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Overview
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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Meticulously detailed, Malmstad's monumental study explores the private agonies of Kuzmin's complicated personal life; insists in his contribution to Russian letters; and offers a fascinating depiction of the intermeshed lives of Russia's artistic elite during the Silver Age and the first two decades of the Soviet Union.
— M. G. Levine
New Republic
The work of Malmstad and Bogomolov is a monumental enterprise, a thorough and highly informative study that opens an entirely new perspective on the so-called Silver Age of Russian literature.
— Tomas Venclova
Times Higher Education Supplement
This remarkable biography is full of piquant details about the strange writer-musician with the un-Russian physiognomy and the physique of a faun from a Pompeian fresco, and none of them frivolous…[The] book substantially increases our knowledge not only of Kuzmin but of the whole period in which he lived.
— Rosamund Bartlett
Times Higher Educational Supplement [UK]
This definitive biography...draws heavily on unpublished materials and is aimed, despite the relative unavailability of Kuzmin's work in translation, at the widest possible readership...This book substantially increases our knowledge not only of Kuzmin but of the whole period in which he lived (particularly where it concerns the revolutionary gay scene in St. Petersburg).
— Rosamund Bartlet
Times Literary Supplement
One cannot praise this biography too highly; the narrative is fascinating. To do this for a Russian poet, none of whose verse exists in a good English translation, is a remarkable achievement. Malmstad and Bogomolov have devoted three decades to their subject and their period, and move easily in Kuzmin's milieu.
— Donald Rayfield,
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John E. Malmstad is Samuel Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.
Nikolay Bogomolov is Professor of Russian Literature at the University of Moscow.
Table of Contents
Preface
Authors' Note
Introduction
"The Edifying Story of My Beginnings": 1872-1897
"I Am Searching...the Long, Long Path": 1897-1902
"Will a New Russia Arise?" 1903-1905
Buoyant Days: 1905-6
"Burning with a Double Love": 1907-1909
Disciple to Master: 1909-10
"Where Is Life's Enchantment?" 1911-12
"Everything Will Be as It Is Destined": 1913-1916
"The End of Everything": 1917-1920
"Will I Have Time to Show the Magic in Me?" 1921-1923
"Like a Ragged Squirrel on a Treadmill": 1924-1926
Dissenting to the End: 1927-1936
Epilogue
Abbreviations and Bibliographical Note
Notes
Index