Lesbian and Gay Chastushkas from 20th-Century Russian Collections
Folk ditties about same-sex love, from satirical to obscene.
Queerness of Russian Folklore
Muzhik-Maslenitsa and the Russian Custom of Dressing a Man as a Woman
Cross-dressing at early 20th-century Maslenitsa festivities and the “man dressed as a woman.”
Uncensored Russian Folklore. Same-Sex and Erotic Motifs in Afanasyev’s “Russian Secret Tales”
“The Fool,” “The Soldier and the Priest,” and other 19th-century tales of sex and homosexuality.
Mikhailo Potyk, the Cross-Dressing Hero of a Russian Bylina
Why the epic hero twice puts on “women’s clothing.”