İngilizce
Night was done. We rose and after Washing, dressing,—kissed with laughter,— After all, the sweet night knows. Lilac breakfast cups were clinking…
Mikhail Alekseyevich Kuzmin, born October 18, 1872, was a gay Russian poet, musician, novelist, and prominent figure during the Silver Age of Russian poetry. His first novel, Krylya [Wings] (Vesy, 1906) was one of the first published works in Russian literature to include overt homosexuality. His poetry collections include Forel’ Razbivaet Led. Stikhi [The Trout Breaks the Ice] (St. Petersburg Pisatelei, 1929); Paraboly [Parabolas] (1923); Nezdeshniye vechera [Otherworldly Evenings] (1921). Kuzmin died on March 1, 1963, in the Soviet Union.