Dmitry Merezhkovsky entered literature as a poet and translator, tried himself as a critic and playwright, his trilogy “Christ and Antichrist”, studies “Leo Tolstoy and Dostoevsky” and “Gogol and the Devil” (1906) gained enormous popularity. But all his life he was in search of that final form in which he could put his own philosophical ideas. Merezhkovsky was convinced that the Gospel was not read correctly and Jesus was not understood, that beyond the Old and New Testaments, humanity awaits the Third Testament, the Kingdom of the Spirit. He looked for confirmation in world and Russian history, in the works of Russian writers, that this new Kingdom is coming, that the future is giving the present its signs about the future End and transformation. And if you look at the writer’s creative path, you can see that he was all directed towards the book “Jesus the Unknown”, it had to end with it, become the peak to which he walked long and persistently.