The work of the great Russian writer and thinker Dmitry Sergeevich Merezhkovsky (1865–1941) is a bright page in the world culture of the 20th century. During the Soviet period, his books were inaccessible to domestic readers. Merezhkovsky’s “return” to his homeland coincided with the dramatic processes of modern Russian history, the essence of which can be understood by the works of a writer who possessed an amazing gift of historical providence. The book by Yu. V. Zobnin restores the history of this extraordinary life based on numerous documentary and artistic evidence, contrasting the numerous myths that arose around the figure of the writer with historical fact. The book uses archival materials, little-known publications, as well as periodicals of the Silver Age and Russian abroad.