Homosexuality in Russia
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[edit] Portraits: Russia / Ritratti: Russia
 Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский, 1840-1893) in 1874. |
 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). |
 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). |
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 Tchaikovsky's grave at Alexander Nevsky monastry. |
 In Venice. |
 Vyacheslav Ivanov (Вячеслав Иванович Иванов 1866-1949) in 1900. |
 Vyacheslav Ivanov, 1906. |
 Sergei Diaghilev (Сергей Павлович Дягилев, 1872-1929) by Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov, 1909. |
 Sergei Diaghilev's grave in Venice. |
 On Sergei Diaghilev's grave. |
 Dancer Vaslav Fomich Nijinsky (Вацлав Фомич Нижинский) (1890-1950) in 1907. |
 Nijinsky in 1910 by Eugène Druet. |
 Leon Bakst: Nijinsky in the ballet Afternoon of a Faun, 1912. For more images of Nijinsky see here |
 Léonide Massine (1895-1979) in 1914, by Léon Bakst. |
 Sergei Yesenin (Сергей Александрович Есенин 1895-1925), 1914. |
 Sergei Yesenin and his lover Nikolaj Kljuev, ca. 1917. |
 Sergej Esenin / Sergei Yesenin. |
 Sergei Yesenin and Isadora Duncan, 1923. |
 Sergei Yesenin and Isadora Duncan, 1923. |
 Sergei Yesenin, 1925. A bisexual, Esenin wisely helped his carreer through important men first, and important women afterwards. |
 Sergei Yesenin on death bed (1925). |
 Mikhail Kuzmin (Михаил Алексеевич Кузмин 1873-1936), author of first Russian novel about homosexuality, Krylya. (1909). |
 Boris Kochno, ballet director, beloved of Karol Szymanowski and Sergej Diaghilev. |
 Nikolai Yezhov (Николай Иванович Ежов), NKVD boss during 1930s. At his trial he was accused of being a homosexual. |
 Gay show in Saint Petersburg, 1900s photo by Karl Bulla |
 Gay party in Saint Petersburg, 1900s photo by Karl Bulla |
 Stamp from 1968 |
