Mikhail Kuzmin (1872-1936), Russia's first openly gay writer,
stood at the epicenter of the turbulent cultural and social life of
Petersburg-Petrograd-Leningrad for over three decades. A poet of
the caliber of Aleksandr Blok, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Boris
Pasternak, Osip Mandelshtam, and Marina Tsvetaeva (and acknowledged
as such by them and other contemporaries), Kuzmin was also a prose
writer, playwright, critic, translator, and composer who was
associated with every aspect of modernism's history in Russia, from
Symbolism to the Leningrad avant-gardes of the 1920s.
Only now is Kuzmin beginning to emerge from the "official
obscurity" imposed by the Soviet regime to assume his place as one
of Russia's greatest poets and one of this century's most
characteristic and colorful creative figures. This biography, the
first in any language to be based on full and uncensored access to
the writer's private papers, including his notorious Diary, places
Kuzmin in the context of his society and times and contributes to
our discovery and appreciation of a fascinating period and of
Russia's long suppressed gay history.
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