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Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius , pseud. Anton Krainy, 1869-1945, Russian writer. Her St. Petersburg salon was a meeting place (1905-17) for young poets of the symbolist movement. Self-educated, she wrote Dostoyevskian novels, morbid and mystical poetry, and essays. Her best-known poetry appeared in Sobraniye 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.

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



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