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Simon Karlinsky (Russian: Семён Аркадьевич Карлинский; September 22, 1924 – July 5, 2009) was an American Slavist, literary scholar, LGBTQ historian, and Professor of the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.

He was born in 1924 in Harbin to a family of Russian Jewish immigrants. His father Aron was a photographer and his mother Sofia (née Levitina) was a manager of a women's clothing shop-atelier. He was the only child in the family and attended a Russian school, where he showed literary and musical ability. In 1932, Japan occupied Manchuria, and the Russian fascists who had settled in the city began to attack the Jewish population. In 1938, the family emigrates to Los Angeles, USA. Simon attends Balmont High School and, in 1941-43, Los Angeles City College.

In 1944, during World War II, Karlinsky enlists in the U.S. Army and is sent to the European front. In 1945, he serves as an army interpreter in Berlin, is discharged from the army in 1946, but remains to work as an interpreter for the American mission. In 1951 he moves to Paris and studies with Arthur Honegger at the École Normale de Musique de Paris, but after a year he returns to Berlin, where he continues his musical education at the Berlin Higher School of Music with Boris Blacher.

In January 1958, Karlinsky returned to the United States. Seeing no prospects for a musical career, he turned to literature, although he continued to be interested in music and later published some musicological works. In 1960 he graduated with a red degree from the University of California at Berkeley in Slavic languages and literature. Then in 1961 he completed a master's program at Harvard University. However, he soon returned to teach at Berkeley, where he received his doctorate in 1964 (doctoral dissertation on Marina Tsvetaeva). Karlinsky became full professor in 1967, the same year he became chair of the Department of History of Slavic Languages and Literature at UCLA. He retired in 1991.

Simon Karlinsky's research interests include Russian literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Russian modernism, Russian theater and drama, Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov, Marina Tsvetaeva, Vladimir Nabokov, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Igor Stravinsky, the interaction of Russian literature with French, English and German cultures, women's and LGBT studies. His work was taboo in the USSR. He was a pioneer of Russian queer history. One of his most famous works was on the homosexuality of the Russian-Ukrainian writer Vasily Gogol.

Yuri Minayevich Piryutko (May 27, 1946 - October 3, 2014) was a Soviet and Russian historian of St. Petersburg, writer, necropolis specialist, and [LGBTQ history|LGBTQ historian]].

Yuriy Piryutko was born on May 27, 1946 in Tashkent. His father was a military man, and his mother was a teacher. In November 1946, the mother and son moved to Leningrad (now St. Petersburg).

In 1969, Yuriy Piryutko graduated from Leningrad State University, receiving a degree in art history. His thesis topic was the work of the artist Prince Grigory Gagarin.

He studied the history of the St. Petersburg cabarets of the Art Nouveau era, “Stray Dog Café” and “Comedians’ Rest Halt”.

In the early 1970s, Yuri Piryutko was the main compiler of a collection about the Russian artist and queer figure Konstantin Somov. But the book was published without his name.

In 1970-1973, Yuri Piryutko worked as the director of the Gatchina Museum of Local History in the Priory Palace. He prepared the first guide to the city of Gatchina and its environs.

Yuri Piryutko belonged to the circle of "writers of Malaya Sadovaya". Since the early 1960s, he wrote poetry and prose. However, his works were published in the USSR almost exclusively in samizdat. He also did translations, including poems by F. Hölderlin, Ezra Pound, G. Trakl, Stefan George, Paul Verlaine.

In 1973, Yuri Piryutko began working at the State Museum of the History of Leningrad. Since 1977, he was in charge of the memorial sculpture department at the State Museum of Urban Sculpture.

Yuri Piryutko wrote extensively on topics related to the history of the first Russian pantheon of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. In 1987, he initiated the creation of the city society of necropolis studies. Within the framework of this organization, he conducted research and gave lectures. In 1993, together with A. V. Kobak, he published the book “Historical Cemeteries of St. Petersburg”, which is the main research material on this topic. Yuri Piryutko’s work in the field of necropolis studies was recognized in 1996 with the Antsiferov Prize. Since 1992, he wrote the memoir prose “Notes before the End of the World”.

Yuri Piryutko was gay and had been leading historical queer tours of the city since the 1980s. In 1993, his essay on queer history under the title “Blue Petersburg” was published in the first gay magazine registered in the USSR, “You”. He published a book on this topic in 1998, already under a pseudonym and a disguised title, “Another Petersburg”. The book received great praise from critics and was reprinted several times.

Yuri Piryutko died on October 3, 2014, in the city of Torzhok, where he had come to give a lecture. He was buried at the Volkovskoye Orthodox Cemetery, next to his mother’s grave.

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Semyon Karlinsky was openly gay and married Peter Carleton, living with him for 35 years until his death.

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