The article studies D. Merezhkovsky’s literary and public activities in Warsaw in 1920. The author discusses forms of the writer’s involvement in the literary and cultural life of the Polish capital, his relations with emigrants and the Polish public. The article seeks to analyze how Merezhkovsky contributed to local periodicals. Of special interest are the recenzes that appeared in the Polish press in response to publications of Merezhkovsky’s works and stagings of his plays.