Mikhail Kuzmin

Russian poet, novelist. His novel Wings was the first Russian novel centred on homosexuality. Kuzmin met poet Yuri Yurkun in 1913. The 2 lived together with Yurkun's mother, + wife, Olga. Their relationship lasted until Kuzmin's death in 1936. Yurkun was arrested (along with many other writers) 2 years later by Soviet authorities and shot.

1) Kuzmin
2) Yuri Yurkin
3) Kuzmin

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Mikhail Kuzmin

Russian poet, novelist. His novel Wings was the first Russian novel centred on homosexuality. Kuzmin met poet Yuri Yurkun in 1913. The 2 lived together with Yurkun's mother, + wife, Olga. Their relationship lasted until Kuzmin's death in 1936. Yurkun was arrested (along with many other writers) 2 years later by Soviet authorities and shot.

1) Portrait by Konstantin Somow
2) Portrait by Aleksandr Golovin
3) Portrait by Yury Annenkov

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" ... And people saw that every sort of beauty, every sort of love was from the gods, and they became free and bold, and they grew WINGS." 🪽 ---- Mikhail Kuzmin from his novella Wings, 1906

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