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.
Russia
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?
The Diary of the Moscow Bisexual Merchant Pyotr Medvedev in the 1860s
His escapades and self-reflection.
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 a Sodomy Case
Nine serfs accuse their master of rape.
Uncensored Russian Folklore: Highlights from Afanasyev’s “Russian Secret Tales”
“Sowing Dicks,” “The Fool,” and “The Soldier and the Priest.”
Homosexuality in Ancient and Medieval Russia
Same-sex relationships and how they were viewed from Kievan Rus to Peter the Great.
A Cross-Dressing Epic Hero: the Russian Folk Epic of Mikhaylo Potyk, Where He Disguises Himself as a Woman
Why does the hero put on “women’s dresses”?