a type-writer: each type is clear and well-read, but it's soul-less and boring," served as a leitmotif of the Soviet literary officialdom's view on Merezhkovsky for decades. In the Soviet times the writer was (in the words of Alexander Men) "aggressively forgotten," his works unofficially banned up until the early 1990s, when the floodgate of re-issues opened the way for serious critical analysis of Merezhkovsky's life and legacy. Select bibliography Novels Christ and Antichrist trilogy The Death of the Gods. Julian the Apostate (Christ and Antichrist trilogy, 1895).Resurrection of Gods. Leonardo da Vinci (book 2 of the Christ and Antichrist trilogy, 1900). , books.google Peter and Alexis (book 3 of the Christ and Antichrist trilogy, 1904) The Kingdom of the Beast Paul I (Pavel Pervy, 1908) Alexander the First (Аleksandr Pervy, 1913) December 14 (Chetyrnadtsatoye Dekabrya, 1918) Non-fiction On the Causes of the Decline and on the New Trends in Contemporary Russian Literature (1892) The Eternal Companions (1897) Tolstoy and Dostoevsky (1901) The Forthcoming Ham (Gryadushchu Ham, 1905) Sick Russia (Bolnaya Rossia, 1910) The Birth of Gods. Tutankhamen in Crete (1925) Messiah (1928) The Mystery of the Three: Egypt and Babylon (1925) Mystery of the West: Atlantis-Europe (1930) Unknown Jesus (1932) Jesus Manifest (1935) (1936, First American Edition) Plays Sylvio (1890) The Storm is Over (1893) Poppy Blossom (Makov Tzvet, 1908, with Gippius and Filosofov) The Last Saint (Posledny Svyatoy, 1908) Pavel the First (Pavel Pervy, 1908), part 1 of the Kingdom of the Beast trilogy. Joy Will Come (Radost Budet, 1916) The Romantics (Romantiki, 1916) Poetry Poems (1883–1888) Protopop Avvacum (1888) Vera (1890) The Family Idyll (Semeynaya idillia, 1890), Death (Smert, 1891) Symbols. Poems and Songs (1892) End of the Century'' (Konetz Veka, 1893) Notes References External links Biography Leon Trotsky Merezhkovsky, 1911 Alexander Men' Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Zinaida Gippius . Rykov, A."Twilight of the Silver Age. Politics and the Russian Religious Modernism in D.S.Merezhkovsky's novel Napoleon" in Studia Culturae 2016 № 1 (27), pp. 9–17 (in Russian) 1866 births 1941 deaths Writers from Saint Petersburg People from Sankt-Peterburgsky Uyezd Essayists from the Russian Empire Novelists from the Russian Empire Philosophers from the Russian Empire Poets from the Russian Empire Historical novelists Symbolist novelists Symbolist poets Soviet novelists Soviet male writers Saint Petersburg State University alumni Burials at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery