HIPPIUS, ZINAIDA (1869– ) , Russian poet and prose writer, was born on Nov. 8, 1869 at Belev, in the Tula province. She married Dmitry Mereshkovsky (q.v.) in 1889 and went to live in St. Petersburg (Leningrad). Later she settled in Paris. Hippius was one of the leading poets of the Russian symbolist movement of the 'nineties and her poetry bears the usual char acter of the movement : the cult of beauty, mysticism and indi vidualism. The influence of Nietzsche's philosophy is also apparent as in the famous line "I love myself as I love God," which be came the slogan of the Russian "decadents." Her later poetry shows the influence of the neo-Christian theories of Mereshkovsky but at the same time reveals deep individual and emotional power. Her prose works were much inferior to her poetry, but under the pseudonym of "Anton Krainy" she was known as a trenchant literary critic. Among her works are Revolution and Violence (French trans., 1907) ; The Green Ring (Eng. trans. by S. S. Koteliansky, 1920) ; My Journal under the Terror (French trans., 192I).