About the book: year / Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius - an amazing and incomprehensible phenomenon of the "Silver Age". Poetess, writer, playwright and critic (under the pseudonym Anton Krainy), this amazing woman gained fame as the “Madonna of Decadence.” For a long time, the works of Z. Gippius were practically unknown in the writer’s homeland, which she left during the Civil War. This edition includes the novel "The Devil's Doll", short stories and a novella, as well as a selection of poems and a number of literary critical articles.