||||||||
| Chapters 7-14, "Atlantida-Amerika", 1-19 pp., "Raduga potopa", 1-19 pp., "Lunnye titany", 1- 21p., "Otchego pogibla Atlantida", 1-15 pp., "Krest v Atlantide", 1- 26 pp., Atlantida - Predistoriia", 1-26 pp., "Lednikovyi krest", 1-28 pp., "Soshestvie v ad", 1--33 pp., -- 1 folder. | |||||||||||||
| Notes to Part I, 1-21 pp., "Gibel' Atlantidy -Evropy" (preliminary notes., 1- 38 pp., "Umiraiushchii lebed'", 1-24 pp., -1 folder. | |||||||||||||
| Part II. Bogi Atlantidy (Gods of Atlantida). | |||||||||||||
| Chapters 1-3, "Evropa-Sodom", (1-28 pp.), "Stydnaia rana", (1-25 pp.); "Iz Atlantidy v Evropu", (1- 49 pp.), -- 1 folder | |||||||||||||
| Chapters 4-7, "Kreshchenye bogi",(1-35pp.), "Adonis - Atlas" (1-21 pp.), "Raspiatyi Eros (1--26 pp.); Attis-- Atlas (1--28 pp.),-- 1 folder | |||||||||||||
| Chapters 8-9, 'Androgin", (1-38 pp.); "Siniia--chernaia- belaia" (1- 47 pp.), -- 1 folder. | |||||||||||||
| Chapters 10-12, "Elevzinskie tainstva" (1-- pp.), "Dionis rasterzannyi" (1- pp.), "Dionis Chelovek" ( 1- pp.),-- 1 folder. | |||||||||||||
| Chapters 13-14, "Dionis budushchii (1-60pp.)",K Iisusu Neizvestnomu" (1 --48); Notes to all these chapters (1-46 pp.),-- 1 folder. | |||||||||||||
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| 18 | "Zhanna d'Ark" (Jeanne d'Arc), 3 folders. Handwritten copy. | ||||||||||||
| Materials and preliminary notes, 71 pp., -- 1 folder | |||||||||||||
| Part I (1- 55 pp.) and part II (1- 61 pp.), -- 1 folder | |||||||||||||
| Part III (1- 63 pp.) and part IV (1- 60 pp.),-- 1 folder. "Zhanna d'Ark" was published in Berlin in 1938. | |||||||||||||
| Articles about Merezhkovskii | |||||||||||||
| Schourlo, Alexis. "La Pensee de Merejkovski." Typewritten copy, 1- 37 pp. In French., 1957 | |||||||||||||
| Zlobin, Vladimir. [On Merezhkovskii and Hippius]. Typewritten copy, 1- 26 pp. In French , undated | |||||||||||||
| Notebooks | |||||||||||||
| Drafts of different articles, notes to "Tereza Ispanskaia", and "Liuter i my", -- 1 notebook. | |||||||||||||
| Notes and bibliography, -- 2 notebooks. | |||||||||||||
| Correspondence | |||||||||||||
| Private Correspondence | |||||||||||||
| Bunin, Ivan. 11 items , 1921-1924 Ivan Alekseevich Bunin (1870-1953) began his literary career in 1888, and soon achieved a reputation of the major Russian prose writer. In 1920 he left Soviet Russia and settled in France. In the emigration Bunin wrote some of his most important works, such as his fictionalized autobiography "Zhizn' Arsenieva" (The Life of Arseniev). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1933. | |||||||||||||
| 3 letters from Bunin to Merezhkovskii and Hippius, 1921 | |||||||||||||
| 8 letters from Merezhkovskii to Bunin, concerning literary and political matters, health, money, etc., as well as mutual acquaintances (1920-24). Bunin's letters were published by T. Pachmuss in "Iz archiva Merezhkovskikh: pis'ma I.A. Bunina Z.N. Gippius, D.S. Merezhkovskomu, V.A. Zlobinu", Russian Language Journal 40, No. 1351986. | |||||||||||||
| Kaplan, D. (Los Angeles, USA). 2 items, including a letter in Russian and a letter in Hebrew, 1934 | |||||||||||||
| Merezhkovskii, Nikolai. 2 items, including a letter from Nikolai Merezhkovskii (Dmitrii Merezhkovskii's brother), with the elaborate discription of his living in the nursing home in Shipka (Bulgaria), and a letter from D. Merezhkovskii, in which he promised to continue his financial support, 1927 | |||||||||||||
| Mussolini, Benito. Merezhkovskii's letter to Mussolini concerning his plans to write about Dante, and with the expressions of admiration of Mussolini's literary and political activities. 2 typewritten copies, 1-7 pp., one contains corrections. In French , undated | |||||||||||||
| Pope Benedict XV. A draft of Merezhkovskii's letter to Pope, concerning Bolsheviks' crimes against Russian people and Russian Church. Handwritten copy. In Russian, undated Benedict XV, original name Giacomo Della Chiesa (1854-1922), was pope from 1914-1922. | |||||||||||||
| Zveginstova, E. 1 letter to Merezhkovskii, In Russian, 1929 | |||||||||||||
| 2 Merezhkovskii's letters to unknown people. | |||||||||||||
