THE RUSSIAN OUT LIST
Prince Boris (L) and Vasily III (R)
(Famous gay or bisexual Russians or Russians who slept
with people of the same sex or had strong romantic attachments, based partly
on K. K. Rotikov's Drugoi Peterburg and partly on Simon Karlinsky's
several articles (please check the works of both before attempting to contact
either). I decided to restrict this list to people who are safely dead,
but it will probably still raise a few hackles among conservative Slavists.)
Prince Boris (?-1015, as in Boris & Gleb)
George the Hungarian (beloved of Boris)
St. Moses the Hungarian (George's brother)
Grand Prince Vasily III (1479-1533, reigned from1505)
Ivan IV (The Terrible, 1530-1584, reigned from 1533)
Feodor Basmanov (oprichnik, patricide, and lover of Ivan IV!)
Dmitry the Pretender (aka False Dmitry, ?-1606)
Prince Ivan Khvorostinin (lover of the above Dmitry)
Ivan Miatlev
(1796-1844, poet)
Ivan Dmitriev (1760-1837, sentimentalist poet)
Philip Vigel (Wiegel, diplomat and friend of Pushkin)
M. A. Dondukov-Korsakov (V. P. of the Academy of Sciences in Pushkin's day)
Count S. S. Uvarov (Minister of Education)
Peter Yakovlevich Chaadaev (author of Philosophical Letters)
Prince Peter Mikhailovich Volkonsky (adjutant of Alexander I)http://allmusic.dj.net.tw/pletnev/bio_e.HTM
Prince Peter Vladimirovich Dolgorukov (genealogist)
Count Alexander Ivanovich Sollogub (philanthropist)
Konstantin
Batiushkov (1787-1855, writer)
Nikolai
Gogol (1809-1852, writer)
Alexander Ivanov (1806-1858, painter)
Konstantin Leontiev (1831-1891, philosopher, critic, and writer)
Nikolai Przhevalsky (1839-1888, explorer and writer)
Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich (1857-1905, brother of Alexander III)
and the Seven Gay Grand Dukes! (see Karlinsky)
Grand
Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanov (1858-1915, poet KR)
Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich (brother of Tsar Nicholas I)
Alexander Khristoforovich Vostokov (linguist, slavist, early 19th C)
Prince Vladimir Petrovich Meshchersky (publisher)
Nikolai Fedorovich Burdukov (lived with Meshchersky)
Alexei
Apukhtin (1841-1893, poet)
Sergei Ivanovich Donaurov (poet)
Lucian Adamovich Linevsky (b. 1865, lover of Donaurov)
Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-93,
composer)
Modest Tchaikovsky (librettist brother of Peter)
Vladimir (Bob) Davydov (suicide 1906, Tchaikovsky's nephew)
Modest Musorgsky (1839-81, composer)
Arseny Arkadievich Golenishchev-Kutuzov (poet, Musorgsky's librettist)
Alexander Fedorovich Shenin (ed. of encyclopedia, author of Eros Russe)
Anna Yevreinova (1844-1919, publisher)
Ivan Kushchevsky (1847-76)
Polyxena Soloviova (1867-1924, poet)
Lidiia Charskaya (writer)
Count Vladimir Nikolaevich Lamsdorf (diplomat, d. 1907)
Prince Valerian Sergeevich Obolensky (lived with Lamsdorf)
Mikhail Kuzmin (1872-1936, writer)
Vsevolod Gavrilovich Knyazev (1891-1913 hussar poet, lover of Kuzmin)
Pavlusha Maslov (rent boy lover of Kuzmin)
Volodya Ruslov (the Russian "Dorian Gray")
Sergei Poznyakov (friend of Kuzmin & Somov)
Yuri Yurkun (poet, 1895-1938, Kuzmin's last lover)
Andrei Nikolaevich Egunov (classicist, translated Plato)
Sergei Sudeikin (1884-1946, painter)
Nikolai Nikolaevich Sapunov (painter, drowned 1912)
Prince Sergei Mikhailovich Volkonsky (connected with Brodyachaya Sobaka)
Georgy Chicherin (1872-1936, People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs)
Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952, politician, feminist)
Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948,
filmmaker)
Sergei Diaghilev
(1872-1929, impresario)
Konstantin Somov (1869-1939, painter)
Mefodii Lukyanov (Somov's lover 1910-32)
Petr Petrovich Potemkin (author of journal Satirikon)
Dmitry Filosofov (writer)
Walter Nouvel (music critic)
Ivan Alexeevich Likhachev (philologist, critic)
Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich (grandson of Nicholas I, shot 1919)
Felix Felixovich Yusupov
Jr. (murdered Rasputin)
Dmitry Pavlovich Purishkevich (murdered Rasputin)
Konstantine Igumnov (1873-1948, pianist)
Konstantin Dmitrievich Nabokov (diplomat, uncle of writer Nabokov)
Vasily Ivanovich Rukavishnikov (diplomat, uncle of writer Nabokov)
Sergei Nabokov (brother of the writer)
Zinaida Gippius
(1869-1945, poet)
Vaslav Nijinsky
(1889-1950, dancer)
Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866-1949, poet)
Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal (1866-1907, writer)
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (1878-1939,
painter)
Nikolai
Kliuev (1887-1937, poet)
Nikolai Arkhipov (novelist, lover of Kliuev)
Anatoly Nikiforovich Yar-Kravchenko (painter, lover of Kliuev)
Sergei Esenin (1895-1925,
poet)
Anatoly Mariengof (1897-1962, poet)
Metropolitan Serafim (Leonid Mikhailovich Chichagin)
Dmitry Alexandrovich Brianchaninov (Archimandrite Ignaty)
Sophia Parnok
(1885-1933, poet)
Marina
Tsvetaeva (1892-1941, poet)
Nikolai Ezhov (?? murderous head of NKVD)
Ryurik Ivnev (1891-1981, poet)
Vsevolod Leonidovich Pastukhov (pianist, writer, lover of Ivnev)
Akim Lvovich Volynsky (critic, author of Life of Leonardo da Vinci)
Anatoly Steiger (1907-1944, poet)
Georgy Adamovich (1894-1972, critic and poet)
Valery Pereleshin (1913-1992, poet)
Zinovy Korogodsky (theater director)
Yury Mikhailovich Yuriev (d. 1948, actor, gay center of Leningrad life)
Andrei Kolmogorov (1903-1987, mathematician)
Sviatoslav Richter (1915-1997, pianist)
Yevgeny Kharitonov (1941-1981, writer)
Rudolf
Nureev (1938-1993, dancer)
Sergei Paradjanov (1924-1990, filmmaker)
David Yakovlevich Dar (writer)
Gennady Nikolaevich Trifonov (b. 1945, writer)
Roman Grigorievich Viktiuk
(b. 1936, theater director)
Yury Bogatyrev (actor)
Gennady N. Shmakov (literary scholar, died of AIDS)
Mikhail Pletnev (b.
1957, pianist)
FOREIGNERS IN RUSSIA:
Hippolyte Auget (French, followed Russian officers to Russia
in 1812)
Georges-Charles d'Anthes (French, killed Pushkin in a duel)
Baron von Heckeren (Dutch ambassador, adoptive father of d'Anthes)
The Marquis de Custine (French writer, lived with a Pole, Ignacy Gurovski)
John Reed (??American, 1887-1920, journalist, writer)
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