Lot Essay
Before leaving Russia in 1920, Merezhovsky had written a trilogy of historical novels as well as major critical studies, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky and Gogol and the Devil.
Details
DMITRI MEREZHKOVSKY (1866-1941)
Autograph manuscript in Russian, on lined paper, signed and amended, 1926, 9pp, 4°, entitled 'Psalom tsarya Akhenaton (Tsar Akhnaton's [Amenhotep's] Psalm)', a comparison of the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep IV as 'the first individual in history' and Moses 'as the first individual in religion', concluding with the first Russian translation of a psalm by Amenhotep, strikingly similar to David's psalm 103 ['Bless the Lord, o my soul'] (thumb soiling and wear to edges).
Autograph manuscript in Russian, on lined paper, signed and amended, 1926, 9pp, 4°, entitled 'Psalom tsarya Akhenaton (Tsar Akhnaton's [Amenhotep's] Psalm)', a comparison of the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep IV as 'the first individual in history' and Moses 'as the first individual in religion', concluding with the first Russian translation of a psalm by Amenhotep, strikingly similar to David's psalm 103 ['Bless the Lord, o my soul'] (thumb soiling and wear to edges).
Literature
Published in the Parisian magazine Zvena (Link).