On the Textological Findings and Achievements in the New Academic Collected Works by D. S. Merezhkovsky. Review of: Merezhkovsky, D. S. (Author), Korostelev, O. A., Andrushchenko, E. A., Zhurbina, A. V. (Eds.). (2017). Sobranie sochineniy [Collected Works] (Vols. 1–20). (Vol. 14: Tayna Trekh: Egipet i Vavilon. Tayna Zapada: Atlantida — Evropa [The Mystery of the Three: Egypt and Babylon. The Mystery of the West: Atlantis — Europe]). Moscow: Dmitry Sechin. 807 p

• Main Author: Anton Vladimirovich Filatov
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Ural Federal University Press 2018-06-01
• Series: Известия Уральского федерального университета. Серия 2: Гуманитарные науки
• Subjects: Д. С. Мережковский; «Тайна Трех»; литература русской эмиграции; эмигрантская критика; религиозная философия; комментарий; текстология.
• Online Access: https://journals.urfu.ru/index.php/Izvestia2/article/view/3239
• ISSN: 2227-2283; 2587-6929

Review of: Merezhkovsky, D. S. (Author), Korostelev, O. A., Andrushchenko, E. A., Zhurbina, A. V. (Eds.). (2017). Sobranie sochineniy [Collected Works] (Vols. 1–20). (Vol. 14: Tayna Trekh: Egipet i Vavilon. Tayna Zapada: Atlantida — Evropa [The Mystery of the Three: Egypt and Babylon. The Mystery of the West: Atlantis — Europe]). Moscow: Dmitry Sechin. 807 p.   This review examines the content and structure of volume 14 of the 20-volume academic collected works by D. S. Merezhkovsky. The book incorporates two parts of the trilogy The Mystery of the Three, written during the emigration period: The Mystery of the Three: Egypt and Babylon (1925) and The Mystery of the West: Atlantis — Europe (1930). The academic reference apparatus of the book including a commentary, two afterword articles and an index of names has considerable textological value. The commentary provides the history of the publication of works and their perception in foreign criticism as well as detailed explanations for the texts. In his afterword article The Main Trilogy of D. S. Merezhkovsky, O. A. Korostelev considers the issue of the trilogy genre and its antinomical evaluation in the critique of emigration. In the afterword article The ‘Untimely’ Book, E. A. Andrushchenko defines the place of The Mystery of the Three among the writer’s works and the artistic concept of the trilogy. The name index lists the names of personalities found both in Merezhkovsky’s texts and in the reference apparatus of the volume. The book contains the most comprehensive survey and analysis of the sources, which the writer used while creating the trilogy. The book is a valuable contribution to the field of textological studies of Merezhkovsky’s works.