摘要：The aim of the article is to reveal dynamics in interpre-tation of the key ideas of Nietzsche's philosophy, which was typical for the Russian religious philosophy of the late 19th –early 20th centuries by the case study of D.S. Merezhkovsky's Christ and Antichrist trilogy. The Nietzschean theme of the trilogy is con-sidered in the context of the crisis period of the Silver Age of Russian literature and culture. It is proved, that just the transitional, crisis nature of these period pre-conditioned the widespread mythologization of the Nietzsche's philosophy. By hermeneutic analysis of the Christ and Antichrist trilogy the authors distin-guish a number of stages, which represent a dynamic general model of meditation on the Nietzsche'sphi-losophy. The model can be equally applied both to the individual original understanding of D.S. Merezhkov-sky and substantially to the Nietzschean tradition in general, which emerged in the Silver Age
