Zinaida Hippius, who died in 1945atthe age of 76, was a poet, novelist, and essayist. Her works had a remarkable impact upon the spiritual and cultural life of St. Petersburg and Paris during the first two decades of the twentieth century, the Silver Age of Russian poetry. In Soviet publications today, however, she is called a "Decadent," a counterrevolutionary, and an enemy of Communist society. Miss Pachmuss's brilliantly...