Severny Vestnik
"The Death of the Gods" (according to critic Dina Magomedova) was "the first in a long series of Merezhkovsky's books rejected, violated by censors or confiscated by the police." As the novel was finished, none of the Russian magazines wanted to have anything to do with it, according to Gippius. In 1895 "Severny Vestnik" published it, but not in its original form and under another title, editor Akim Volynsky having subjected the text to severe editing.