Nikolai Minsky

[1] In 1889, he began work on the book With the Light of Conscience, employing a deliberately pompous tone to present its theory of "meonism" (me on being Greek for "nonexistent").

In 1900, Dmitri Merezhkovsky, Minsky, Zinaida Gippius, Vasily Rozanov, and others founded the Religious-Philosophical Society in Saint Petersburg.

These ideas represented the cult of beauty and enjoyment and declared war on the public tendencies that threatened to damage the "cleanliness" of artistic creation.

A minor scandal was recorded involving Minsky after he instigated a ritual on May 2, 1905 at his home in Saint Petersburg.

It involved drinking the "donated" blood of Zinaida Vengerova, which was intended as a protoecumenical bonding ceremony.