Library of Russian classics. Issue 10

The new release of the unique virtual library contains the collected works of the famous Russian writer and poet, literary critic and publicist - Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky (1865-1941) He became one of the founders of the direction of symbolism, the founder of the new historiosophical novel for Russian literature and was one of the first to apply the religious and philosophical approach to analysis of art works.
Many novels, essays and drama Merezhkovsky are devoted to bright historical personalities. Farly eras, images of formidable rulers and reformers - Julian of the apostate, Luther and Calvin, Peter I, Paul I and Alexander I. The writer"s deep interest in the history of the religious thought of mankind was expressed in his works about the Babylonian and Egyptian gods and cults, about Julian. About Paul and Augustine, Francis of Assis and Jeanne d"Arc. At the center of the original literary and journalistic works of Merezhkovsky - works and personalities of the classics of Russian literature: Gogol and Lermontov, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Gorky