Vladimir Ananievich Zlobin (Владимир Ананьевич Злобин, 1894 (

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)-1967 (Paris)) was a Russian symbolist

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and secretary for

Zinaida Gippius Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius (; – 9 September 1945), a Russian poet, playwright, novelist, editor and religious thinker, became one of the major figures in Russian symbolism. She began writing at an early age, and by the time she met Dmitry ...

. As a student, Zlobin was a member of a poets' group where he met Gippius. He emigrated from

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in 1919 together with Gippius and her husband

Dmitriy Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky ( rus, Дми́трий Серге́евич Мережко́вский, p=ˈdmʲitrʲɪj sʲɪrˈɡʲejɪvʲɪtɕ mʲɪrʲɪˈʂkofskʲɪj; – December 9, 1941) was a Russian novelist, poet, religious thinke ...

, first to

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Dmitri Sergeivich Merezhkovsky and the Silver Age: the development of a revolutionary mentality
Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal. Martinus Nijhoff, 1975 and then to France where all three lived in one flat. Some scholars believe he had a sexual relationship with Gippius, although this is not mentioned in his memoir about Gippius, ''Difficult Soul''. In the correspondence between Gippius and Zlobin, the two played with gender ambiguity in the Russian language. He wrote about a fantasy of sleeping with her. In 1927-1928 he was the head of a journal "New Ship" together with Yuri Terapiano. He then worked on different projects for Gippius and helped to organise, in his Paris flat, "Sundays" for Russian poets and writers.

Works

*''A Difficult Soul: Zinaida Gippius.''

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, 1980. *Literature diary: Articles// Возрождение. — 1958—1960. — pp. 80–100.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Zlobin, Vladimir Male poets from the Russian Empire White Russian emigrants to France 1894 births 1967 deaths