DOI:

https://www.doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2018-10-355-367

Issue:

2018 №10

Author: Yulia Rykunina
About the author:

Yulia Rykunina, PhD, independent researcher, Moscow.

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Abstract:

The paper suggests some unnoticed contexts of the well-known study “L. Tolstoy and Dostoevsky” by Dmitry Merezhkovsky. Also it represents archival materials on the history of early Russian modernism, that deal with basic ideological themes of modernist culture.

Keywords: Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Leo Tolstoy, Max Nordau, Decadence, Vladimir Gippius.
For citation:

Rykunina Yulia. Man of the future, oyster and hermaphrodite: Two notes on the history of Decadence. Literary fact, 2018, no. 10, pp. 355–367.

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