The story “Wings” became the debut for the poet, prose writer and translator Mikhail Kuzmin, immediately gained scandalous fame and is still perhaps the only classic text of Russian literature on the topic of homosexual love. “Wings” are “wonderful”, according to According to the poet Alexander Blok, some considered it "disgusting", "sickening" and "pathological pornography". Over the past decade, “Wings” has been published for only the third time. The first editions sold out instantly.