Talk:Georgy Chicherin

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Additionally, the guy also spoke 19(!) foreign languages and was one of four people in the history to have read more than 100 000 books.

That would be worth adding if we could find a source. I'll see what I can do. Ahasuerus 13:57, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

OK, the article has been expanded. I couldn't find a source for the exact number of labguages that Chicherin spoke, but what I did find should do for now. Ahasuerus 14:58, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Georgi or Georgy?

I'm a bit confused about what his name is. Is it spelled Georgi or Georgy? I searched for Georgi Chicherin, but the article says Georgy. I think this should be fixed. According to the book I'm reading now (Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger) it is spelled Georgi, but he could be wrong as well. I'm not sure how to verify this.

Both spellings are OK. These are alternative transliterations of Russian Георгий ("George"). --Ghirla ^-трёп- 08:56, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gay?

Uh, kinda' confused here... Why is he listed as gay, and his article listed as falling under the LGBT Project, despite he fact that there's no mention of homosexuality in the article? Is this vandalism?--~Ça Suffit~ 08:45, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Mikhail Kuzmin had a childhood friend Georgy Vasilevich Chicherin (1872-1936) who was his own age and a self-accepting gay. In 1904 Georgy Chicherin introduced Mikhail Kuzmin to Mir iskoustva (The World of Art), which was an artistic circle centred mainly on Sergei Diaghilev (1872-1929). The Mir iskoustva was attractive to Mikhail Kuzmin because of its large gay membership and its devotion to dandyism. Georgy Chicherin went on to become Lenin's foreign minister in 1918.