St. Petersburg and its Familiar Strangers
Abstrak
This chapter looks at a dossier preserved in the personal archives of imperial minister Mikhail Ostrovskii to explore the visibility and composition of late imperial St. Petersburg's queer milieu. By the late nineteenth century, St. Petersburg's queer milieu had developed a clear and recognizable footprint. One of its central locations was Anichkov Bridge, part of the city's largest traffic artery, Nevsky Prospect. The chapter addresses the prism of social class, the dossier's emphasis on decadent and exploitative cross-class encounters, and sets out the preliminary position of the dossier vis-à-vis other key historical sources and, most important, the forensic-medical discussion of “homosexuality.” The chapter summarizes certain themes highlighted in the dossier that are repeated in other documents from around this time: the tension on the part of the city's governing authorities between suppression and toleration; the implications of streetlife for the queer milieu; its use of semipublic spaces; and finally, casual queer socialization.
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Olga Petri
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- 2022
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- 10.7591/cornell/9781501763779.003.0008
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