| Business Correspondence | |||||||||||||
| Albin Michel, Publisher (Paris). 2 agreements, on publishing Merezhkovskii's works , undated. | |||||||||||||
| Albert Bonnier, Publishing House (Stockholm), An agreement on publishing Merezhkovskii's works, 1920 | |||||||||||||
| Association des Auteurs de Film (Paris). 2 items, including 1 letter to Merezhkovskii and a receipt, 1937 | |||||||||||||
| Athenaeum, Publishing House (Budapest). An agreement on publishing Merezhkovskii's works , undated | |||||||||||||
| Bernard Grasset, Publishing House (Paris): 10 items, including 9 letters to Merezhkovskii and an agreement on publishing his works , 1932-1939 | |||||||||||||
| Bibljoteka Groszova (Warsaw). 2 letters to Merezhkovskii and a receipt, 1926 | |||||||||||||
| Bloch, Alfred. Agent Général (Paris), A letter to Merezhkovskii and an agreement on publishing his works , 1938-1939 | |||||||||||||
| Borchard, A. Publisher (Paris). A letter to Merezhkovskii, 1938 | |||||||||||||
| Bradley, W. A. Literary agent (Paris). 3 items, letters to Merezhkovskii, 1939-1942 | |||||||||||||
| Bruno del Amo, Publishing House (Madrid). 5 items, including 1 postcard and 4 letters to Merezhkovskii, 1928-1932 | |||||||||||||
| Bureau Sulamerican Rour La Litterature Moderne (San Paulo). 6 items. 4 letters to Merezhkovskii, an agreement on publishing his works, and a letter from Merezhkovskii (a copy written by Zlobin)., 1934-1935 | |||||||||||||
| Calmann-Lévi, Publishing House (Paris). 7 items, including 2 letters to Merezhkovskii, 3 agreements on publishing his works, and 2 financial statements , 1932-1935 | |||||||||||||
| Centrum, Publishing House (Prague). 3 items, including 1 letter to Merezhkovskii and 2 financial statements , 1930-1935 | |||||||||||||
| Dante Könyvkiadó, Publishing House (Budapest). 4 letters to Merezhkovskii, 1924-1927 | |||||||||||||
| Drei Masken Verlag (Munich). An agreement on publishing Merezhkovskii's works. , undated. | |||||||||||||
| Editorial Sempere (Valencia). 10 letters to Merezhkovskii, 1925 | |||||||||||||
| Editorial Cervantes (Barselona). 2 items, including a letter to Merezhkovskii and a letter from Merezhkovskii (a copy written by Zlobin). | |||||||||||||
| Eliasberg, A., Translater. 2 agreements on translation of Merezhkovskii's works , 1921-1922 | |||||||||||||
| Elkin, B. (Berlin), A letter to Merezhkovskii, 1925 | |||||||||||||
| Ernst Flammarion, Publishing House. A letter to Merezhkovskii, 1934 | |||||||||||||
| Espasa-Calpe, Publishing House (Madrid). 7 items, including 6 letters to Merezhkovskii and a letter from Merezhkovskii (a copy) , 1929-1930 | |||||||||||||
| Fayard, A. Publishing House (Paris). An agreement on publishing Merezhkovski's work , undated. | |||||||||||||
| Foundation Chaliapin, A letter to Merezhkovskii, 1939 | |||||||||||||
| Gallimard, Publishing House (Paris). 4 items, including 3 letters to Merezhkovskii, and an agreement on publishing his works , 1934-1938 | |||||||||||||
| Gotthelf Verlag (Bern-Leiptzig), 1 postcard, 1934 | |||||||||||||
| Grethlein and Co, Publishing House (Leipzig -Zurich). 7 items, 2 letters to Merezhkovskii, an agreement on publishing his works and related documents, 3 letters from Boris Elkin, the literary agent (Berlin) and a letter from the notary, 1931-1932 | |||||||||||||
| Gustav Altenburg Verlag (Leipzig). 2 letters to Merezhkovskii, 1931 and 1941 | |||||||||||||
| Jonathan Cape Limited (London). 3 items, including 2 letters to Merezhkovskii and an agreement on publishing his works (3 pp), 1933-1934 | |||||||||||||
| Knight Publishers (New York). 2 items, including 1 letter to Merezhkovskii and an agreement on publishing his works , 1939 | |||||||||||||
| Kriger, E. Translator (Warsaw). 2 letters to Merezhkovskii, 1928 | |||||||||||||
| Ksiegarnia i antykwarnia Arnold Bardach (L'vov). 2 letters to Merezhkovskii, 1925 | |||||||||||||
| Kvasnicka a Hampl, Publishing House (Prague). 8 items, including an agreement on publishing Merezhkovskii's works, 6 letters to Merezhkovskii, and 1 financial statement, 1925 and 1935-1936 | |||||||||||||
