#MikhailKuzmin met #poet #YuriYurkun in 1913. Their relationship lasted until Kuzmin's death in 1936. Yurkun was arrested (along w/ many other writers) 2 years later by Soviet authorities and shot.

1) Kuzmin
2) Yurkin
3) Kuzmin

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#MikhailKuzmin

#RussianPoet, #novelist. His #novel #Wings was the first #RussianNovel centred on homosexuality.

1) Portrait by #KonstantinSomow
2) #AleksandrGolovin
3) #YuryAnnenkov

#Михаи́лКузми́н #Крылья #gaylit #gayliterature

" ... And people saw that every sort of #beauty, every sort of #love was from #thegods, and they became free and bold, and they grew WINGS." 🪽 ---- #MikhailKuzmin from his #novela #Wings, 1906

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