 However, documentary evidence remains scarce; as some suggest, one of the reasons is that scholars in Russia working on archival material have tended to treat issues of sexuality with some caution ; and homosexuality remains a taboo subject for Russian readers and students.Kluyev, whose work is thoroughly inspired with the spirit of the Old Believers, was the first in Russian literature who began to praise the innocence of the body.In his view, Christ had been homosexual.