| Komisarjevsky, Theodor and John Alford Esq. (London). An agreement on translation Merezhkovskii's works , 1927 | |||||||||||||
| [Theater] Král-Vinohrady (Prague). 2 letters to Merezhkovskii and 2 agreements on staging two of his plays , 1919-1920 | |||||||||||||
| [I.] Ladyschnikow Verlag (Berlin). 3 items, including an agreement on publishing Merezhkovskii's works and 2 letters , 1908 and 1921-1922 | |||||||||||||
| Lorentowic, J., the Director of Public Theaters (Warsaw), an agreement on staging Merezhkovskii's plays , 1920 | |||||||||||||
| Lutetia -Press (Paris). 2 letters to Merezhkovskii, 1939 | |||||||||||||
| Mednyi vsadnik, Publishing House (Berlin). an agreement on publishing Merezhkovskii's works , undated. | |||||||||||||
| Mondadory, A. Publishing House (Rome). A letter to Merezhkovskii, 1936 | |||||||||||||
| Morkovin, B. (Prague) A letter to Merezhkovskii, 1920 | |||||||||||||
| Narodno Delo, Publishing House (Belgrade), 2 letters to Merezhkovskii, 1933 | |||||||||||||
| [Mr.] Niscott, The P.E.N. Club, London. A copy of a letter from Merezhkovskii, in French, 1923 | |||||||||||||
| Piper and Co, Verlag (Munich). 11 items, including 4 letters to Merezhkovskii, an agreement on publishing his works, 3 financial statements, and 3 documents of money transactions , 1937-1941 | |||||||||||||
| Plamia, Publishing House (Prague). 4 items, including 2 letters to Merezhkovsskii, 1 letter to Hippius, and a financial statement, 1924 | |||||||||||||
| Produits Agricoles (Bordeaux), a transaction receipt, 1932 | |||||||||||||
| Renaissance (Paris), 2 letters to Merezhkovskii, 1928 | |||||||||||||
| Russkaia Zemlia, Publishing House. 2 items, including an agreement on publishing Merezhkovskii's works and an agreement on publishing Hippius' works , 1920 | |||||||||||||
| Ruski Kulturni Odbor, Publishing House (Belgrad). 9 items, including 6 agreements on publishing Merezhkovskii's works, 3 letters, and a financial statement , 1928-1932, 1937 | |||||||||||||
| Russkii Kul'tirno-Istoricheskii Musei (Museum of Russian Culture and History, Prague): 2 items, including a letter to Merezhkovskii and a letter to Hippius, concerning their manuscripts and photographs , 1936 | |||||||||||||
| Savremena Biblioteka, Publishing House (Belgrad). 4 items, including 3 letters to Merezhkovskii and an agreement on publishing his works , 1931 | |||||||||||||
| ScialtielMarguerite and Jeanne, Publishers (New York), an agreement on publishing Merezhkovskii's works , 1922 | |||||||||||||
| Service Litteraire. Anglo-Francais de "Synops", A letter to Merezhkovskii, 1939 | |||||||||||||
| Skerik, R. Publisher ( Prague), An agreement on publishing Merezhkovskii's works , 1923 | |||||||||||||
| Slovenija, Literary Journal (Ljubljana). 4 items. Letters about translation and publishing Merezhkovskii's works , 1932 | |||||||||||||
| Towarzystwo wydawnicze "RÓJ",( Warsaw): 2 letters to Merezhkovskii, 1928 | |||||||||||||
| Tsitron, M. Publisher (Paris). An agreement with Merezhkovskii on editing V. Rozanov's collected works , undated | |||||||||||||
| Vindrak, S. (Prague). 1 letter, 1920 | |||||||||||||
| Volzhsko-Kamskii Kommercheckii Bank (Russia). A financial statement, 1917 | |||||||||||||
| Financial statements issued by an unidentified publishing house, 3 items , 1928-1930 | |||||||||||||
| Letters to Merezhkovskii written by unidentified people, 3 items. In French. | |||||||||||||
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| 19 | Miscellaneous | ||||||||||||
| La opere di Dante (Works of Dante), MCMXXI. The book contains Merezhkovskii's comments in the margins. It also had an inscription by Zlobin to Franco Mazzoni in French ("A Franco Mazzoni / Exempliare annoté par Dmitry Merejkovsky / Paris le 17 fevr. 50 / W. Zlobine). | |||||||||||||
| Merezhkovskii's passport. | |||||||||||||
| [Poems by Boris Savinkov], 16 items. Handwritten copy. In Russian , 1911-1917. | |||||||||||||
| Memorabilia. 2 items, Including an announcement of Merezhkovskii's reading in Strasbourg on May 8, 1933 and a newspaper advertisement on staging Merezhkovskii's play in Prague (NovostiMarch 17, 1936) , 1933 and 1936. | |||||||||||||
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