L'itinéraire religieux de Zinaida Hippius

Alessandra Crainz, The religious itinerary of Zinaida Hippius. The religious itinerary of Zinaida Hippius connected with revival of interest for religion in Russia at the end of the nineteenth century, acquires a mystic aspect reflected by her poetry. It lead to the creation of Religious philosophy meetings which she contributed to found. Christianity played an essential part in her conception of the world. She saw in it an absolutely positive force that had totally changed the perspectives of humanity. Nevertheless, the attitude of Hippius towards Church was a critical one because she coasidcred that historical Church could not incarnate universal Christianity. It is only the lacerations of the war and of the October revolution that modified her attitude in this respect. Faced with the suffering of what she viewed as the martyred Church, she considered that all criticism should be abolished and unconditional support given to religion.