Homoerotic Themes in Taşlıcalı Yahya Bey’s Ottoman Poem “Shah and the Beggar”
A rare example of 16th-century Turkish literature in which a man falls in love with another man.
Early modern period
Peter the Great’s Sexuality: Wives, Mistresses, Men, and His Connection to Menshikov
Was Russia’s first emperor bisexual? Or did he love only women?
Russian Empress Anna Leopoldovna and the Maid of Honour Juliana: Possibly the First Documented Lesbian Relationship in Russian History
"... she spends most of her time in the apartments of her favourite, Mengden."
Homosexuality in the 18th-Century Russian Empire — Europe-Imported Homophobic Laws and How They Were Enforced
From Peter the Great to Alexander I.
The Homosexuality of Russian Tsars Vasily III and Ivan IV the Terrible”
And who Fyodor Basmanov was.
Grigory Teplov and the Sodomy Case in 18th-Century Russia
Nine serfs accuse their master of rape.