Mikhail Kuzmin A Life in Art Author:Nikolay Bogomolov, John Malmstad 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. Kuzmin was also a prose writer, playwright, critic, translator, and composer who was associated with every aspect of modernism's history in Russia. This biography... more », the first in any language to be based on full and uncensored access to the writer's private papers, including his notorious Diary.« less