Dmitri Vladimirovich Filosofov

Dmitri Filossofow (Léon Bakst 1897)

Dmitry Filosofov ( Russian Дмитрий Владимирович Философов , scientific. Transliteration Dmitrij Vladimirovič Filosofov ; March 26 * ^{. Jul} / 7. April  1872 ^greg. In Saint Petersburg , † 4. August 1940 in Otwock in Poland ) was a Russian writer , critic and Newspaper publisher .

Life

Dmitri Filossofow came from an old noble family. His father Vladimir Dmitrijewitsch Filossofow (1820-1894) was assistant to the Minister of War Dmitri Alexejewitsch Miljutin in the reform of the Russian army, 1861-1881 the first senior military prosecutor of the Russian Empire, since 1881 member of the State Council for the Department of Civil and Church Affairs, Imperial Secretary of State , Real Privy Councilor and Heraldmaster . His mother Anna Pavlovna b. Dyagileva was a philanthropist and active feminist . Through her, Sergei Pavlovich Dyagilev was Dmitri's cousin.

Dmitri Filossofow developed a strong interest in art and education during his high school years, so that he approached Alexander Nikolajewitsch Benois and Konstantin Andrejewitsch Somow . After graduating from school in 1890, he studied law at the University of St. Petersburg . After graduating in 1895, he studied at the University of Heidelberg . He then worked in the encryption department of the State Council and, from 1898, in the Petersburg Imperial Library, which later became the Russian National Library .

In 1897 Filossofow began to work as a journalist , in particular for Severny Westnik , education , workers' aid and the Ministry of Justice magazine . 1898–1904 he was editor of the literature department of the magazine Mir Iskusstwa and then headed the art criticism department there. During this time he became a friend and colleague of Dmitri Sergejewitsch Mereschkowski and Sinaida Hippius , where they felt like Trojebratstwo in the sense of a Trinity.

Together with Mereschkowski, Wassili Wassiljewitsch Rosanow and Valentin Ternavtsew Filossofow founded the Religious-Philosophical Assembly in St. Petersburg. He wrote constantly articles in the magazine Nowy Put ( The New Way ), which had been published since 1902 , which was shaped by Mereschkowski and Hippius and committed to symbolism , and was its editor-in-chief in the last year of its existence in 1904. 1906–1908 he lived with the Mereschkowski couple in Paris . After returning to Russia, he worked for the magazines Das Wort , The Speech , The Russian Idea and others. In the Religious-Philosophical Society in St. Petersburg / Petrograd he was secretary (1908), chairman (1909-1912) and deputy chairman (1912-1917).

After the October Revolution , Filosofov continued to work in the Petrograd library (1918-1919) and took part in the work of the Political Red Cross . In December 1919 he fled Petrograd with Mereschkowski, Hippius and the symbolism poet Vladimir Ananyevich Slobin on the pretext of being assigned to lectures in units of the Red Army . The refugees crossed the Polish - Bolshevik front in Shlobin Raion and reached Minsk in mid-January 1920 . They made their way to Vilnius with lectures and literary evenings and drove to Warsaw at the beginning of March . While Mereschkowski and Hippius drove on to Paris , disappointed with the Polish peace treaty , Filossofov, who had grown closer to the Social Revolutionary Boris Viktorovich Savinkov , stayed in Poland to continue the fight against the Bolsheviks .

Filossofow was now deputy chairman of the Russian Political Committee and the People's Union for the Protection of Homeland and Freedom as well as adviser to Józef Piłsudskis on Russian- Ukrainian issues (1921). He was the main editor of the newspaper Freiheit (1920–1921), published in Warsaw , Zur Freiheit! (1921–1932), Rumor (1932–1934) and editor in the Warsaw-Parisian magazine Das Schwert (1934–1939), which was converted into a Warsaw newspaper because of a dispute with Mereschkowski and Hippius. He worked with the literary group Tavern of Poets , and he was one of the leaders of the literary community of which he became honorary chairman. 1934-1936 he headed the Russian-Polish literary club house in Kolomna .

In these last years Filossofow came to the edge of the political and social life through editorial failures, the betrayal of Savinkov and the death of the companion and like-minded Mikhail Petrovich Arzybaschew , so that after 1936 he withdrew from the literary, social because of increasing age and illnesses and retired from political life.

Filossofov was buried in the Orthodox cemetery in Warsaw.

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• The Russian Resources of the Baltic States: Dmitrij Filossofow (1872-1940) (Russian, accessed September 5, 2015)
• Russian National Library : Filossofow Dmitri Vladimirovich (Russian, accessed September 5, 2015)
• John Stuart Durrant: The Warsaw Years DW Filossofows , cultural magazine Unser Erbe (Russian, accessed September 5, 2015)
• From aesthetics to ethics - From the letters from DW Filossofov , cultural magazine Unser Erbe (Russian, accessed on September 5, 2015)