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

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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"^[vague] 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

На других языках

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- [en] Vladimir Zlobin

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[ru] Злобин, Владимир Ананьевич

Владимир Ананьевич Злобин (9 [21] июля 1894 — 9 декабря 1967) — русский поэт и критик, более известный как секретарь и хранитель архива Зинаиды Гиппиус и Дмитрия Мережковского.

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