The Sexual Revolution in Old Russia
Dr Matthew Raphael Johnson brings us a new Orthodox Nationalist, this week looking at the pre-revolutionary sexual liberation movement in Russia. The death of Nicholas I in the midst of the Crimean War signaled the start of the revolution. The abolition of serfdom in 1861 (just a few years later) seemed to hammer the final nail into the coffin of the “shameful past.” The few survivors of the Decembrist revolt, a noble revolution stopped by Nicholas, saw this event as a worthy end of their lives, and a victory over their nemesis, the conservative Nikolai and all that he stood for.
