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- According to biographer John Wiley, Tchaikovsky was openly gay all his life, feminising the names of the young men he consorted with, as well as referring to himself as “Petrolina”.
www.thepinknews.com › 2017/08/23 › one-of-russias-greatest-cultural-exports-tchaikovsky-was-gay-and-theyve-spent-100-years-denying-itWas Tchaikovsky gay? How Russia spent a century hiding the ...
Jun 3, 2018 · The letters of composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky contain never-seen-before passages revealing his same-sex desires, which had previously been deleted by Russian censors. But, now, these sensitive extracts have been restored – providing an insight into Tchaikovsky’s homoerotic thoughts and feelings.
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Many of Tchaikovsky's most intimate relationships were homosexual: Tchaikovsky's servant Aleksey Sofronov and his nephew, Vladimir “Bob” Davydov.
Terrified that he would be exposed as gay, Tchaikovsky married a former student, Antonina Milyikova, in 1877. He warned her that they would only be best friends and that he did not love her, but apparently she knew nothing about his sexuality until after the wedding.
Jun 17, 2024 · Kostalevsky stated that Tchaikovsky’s sexuality remains a subject of debate in Russia; many believe that others spread rumors about the composer being gay in order to discredit him. Some have even questioned the authenticity of the newly discovered letters themselves.
Feb 12, 2015 · "There were actually quite a few gay people in the Russian government at that time," Anderson asserts. "Tchaikovsky wasn't as persecuted about his sexuality as was originally assumed. It wasn't so much about his being gay, but more about him not getting to experience fulfillment in his love affairs."
Aug 23, 2017 · According to biographer John Wiley, Tchaikovsky was openly gay all his life, feminising the names of the young men he consorted with, as well as referring to himself as “Petrolina”.
It has also at times caused considerable confusion, from Soviet efforts to expunge all references to same-sex attraction and portray him as a heterosexual, to efforts at armchair analysis by Western biographers. Biographers have generally agreed that Tchaikovsky was homosexual.
