Dmitry Filosofov
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| Born | Dmitry Vladimirovich Filosofov 7 April [O.S. 26 March] 1872 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
| Died | 4 August 1940 (aged 68) Otwock, Poland |
| Occupation | literary critic, essayist, editor, political activist |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Alma mater | Saint Petersburg State University |
| Period | 1897-1940 |
| Relatives | Anna Filosofova (mother) |
Dmitry Vladimirovich Filosofov (Russian: Дми́трий Влади́мирович Филосо́фов; 7 April [O.S. 26 March] 1872, Saint Petersburg – 4 August 1940, Otwock, Poland) was a Russian author, essayist, literary critic, religious thinker, newspaper editor and political activist, best known for his role in the early 1900s influential Mir Iskusstva circle and part of quasi-religious Troyebratstvo (The Brotherhood of Three), along with two of his closest friends and spiritual allies, Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Zinaida Gippius.
Following the Bolshevik Revolution he emigrated to Poland.
The son of feminist and philanthropist Anna Filosofova, Dmitry Filosofov was educated first in the private Karl May School (where he first met Alexandre Benois and Konstantin Somov), then in the Saint Petersburg University, studying law. After a couple of years spent abroad, he started working as a journalist, writing for Severny Vestnik and Obrazovanye. With the inception of Mir Iskusstva magazine, Filosofov became the editor - first of literary, then of literary criticism sections. It was at this time that his close friendship with Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Zinaida Gippius begun; soon he joined them to form "Troyebratstvo", a quasi-religious group which some saw as a domestic sect, claiming to aim at renovating the Christian values along the new, modernist lines.
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