Merezhkovsky’s Neo-Christianity of the Third Testament: From Symbolist Historiosophy to Radical Politics

This article places Dmitry Merezhkovsky’s Chiliastic concept of Three Testaments into a unified structure. The author analyzes the writer’s integral system Christological, anthropological, and historiosophicidiomyths meta-symbols. He studies religious, philosophical, aesthetic genesis semantic transformation traditional theological constructions doctrinal compilation Russian fin de siècle culture dominant elements. It is shown how religious Modernist mythmaking alters political reality in mind draws him towards radical ideologies extreme left right.