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Yuri Minayevich Piryutko (May 27, 1946 - October 3, 2014) was a Soviet and Russian historian of St. Petersburg, writer, necropolis specialist, and [LGBTQ history|LGBTQ historian]].
Yuriy Piryutko was born on May 27, 1946 in Tashkent. His father was a military man, and his mother was a teacher. In November 1946, the mother and son moved to Leningrad (now St. Petersburg).
In 1969, Yuriy Piryutko graduated from Leningrad State University, receiving a degree in art history. His thesis topic was the work of the artist Prince Grigory Gagarin.
He studied the history of the St. Petersburg cabarets of the Art Nouveau era, “Stray Dog Café” and “Comedians’ Rest Halt”.
In the early 1970s, Yuri Piryutko was the main compiler of a collection about the Russian artist and queer figure Konstantin Somov. But the book was published without his name.
In 1970-1973, Yuri Piryutko worked as the director of the Gatchina Museum of Local History in the Priory Palace. He prepared the first guide to the city of Gatchina and its environs.
Yuri Piryutko belonged to the circle of "writers of Malaya Sadovaya". Since the early 1960s, he wrote poetry and prose. However, his works were published in the USSR almost exclusively in samizdat. He also did translations, including poems by F. Hölderlin, Ezra Pound, G. Trakl, Stefan George, Paul Verlaine.
In 1973, Yuri Piryutko began working at the State Museum of the History of Leningrad. Since 1977, he was in charge of the memorial sculpture department at the State Museum of Urban Sculpture.
Yuri Piryutko wrote extensively on topics related to the history of the first Russian pantheon of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. In 1987, he initiated the creation of the city society of necropolis studies. Within the framework of this organization, he conducted research and gave lectures. In 1993, together with A. V. Kobak, he published the book “Historical Cemeteries of St. Petersburg”, which is the main research material on this topic. Yuri Piryutko’s work in the field of necropolis studies was recognized in 1996 with the Antsiferov Prize. Since 1992, he wrote the memoir prose “Notes before the End of the World”.
Yuri Piryutko was gay and had been leading historical queer tours of the city since the 1980s. In 1993, his essay on queer history under the title “Blue Petersburg” was published in the first gay magazine registered in the USSR, “You”. He published a book on this topic in 1998, already under a pseudonym and a disguised title, “Another Petersburg”. The book received great praise from critics and was reprinted several times.
Yuri Piryutko died on October 3, 2014, in the city of Torzhok, where he had come to give a lecture. He was buried at the Volkovskoye Orthodox Cemetery, next to his mother’s grave.