Homosexuality in Russia
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- For portraits of womem, please see: Lesbian history.
[edit] Portraits: Russia / Ritratti: Russia
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Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский, 1840-1893) in 1874. |
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Vyacheslav Ivanov (Вячеслав Иванович Иванов 1866-1949) in 1900. |
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Sergei Diaghilev (Сергей Павлович Дягилев, 1872-1929) by Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov, 1909. |
Sergei Diaghilev's grave in Venice. |
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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. |
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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. |