Andrei Evgenievich Gusev (Андрей Евгеньевич Гусев, born 27 October 1952 in Moscow) is a Russian novelist and journalist who, in the 2010s, turned his fiction toward femdom, bondage, erotic spanking, and the BDSM subculture inside Russia. Before the kink books he was a medical physicist with ten inventions and twenty-three published scientific papers—one of them co-authored with Nobel laureate and Soviet physics legend Academician Alexander Prokhorov—then a daily-paper correspondent and editor-in-chief of a medical gazette. For readers of BDSM literature he is the Moscow professional who put role-play, female domination, and spanking into post-Soviet literary Russian instead of leaving those scenes in imported translation.
MEPhI, Medical Physics, Prokhorov
Gusev was born in the former Soviet Union, in Moscow. Both parents were engineers. His father, Evgeny Gusev, came from Chernihiv Oblast in Ukraine; his mother, Rosalind Maltseva, was born in Moscow. He graduated from the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI) in 1975. For the next eleven years he worked as a scientific employee—a medical physicist—in public health. In those years he also took a medical education. The Prokhorov co-authorship sits in that scientific stretch: not a literary blurb, but a real paper with a physicist whose laser work defined a generation of Soviet science.
From Moskovskij Komsomolets to The New Medical Gazette
In 1990 he became a correspondent at the daily Moskovskij Komsomolets. He later worked as special correspondent for the all-Russia Rossiyskaya Gazeta and as deputy editor-in-chief of the youth paper Stupeni. Since 1993 he has been editor-in-chief of The New Medical Gazette (published in Russian). The journalism pile runs to several hundred articles in Moskovskij Komsomolets, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Sovetskaya Rossiya, Vechernyaya Moskva, The Moscow News, Stupeni, The New Medical Gazette, and the magazines Auto M, Stolitza, and Yatt.
The first books came out of the Stupeni years: the collection Ticket to America (1992) and Presentation (1993). Then Mister Novelist (1994), With Chronos’ Permit (1995), The Russian Story (1996), and the story collection On the Edge of Magellanic Clouds (1998, Probel, ISBN 5-89346-012-X). The novels The Painter & Eros and Role Plays appeared in 2003 from West-Consulting (the former ISBN 5-85511-011-7); The World According to Novikoff followed in 2006 (ISBN 978-5-903321-02-5).
2010s: Femdom, Bondage, Erotic Spanking
In his 2010s prose Gusev developed the themes of BDSM subculture in Russia. The recurring subjects are female domination, bondage, erotic spanking, and BDSM fiction itself. Online texts circulating under his name include the novels The Russian Writer Loves Role Plays, Love Story in the Style of Femdom, Our Wild Sex in Malindi, and Once in Malindi, plus shorter pieces such as “Сто лет со дня рождения,” “Пудель цвета любви,” and “Оставьте свой реквием после сигнала!” The titles are not coy. A physicist-journalist who had already published “role plays” as a 2003 story collection spent the next decade writing the scenes out: a woman on top, rope, a spanking that is meant to arouse, set in a Russian and sometimes East African geography rather than in a translated French château.
He also became a character in someone else’s thrillers. Sergei Aman’s novel Journalists uses him as the prototype for Andrei Lebedev, a reporter at a paper called Moskovskij Bogomolets—a transparent twist on Moskovskij Komsomolets. In Aman’s Everything Will Be Okay, We’re All Going to Die! Gusev appears under his own name, as the journalist Andrei Gusev.
Moscow Life
The 1990s books are the apprenticeship, not the kink shelf. Ticket to America and Presentation came out of Stupeni; Mister Novelist, With Chronos’ Permit, The Russian Story, and On the Edge of Magellanic Clouds filled the rest of the decade. West-Consulting’s 2003 pair—The Painter & Eros and Role Plays—already puts eros and role-play in the titles; The World According to Novikoff (2006) closes that pre-BDSM novel run. What changes in the 2010s is subject, not profession: the same Moscow editor starts writing female domination, bondage, erotic spanking, and the Russian scene as if they were reportable life. Aman’s two novels then flip the camera and make Gusev a character—once as Lebedev at a parody of Moskovskij Komsomolets, once under his own byline.
Gusev lives in Moscow. He has been married twice and divorced twice. His first wife, Nina Guseva (née Odnoletko), worked as a nurse; his second, Ivetta Sarkisyan, is a philologist by training. He has two daughters. His hobby is beekeeping. The official site and the New Medical Gazette masthead still present the medical editor; the later fiction is where the femdom and spanking readers actually find him. That double desk is the point of the biography: a MEPhI graduate who published with Prokhorov, then spent decades in Moscow newsrooms, then wrote Russian BDSM as lived subculture rather than as imported decadence. Ten inventions and twenty-three scientific papers sit behind the novels; the 2010s books are what put him on a BDSM writers list. Online, the femdom and Malindi novels circulate next to the earlier ISBN’d Moscow books; together they are the shelf, not a side hobby attached to a physics CV.
