Background
Vladimir Gippius was born on July 15, 1876, in Khimki, Moscow City, Russian Federation. Vladimir's family was descended from an old family of natives of Germany, to which belonged Zinaida Gippius.
Saint Petersburg State University
critic teacher prose writer poet
Vladimir Gippius was born on July 15, 1876, in Khimki, Moscow City, Russian Federation. Vladimir's family was descended from an old family of natives of Germany, to which belonged Zinaida Gippius.
In 1895, Vladimir Gippius graduated from the 6th Saint Petersburg State Gymnasium where he made friends with Aleksandr Dobrolyubov.
As a student of the faculty of history and Philology of Saint Petersburg University, Vladimir Gippius published a collection of poems Songs (1897). In 1912, he published the book Return (under the pseudonym Vladimir Bestuzhev), in 1915 - the collection Night in the stars (under the pseudonym Vladimir Neledinsky). In 1916, the Almanac of the muses published his poem Love and published the collection Yearning of the spirit. Vladimir Gippius taught language arts at the Stoyunina Gymnasium, the First Saint Petersburg Gymnasium, and the Tenishev school, were among his students were O. Mandelstam (who portrayed the teacher in the memoirs The Noise of time) and V. Nabokov. Vladimir Gippius took part in meetings of the "poets' Workshop".
Together with Aleksander Dobrolyubov, Vladimir Gippius came to the justification of decadence as a worldview, to the apology of extreme aestheticism and psychological emancipation.
Later, Vladimir Gippius admitted: "In religion, I became an atheist, aesthetics won over religiosity. Political indifference was complete. Morality was completely denied, without concessions."
Indifferent to politics.
Vladimir Gippius opposed the excessive rationalization and intellectualization of grammar school education, for "the development of individual strength, based on the development of imagination and feeling."
Quotes from others about the person
Semyon Vengerov: "He is one of the most outstanding teachers of Russian literature in St. Petersburg, one of those unforgettable students of teachers who can be called Granovsky high school."