
Saint Moses the Hungarian – One of the First Queer Figures in Russian History?
The life of a monk who rejected marriage, was castrated, and became a saint, and how Rozanov, Slavists, and other scholars read it.
Biographies from Russian queer history: rulers, nobles, artists, writers, and other LGBT figures.

The life of a monk who rejected marriage, was castrated, and became a saint, and how Rozanov, Slavists, and other scholars read it.

A Caucasian childhood, scholarship, liberalism, and involvement in the murder of Rasputin against a life without marriage or children.

How Orthodox Christianity, butterflies, a scientific career, and male eroticism came together.

A friend of Karamzin and Derzhavin, minister of justice, and a fable writer whose “friendship” turns into male love.

His homosexuality, childless “white marriage,” service in Moscow, and death.

Poor relations with his wife, admiration for young men, onanism with friends, and political views.

Nine serfs accuse their master of rape.