LGBTQ in Russia: Maria Alekhina and Ira Roldugina presents first opera

The introduction to Sergei Nevski’s documentary opera “The Simple”, which sets letters from Russian homosexuals from the decade after the October Revolution to music. The texts on which the work is based, which are addressed to the psychiatrist, brain and reflex researcher Vladimir Bechterew (1857 to 1927), who collaborated with the Soviet power at an early age, had the Russian historian Ira Roldugina.