Vladimir Zlobin

Vladimir Ananievich Zlobin (Владимир Ананьевич Злобин, 1894 (Saint Petersburg)-1967 (Paris)) was a Russian symbolist poet and secretary for Zinaida Gippius.[1]

As a student, Zlobin was a member of a poets' group where he met Gippius.[2] He emigrated from Russia in 1919 together with Gippius and her husband Dmitriy Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky, first to Poland[3] and then to France where all three lived in one flat. Some scholars believe he had a sexual relationship with Gippius, although this is not mentioned in his memoir about Gippius, Difficult Soul.[2] In the correspondence between Gippius and Zlobin, the two played with gender ambiguity in the Russian language. He wrote about a fantasy of sleeping with her.[2]

In 1927-1928 he was the head of a journal "New Ship" together with Yuri Terapiano. He then worked on different projects for Gippius and helped to organise, in his Paris flat, "Sundays" for Russian poets and writers.

Works
  • A Difficult Soul: Zinaida Gippius. University of California Press, 1980.
  • Literature diary: Articles// Возрождение. — 1958—1960. — pp. 80–100.

References
  1. http://magazines.russ.ru/nov_yun/1999/6/raritet.html
  2. Matich, Olga (2005-08-01). Erotic Utopia: The Decadent Imagination in Russia's Fin de Siècle. Univ of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 9780299208837. Retrieved 26 October 2013.
  3. Dmitri Sergeivich Merezhkovsky and the Silver Age: the development of a revolutionary mentality Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal. Martinus Nijhoff, 1975 ISBN 9024716764
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