Dmitry Vladimirovich Filosofov (Russian: ???´???? ?????´??????? ??????´???; 7 April [O.S.
26 March] 1872 in Saint Petersburg – 4 August 1940 in Otwock, Poland) was a Russian author, essayist, literary critic, religious thinker, newspaper editor and political activist, best known for his role in the influential early 1900s Mir Iskusstva circle and part of quasi-religious Troyebratstvo (The Brotherhood of Three), along with two of his closest friends and spiritual allies, Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Zinaida Gippius.Following the Bolshevik Revolution he emigrated to Poland.