Andrey Avinoff: A Russian Émigré Artist, Gay Man, and Scientist
How Orthodox Christianity, butterflies, a scientific career, and male eroticism came together.
Queerography
Russian Poet Ivan Dmitriev, Boy Favourites, and Same-Sex Desire His the Fables 'The Two Doves' and 'The Two Friends'
A friend of Karamzin and Derzhavin, minister of justice, and a fable writer whose “friendship” turns into male love.
Sergei Romanov: A Homosexual Member of the Imperial Family
The life of Grand Duke – a “white marriage” without children, homosexuality, service in Moscow, and a tragic death.
The Diary of the Moscow Bisexual Merchant Pyotr Medvedev in the 1860s
His escapades and self-reflection.
Grigory Teplov and the Sodomy Case in 18th-Century Russia
Nine serfs accuse their master of rape.