Nikolai Vasilievich Kuzmin (Russian: Николай Васильевич Кузьмин; born 1938) is a Russian painter. After studying in the Art College of Pavlovo-na-Oke, close to his home village Talynskoye, he entered the Stroganov Moscow State University of…
In 1940, Kuzmin graduated from the acting department of the Leningrad Theatrical Institute and was immediately called up for military service, and later became a member of the Great Patriotic War.
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.