Knight for spinning. Merezhkovsky D.S.

It is surprising that Dmitry Merezhkovsky, a serious philosopher, a symbolist poet, a literary critic and the author of historical novels, managed to create such an easy, charmingly frivolous cycle, under which the great Great Giovanni Bokkaccio would love to sign up.

in the Italian novels, Merezhkovsky’s talent was opened from the unexpected side: in the stories stylized under the Middle Ages there is a place for romantic knightly love and insidious legends of cheerful youths, and rude jokes in the style of “decameron” are adjacent to philosophical thoughts, performed by longing for loneliness and fear of death.