Записные книжки к роману Дмитрия Мережковского «Воскресшие боги. Леонардо да Винчи»

The article “Dmitrii Merezhkovky’s Notebooks for the Novel Resurrected Gods: Leonardo da Vinci” provides a detailed examination of the corpus of literary sources the writer employed. The corpus comprises over thirty titles in both Russian and Western European languages, covering a wide range of topics from the life and works of Leonardo da Vinci to the history of Russian iconography. The article establishes the editions which Merezhkovsky cited and explains his selection criteria for the composition and nature of excerpts, as well as the organization of the sources within the notebooks.

Keywords: Merezhkovsky, notebooks, Leonardo da Vinci, trilogy, Christ and Antichrist, literary source, intertextuality, textual analysis, source study