Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius or Hippius:
20 November [O.S. 8 November] 1869 – 9 September 1945) .
Russian poet, playwright, novelist, editor and religious thinker, one of the major figures in Russian symbolism. The story of her marriage to Dmitry Merezhkovsky, which lasted 52 years, is described in her unfinished book Dmitry Merezhkovsky (Paris, 1951; Moscow, 1991).
December’s immaculate coldness feels warm. December feels like blood.
