I"m not afraid of anything

The personality and heritage of Zinaida Nikolaevna Hippius (1869-1945) occupy a special place in the Russian literature of the 20th century. A bright and deep lyrics, a gifted prose writer, a smart and subtle critic, a brilliant memoirist, she enjoyed significant authority and influence in literary circles.
Books of memoirs "Dmitry Merezhkovsky" and "living faces" mutually complement each other, making a single memoir cycle. If the first, in fact, came out of the diary - this is a detailed fixation of events that reflected the tense spiritual searches of the Russian intelligentsia of the late XIX - early XX centuries, then the second is not just and not only memories, but also a book of portraits - psychologically convincing and artistically reliable, then, then, then. It is no accident that the main thing in it is not the events, but the individuals - A. Blok, A. Bely, V. Bryusov, F. Sologub, V. Rozanov, A. Vyrubov, G. Razputin ... Hippius memoirs organically complement her "diaries" that reflected the time Extremely vividly, compressed, capacious, exactly - exciting, and sometimes bleeding documents of the era