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pronouns она and ты. She can, however, approach her by way of her earthly
manifestations, the trinity of Maria, Teresa, and Solveig. Together, these human
incarnations create a larger three-fold unity, a Three-in-One (Все они—ты Одна).
Together, they encompass the multiple roles of the feminine—Bride, Mother, and Sister.
Gippius's choice of Solveig, the heroine of Ibsen's dramatic poem Peer Gynt, for
her earthly trinity continues to reveal her own personal history. Gippius compared
Solveig's faithful love for Peer Gynt throughout his roguish travels to her own constant
love for Filosofov after their final split in the 1920's. At the end of Ibsen's play, when
Peer Gynt asks where his true self has been during all the years of his misdaventures,
Solveig, both his mother and his bride, replies: "Here—in my faith, my hope, and in my
love." 133
In Коричневая тетрадь, Gippius, despite her doubts and despair, wanted to
provide the same answer to Filosofov: Не знаю, дойду ли до этого, но хочу дойти. До
полной реализации того, что ты не погиб, что ты живешь—со мной, в моем сердце
(больном), именно ты единственный, ты сам. «Где был я, я сам?—тревожно, в
роковую минуту, спрашивает Петр Гюнт. И для него, как для тебя есть это место.
Не бойся. 134
After she learned about Filosofov's death in 1940 she again recalled
Solveig, envying her pure faith: Чего бы проще, кажется, говорить, как Сольвейг:
«Где б ни был ты—Господь тебя храни,/А если ты уж там—к тебе приду я»... Да,
приду. А если не приду—ведь я этого не узнаю... Но мысль, что не приду и не
узнаю... Gippius longed to believe as clearly as Solveig, yet doubts constantly tormented
her. While her faith was often in question, her love was not: вера—всякая, даже не моя
133 Henrik Ibsen, Peer Gynt, trans. Gerry Bamman and Irene B. Berman (New York: Theatre
Communications Group, 1992), 238.
134 Gippius, Dnevniki, vol. 2, 353. Emphasis Gippius's.
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