Gippius, Zinaida Nikolayevna

Gippius, Zinaida Nikolayevna zēnīē´də nyĭkəlī´əvnə gē´pēo͝os [key], pseud.Anton Krainy,1869–1945, Russian writer. Her St. Petersburg salon was a meeting place (1905–17) for young poets of thesymbolistmovement. Self-educated, she wrote Dostoyevskian novels, morbid and mystical poetry, and essays. Her best-known poetry appeared inSobraniye stikhov(1904–10). With her husband, the writer D. S. Merezhkovsky, she emigrated to France after the Bolshevik Revolution. Her name is also spelled Hippius.

See her selected works, ed. by T. Pachmuss (1972); biography by T. Pachmuss (1971).

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