“What Ibsen in his drama “Caesar and the Galilean” calls the “third kingdom” found its apostle in the person of one of the most prominent representatives of young Russia, in the person of a writer, remarkable as an artist and original as a critic. This apostle is Dmitry Sergeevich Merezhkovsky. Like a true Slav, he combines in his face thoughtful insight with vague mysticism. Just like Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, he is not satisfied with art for art's sake. He feels a religious preacher in himself and has no doubt that it is Russia that will have the destiny to give humanity the messiah of the future, a messiah who will resolve all religious quests and merge Hellas with Palestine, paganism with Christianity, embodying them in that highest unity in which he will find satisfaction and heart and mind..."