Letters from Dmitry Merezhkovsky to Dmitry Filosofov

For the first time, all of the preserved letters of Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky to Dmitry Vladimirovich Filosofov are entirely published. Epistolary dialogues among the legendary literary, philosophical, and life-building “trio” of Merezhkovsky, Filosofov, and Z.N. Gippius were of unequal intensity: Merezhkovsky couple didn’t exchange letters at all (as they never parted for a single day during their entire lives); correspondence between Gippius and Filosofov, by contrast, consisted of hundreds of letters, but not entirely extant — it has all been published to date. Concluding this speculative triangle, the corpus of letters from Merezhkovsky to Filosofov (all the replies are gone, or at the very least have not yet been found) is by no means comparable in volume and ardor to those of Gippius, but in the same time, it is a remarkable source both for the biographies of the correspondents themselves and for literary history in general. A thorough commentary accompanies the letters.