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30 April 2015

Andrei Ivanovich (192? - ?)

Andrei Ivanovich was living in Karaganda, Soviet Kazakhstan, in 1965 when he was included in a study by psychiatrist Elizaveta Derevinskaia. She referred to him as ‘O.A.’. Andrei had male identity papers, and was officially married to his wife and had adopted her children.

* not the classical pianist
  • Elizaveta Derevinskaia. Materially k klinike, patogenezu, terapii zhenskogo gomoseksualizma. Doctoral thesis. Karaganda State Medical Institute. 1965.
  • Dan Healey. Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press xvi, 392 pp 2001: 242, fig 25.

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