What with the Socialist movement rising there and anti-Russian emigration feelings spurred by the President Paul Doumer's murder in 1932, France for them felt like a hostile place to stay at.
Zinaida Yusupova | Zinaida's salon in Moscow, as painted by Grigoriy Myasoyedov | Zinaida Greceanîi Cabinet | Zinaida Gippius |
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.