Merezhkovsky Salon

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MEREZHKOVSKY SALON, one of the most significant centres of the Petersburg creative intelligentsia at the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th centuries. Masters of the house were husband and wife D. S. Merezhkovsky and Z. N. Gippius (in the marriage Merezhkovskaya); from 1905, their close friend critic and publicist D. V. Filosofov lived with them. From 1889, they rented a flat on the fourth floor of the house of Muruzi (24/27 Liteiny Avenue), later on the third floor of the same house, from 1912, they lived on 83 Sergievskaya Street (today Tchaikovskogo Street). Writers N. M. Minsky, F. Sologub, A. A. Blok, A. Bely, V. Y. Bryusov, Vyach. I. Ivanov, P. P. Pertsov, V. Pyast, philosophers V. V. Rozanov, N. A. Berdyaev, theologians V. A. Ternavtsev, A. V. Kartashev, V. V. Uspensky, members of the circle and later of the union the World of Art A. N. Benois, L. S. Bakst, V. F. Nouvel et al. met at the Merezhkovsky Salon. The programme of Religious-Philosophic Meetings was developed at literary soirees (they were held in 1901-03 in the hall of the Geographical Society in the building of the Ministry for People's Education, today 2 Lomonosova Square), the journal New Way was conceived, and problems of culture and religion, news of social and political life were discussed.

References: Белый А. Начало века. М., 1990; Кобак А.В., Лурье Л. Я. Дом Мурузи. Л., 1990; Гиппиус З. Н. Дневники: В 2 кн. М., 1999.

T. M. Dvinyatina. Bakst Leon (real name Lev Samoilovich Rosenberg)
Bely Andrey (real name Bugaev Boris Nikolaevich)
Benois Alexander Nikolaevich
Berdyaev Nikolay Alexandrovich
Blok G.P.
Bryusov Valery Yakovlevich
Filosofov Dmitry Vladimirovich
Gippius Zinaida Nikolaevna
Ivanov Vyacheslav Ivanovich
Kartashev Anton Vladimirovich
Merezhkovsky Dmitry Sergeevich
Minsky (born Vilenkin) Nikolay Maximovich
Nouvel Walter Fedorovich
Pertsov Peter Petrovich
Pyast Vladimir Alexeevich
Rozanov Vasily Vasilievich
Sologub Fedor (real name Teternikov Fedor Kuzmich)
Ternavtsev Valentin Alexandrovich
Uspensky Vladimir Vasilievich
Liteiny Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 24/27
Lomonosova Square/Saint Petersburg, city, house 2
Tchaikovskogo St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 83
Белый А. Начало века. М., 1990
Кобак А. В., Лурье Л. Я. Дом Мурузи. Л., 1990
Гиппиус З. Н. Дневники: В 2 кн. М., 1999 World of Art, Association
Novy Put (New Way), newspaper