Spheres of Aesthetic and Ethical in Comprehension of D.S. Merezhkovsky-symbolist
The article discusses the interrelation between ethics and aesthetics in the works of the older symbolists based on the texts by Merezhkovsky and Briusov where the author aims to highlight the similarities and differences in their interpretation. At the same time, despite all those similarities and differences between the judgments of both authors, who marked the beginning of the symbolist era in Russia, a really important fact is that they both reconsider the issue of the interaction of aesthetics and ethics - at the time when aesthetics strongly dominated ethics, including the evaluation criteria.