{{Short description|Russian writer, critic, editor, and activist (1872–1940)}} {{Infobox person | native_name = Дмитрий Философов | native_name_lang = ru | image = Dmitry philosophov bakst.jpg | image_size = 200px | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Dmitry Vladimirovich Filosofov | birth_date = {{OldStyleDate|7 April|1872|26 March}} | birth_place = Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire | death_date = {{death date and age|1940|8|4|1872|4|7|df=y}} | death_place = Otwock, German-occupied Poland | occupation = {{hlist|Literary critic|essayist|editor|political activist}} | education = | alma_mater = Saint Petersburg State University | years_active = 1897–1940 | children = | relatives = {{hlist|Anna Filosofova (mother)|Sergei Diaghilev (cousin)}} }}
'''Dmitry Vladimirovich Filosofov'''{{Family name footnote|Vladimirovich|Filosofov|lang=Eastern Slavic}} ({{langx|ru|Дми́трий Влади́мирович Филосо́фов}}; {{OldStyleDate|7 April|1872|26 March}} – 4 August 1940) was a Russian author, essayist, literary critic, religious thinker, newspaper editor and political activist, best known for his role in the influential early 1900s ''Mir Iskusstva'' circle and part of quasi-religious ''Troyebratstvo'' (The Brotherhood of Three), along with two of his closest friends and spiritual allies, Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Zinaida Gippius.<ref name="russian sources">{{cite web | author = | date = | url = http://www.russianresources.lt/archive/Filo/Filo_0.html | title = Dmitry Filosofov | publisher = www.russianresources.lt | accessdate = 2010-08-13 | archive-date = 2009-02-26 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090226031507/http://www.russianresources.lt/archive/Filo/Filo_0.html | url-status = dead }}</ref>
Following the Bolshevik Revolution he emigrated to Poland.
==Biography== The son of feminist and philanthropist Anna Filosofova and Vladimir Dmitriyevich Filosofov, a powerful official in the Ministry of War and Defence, Dmitry Filosofov was educated first in the private Karl May School (where he first met Alexandre Benois and Konstantin Somov), then in the Saint Petersburg University, studying law. After a couple of years spent abroad, he started working as a journalist, writing for ''Severny Vestnik'' and ''Obrazovanye''. With the inception of ''Mir Iskusstva'' magazine, Filosofov became the editor - first of literary, then of literary criticism sections. It was at this time that his close friendship with Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Zinaida Gippius began; soon he joined them to form "Troyebratstvo", a quasi-religious group which some saw as a domestic sect, claiming to aim at renovating the Christian values along the new, modernist lines.<ref name="russian sources"/>
Along with Merezhkovskys he was one of the initiators and practical organizers of - first the Religious-Philosophical Society,<ref name="enc_world_bio">{{cite web | author =| date = | url =http://www.bookrags.com/biography/dmitry-sergeyevich-merezhkovsky-dlb/| title = Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky| publisher = Encyclopedia of World Biography | accessdate = 2010-10-13}}</ref> then the ''Novy Put'' magazine, which he edited in 1904, the last year of its existence. Years 1906-1908 he spent with Merezhkovskys in Paris; when back in Russia he continued writing, contributing to ''Slovo'' and ''Russkaya Mysl'' among others.<ref name="russian sources"/>
Sharing Merezhkovskys' hostility towards Bolshevist Russia, in December 1919 he fled the country but refused to follow the couple down to Paris. Instead, along with Boris Savinkov, the notorious terrorist-turned-novelist he struck up a friendship with, Filosofov chose to stay in Warsaw to begin working on the reformation of the White Army on the territory of Poland. He was a coordinator of Russian Political Committee, one of the leaders of the People's Union for the Defence of Motherland and Freedom, and Józef Piłsudski's counsellor. Choosing to stay in Poland, but visiting Paris occasionally, Filosofov edited numerous Russian immigrant newspapers, including ''Svoboda'' (Freedom, 1920–1921), ''Za Svobodu'' (1921–1932), ''Molva'' (People's Talk, 1932–1934), co-edited Paris-Warsaw magazine ''Myech'' (Sword, 1934–1939).<ref name="russian sources"/>
Dmitry Filosofov died in Otwock near Warsaw on 4 August 1940 and is buried at the Orthodox Cemetery in Warsaw.
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