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  • The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci: The Forerunner

    by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky ...
    At Siena was discovered another statue of Venus, to the huge joy of the inhabitants. A great concourse, with much feasting and honour, set it up over the fountain called II Fonte Gaja," as an adornment. . . . "But great tribulation having come upon the land by reason of the Florentines, there arose one of the council, a citizen, and spake in this wise: 'Fellow-citizens, since the finding of this ... Read more

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  • The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci, the Forerunner

    Enriched edition. A Philosophical Historical Novel of Renaissance Art, Science, and the Restless Human Spirit

    by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky ...
    Translated by Herbert Trench ...
    In "The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci, the Forerunner," Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky intricately weaves a narrative that explores the life and times of the quintessential Renaissance polymath, Leonardo da Vinci. Through a blend of historical fiction and philosophical inquiry, Merezhkovsky employs a lyrical prose style that immerses the reader in the vibrant tapestry of Renaissance Italy. The ... Read more

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  • Akhnaton: King of Egypt And The Life and Times of Akhnaton: Pharaoh of Egypt

    by Dmitri Merezhkovsky & Arthur Edward Pearse Brome Weigall ...
    Tutankhamon-Tutankhaton, the envoy of Akhnaton, the king of Egypt, brought him a marvellous gift from the island of Crete—Dio, the dancer, the pearl of the Kingdom of the Seas. He boasted that he had saved her from death: but it was not he who saved her. When she killed the god-Bull in the Knossos arena to avenge her friend Eoia who had been sacrificed to the Beast, she was sentenced to be burned ... Read more

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  • The Death of the Gods

    A Novel of Julian the Apostate

    by Dmitry Merezhkovsky ...
    Translated by Herbert Trench ...
    Series series Salon & Steppe
    Complete and unabridged, with 56 full-page plates by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Hubert Robert and Edvard Munch. Julian the Apostate takes the Roman purple and tries to give the old gods back their world, in the opening volume of Merezhkovsky's trilogy on Christ and Antichrist. Merezhkovsky was nominated for the Nobel nine times and died in Paris exile; his argument — that the flesh and the spirit are ... Read more

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  • Peter and Alexis

    The Romance of Peter the Great

    by Dmitry Merezhkovsky ...
    Series series Salon & Steppe
    Complete and unabridged, with 53 full-page plates by Lovis Corinth, Johann Wilhelm Schirmer and Eduard Hildebrandt. Peter the Great against his own son, and a father who has the boy tortured to death for treason. The third of Merezhkovsky's trilogy on the pagan and Christian worlds; the interrogation scenes are taken from the surviving transcripts. This edition is bound with 53 plates of paintings ... Read more

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  • The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci

    The Forerunner

    by Dmitry Merezhkovsky ...
    Translated by Herbert Trench ...
    Series series Salon & Steppe
    Complete and unabridged, with 44 full-page plates by François Clouet, Corneille de Lyon and Jean Colombe. Leonardo in Milan and Florence - the workshop, the anatomies, the unfinished commissions - as the second book of a trilogy about the pagan and Christian worlds contending. Merezhkovsky's Leonardo was admired by Freud and read across Europe before the revolution sent its author into exile. This ... Read more

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  • The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci

    by Dmitry Merezhkovsky ...
    This book is incomparable in the magic power of evoking startlingly vivid pictures of the Middle Ages. It is a gorgeous pageant, full of pomp and magnificence. Here and there the reader is given a glimpse into the mortal and humble frailties and exigencies behind the grandeur. This work is a fabulous historical novel that is full of a sly, crisp humor and contains some portions which are veritable ... Read more

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  • Akhnaton, King of Egypt

    by Dmitry Merezhkovsky ...
    Translated by Natalie Duddington ...
    Tutankhamon-Tutankhaton, the envoy of Akhnaton, the king of Egypt, brought him a marvellous gift from the island of Crete—Dio, the dancer, the pearl of the Kingdom of the Seas.He boasted that he had saved her from death: but it was not he who saved her. When she killed the god-Bull in the Knossos arena to avenge her friend Eoia who had been sacrificed to the Beast, she was sentenced to be burned ... Read more

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  • The Death of the Gods

    by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky ...
    The novel is set in the late Roman Empire during the reign of Emperor Nero and centers around the decline of paganism and the rise of Christianity. The story weaves together historical events and fictional elements to depict the struggle between the old pagan gods and the emerging Christian faith.The protagonist, a character named Justin, represents the old pagan world and its values. His story ... Read more

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  • The Death of the Gods

    by Dmitry Merezhkovsky ...
    Among Russian writers whose works have achieved European reputation, prominence must be given to Dmitri Merejkowski. The son of a court official, Merejkowski was born in 1866, and began to write verses at the age of fifteen, his first volume of poems appearing in 1888. Then, nine years later, came the first of his great trilogy, "The Death of the Gods," which is continued in "The Resurrection of ... Read more

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  • The Death of the Gods

    by Dmitry Merezhkovsky ...
    This classic historical novel, first published in 1904, creates an outstanding picture of the 4th century, Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate and the profound spiritual implications of his life and deeds... ... Read more

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  • The Life-Work of Flaubert From the Russian of Merejowski

    by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky ...
    Balzac in one of his novels gives utterance to the following thought: "Genius is a terrible disease. Every writer of genius cherishes in his heart a monster which devours all his emotions as soon as he gives birth to them. Which is to be the conqueror? Will the disease vanquish the man, or the man the disease? He must be a great man who can establish a perfect equilibrium between his genius and ... Read more

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