Alexander Golitsyn: A Homosexual Man at the Head of Church and Education in the Russian Empire
The story of a minister who promoted mysticism, spread the Bible, and became the target of homophobic intrigues under Alexander I.
Biographies of Russian LGBT People
Biographies from Russian LGBT history: rulers, nobles, artists, writers, and other LGBT figures.
Aleksey Apukhtin: Homosexual, Poet, and Friend of Tchaikovsky
Also the author of popular romances and poems that do not indicate the addressee's gender.
Saint Moses the Hungarian – One of the First Queer Figures in Russian History?
The life of a monk who rejected marriage, was castrated, and became a saint – and how Rozanov, Slavists, and other scholars interpreted it.
The Possible Homosexuality of Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich of the Romanov Family
A Caucasian childhood, scholarship, liberalism, and involvement in the case of Rasputin's murder — against the backdrop of a life without marriage or children.
Andrey Avinoff: A Russian Émigré Artist, Gay Man, and Scientist
How Orthodox Christianity, butterflies, a scientific career, and male eroticism came together.
Ivan Dmitriev, Young Favourites, and Same-Sex Desire in the Fables 'The Two Doves' and 'The Two Friends'
A friend of Karamzin and Derzhavin, minister of justice, and a fable writer where friendship turns into male love.
Sergei Alexandrovich Romanov: A Homosexual Member of the Imperial Family
The life of the Grand Duke — his homosexuality, childless "white marriage," service in Moscow, and death.
The Diary of Pyotr Medvedev, a Bisexual Moscow Merchant, 1854–1863
Poor relations with his wife, admiration for young men, onanism with friends, and political views.
Grigory Teplov and the Sodomy Case in 18th-Century Russia
Nine serfs accuse their master of rape.
Vladimir Lamsdorf: A Homosexual at the Head of the Russian Foreign Ministry under Nicholas II
Forty years in the ministry, a romance with the head of the chancellery, the nickname “Madame” from Nicholas II, and a caning on Morskaya Street.