THE STUDY OF THE CHRISTIAN CODE PROBLEM (IN THE LITERARY WORKS CREATED BY DMITRY MEREZHKOVSKY DURING HIS EMIGRATION YEARS (THE 1920S AND 1930S)

The article discusses the formation of the chiliastic concept of three Testaments in the works of Merezhkovsky dating back to the largest western heresiarch of the 12th century, the Calabrian monk Joachim of Floris. Merezhkovsky embodies a vivid and tragic example of the direct logical connection between the modernist heretizm and its orientation towards the building of life with utopianism, and in the limit ? totalitarianism.