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2 unusual facts about Dmitry Filosofov


Dmitry Filosofov

Sharing Merezhlovskys' hostility towards Bolshevist Russia, in December 1919 he fled the country but refused to follow the couple down to Paris.

The son of the feminist and philanthropist Anna Filosofova, Dmitry Filosofov was educated first in the private K. May's gymnasium (where he first met Alexandre Benois and Konstantin Somov), then in the Saint Petersburg University, studying law.


Józef Czapski

He reached St. Petersburg, where he met, among others, Dmitry Filosofov, Zinaida Gippius, Aleksey Remizov and Dmitry Merezhkovsky who later became his long-time friend.


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