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Biography, life story of Yesenin Sergey Alexandrovich
Born October 3, 1895 in the village of Konstantinovo, Ryazan province, Ryazan district, Kuzminskaya volost, in a peasant family. Father - Alexander Nikitich Yesenin (1873-1931), mother - Tatyana Fedorovna Titova (1875-1955). In 1904, Yesenin went to the Konstantinovsky Zemstvo School, then began his studies at a closed church teacher's school. After graduating from school, in the fall of 1912, Yesenin arrived in Moscow, worked in a butcher's shop, and then - in the printing house of I. D. Sytin. In 1913, he entered the historical and philosophical department of the Moscow City People's University named after L. Shanyavsky as a volunteer. He worked in a printing house, had contacts with the poets of the Surikov Literary and Musical Circle.
professional life
In 1915 in children's magazine"Mirok" Yesenin's poems were first published.
In 1915, Yesenin came from Moscow to Petrograd, read his poems to A. A. Blok, S. M. Gorodetsky and other poets. In January 1916, Yesenin was called to military service and thanks to the efforts of friends, he was appointed (“with the highest permission”) as an orderly to the Tsarskoye Selo military hospital train N 143 Her Imperial Majesty Sovereign Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. At this time, he became close to a group of "new peasant poets" and published the first collections ("Radunitsa" - 1916), which made him very famous. Together with Nikolai Klyuev, he often spoke to Empress Alexandra Feodorovna and her daughters in Tsarskoye Selo.
In 1915-1917, Yesenin maintained friendly relations with the poet Leonid Kannegiser, who later killed the chairman of the Petrograd Cheka, Uritsky.
In 1917, he met and on July 4 of the same year married Zinaida Reich, a Russian actress, the future wife of the outstanding director V. E. Meyerhold. At the end of 1919 (or in 1920), Yesenin left his family, and in the arms of a pregnant son (Konstantin), Zinaida Reich, a one and a half year old daughter Tatyana remained. On February 19, 1921, the poet filed for divorce, in which he undertook to financially support them (the divorce was officially filed in October 1921). Subsequently, Sergei Yesenin repeatedly visited his children adopted by Meyerhold.
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By 1918 - the beginning of the 1920s, Yesenin's acquaintance with Anatoly Mariengof and his active participation in the Moscow group of Imagists dates back.
During the period of Yesenin's enthusiasm for imagism, several collections of the poet's poems were published - "Treryadnitsa", "Confession of a Hooligan" (both - 1921), "Poems of a Brawler" (1923), "Moscow Tavern" (1924), the poem "Pugachev".
In 1921, the poet traveled to Central Asia, visited the Urals and the Orenburg region. From May 13 to June 3, he stayed in Tashkent with his friend and poet Alexander Shiryaevts. Despite the informal nature of the visit, Yesenin spoke to the public several times, read poems at poetry evenings and at the homes of his Tashkent friends. According to eyewitnesses, Yesenin liked to visit the old city, the teahouses of the old city and Urda, listen to Uzbek poetry, music and songs, visit the picturesque surroundings of Tashkent with his friends. He also made a short trip to Samarkand.
In the autumn of 1921, in the workshop of G. B. Yakulov, Yesenin met the dancer Isadora Duncan, whom he married six months later. After the wedding, Yesenin and Duncan traveled to Europe (Germany, France, Belgium, Italy) and to the USA (4 months), where he stayed from May 1922 to August 1923. The newspaper "Izvestia" published Yesenin's notes about America "Iron Mirgorod". The marriage to Duncan broke up shortly after their return from abroad.
In one of his last poems - "Country of Scoundrels" - the poet writes very sharply about the leaders of contemporary Russia, which could be perceived by some as a denunciation Soviet power. This attracted increased attention to him from law enforcement agencies, including police officers and OGPU. Sharply critical articles about him began to appear in the newspapers, accusing him of drunkenness, fights and other anti-social acts, although the poet, by his behavior (especially in the second quarter of the 1920s), sometimes gave grounds for this kind of criticism from his ill-wishers.
In the early 1920s, Yesenin was actively engaged in book publishing, as well as selling books in a bookstore he rented on Bolshaya Nikitskaya, which occupied almost all of the poet's time. Last years In his life, Yesenin traveled a lot around the country. He visited the Caucasus three times, several times went to Leningrad, seven times to Konstantinovo.
In 1924-1925, Yesenin visited Azerbaijan, published a collection of poems at the Krasny Vostok printing house, and was printed at a local publishing house. There is a version that here, in May 1925, a poetic “Message to the Evangelist Demyan” was written. He lived in the village of Mardakan (a suburb of Baku). Currently, his house-museum and a memorial plaque are located here.
In 1924, Sergei Yesenin decided to break with Imagism because of disagreements with A. B. Mariengof. Yesenin and Ivan Gruzinov published an open letter disbanding the group.
At the end of November 1925, Sofya Tolstaya agreed with the director of the paid psycho-neurological clinic of Moscow University, Professor P. B. Gannushkin, to hospitalize the poet in his clinic. Only a few people close to the poet knew about this. On December 23, 1925, Yesenin left the clinic and went to Leningrad, where he stayed at No. 5 of the Angleterre Hotel.
Personal life
In 1913, Sergei Yesenin met Anna Romanovna Izryadnova, who worked as a proofreader in the printing house of the I.D. Sytin Partnership, where Yesenin went to work. In 1914 they entered into a civil marriage. On December 21, 1914, Anna Izryadnova gave birth to a son named Yuri (he was shot in 1937).
In 1917-1921, Yesenin was married to actress Zinaida Nikolaevna Reich, later the wife of Vsevolod Meyerhold. Sergei Yesenin arranged his "bachelor party" before the wedding in Vologda, in a wooden house on Malaya Dukhovskaya Street (now Pushkinskaya Street, 50). and Julitta of the village of Tolstikovo, Vologda district. The groom's guarantors were Pavel Pavlovich Khitrov, a peasant from the village of Ivanovskaya Spasskaya volost, and Sergei Mikhailovich Baraev, a peasant from the village of Ustya, Ustyanskaya volost, the bride's guarantors were Alexei Alekseevich Ganin and Dmitry Dmitrievich Devyatkov, a merchant's son from the city of Vologda. And the wedding took place in the building of the Passage Hotel. From this marriage were born daughter Tatiana (June 11, 1918, Moscow - May 5, 1992, Tashkent), a journalist and writer, and son Konstantin (1920-1986) - later a football statistician and journalist.
In 1921, from May 13 to June 3, the poet stayed in Tashkent with his friend, the Tashkent poet Alexander Shiryaevts. At the invitation of the director of the Turkestan Public Library, on May 25, 1921, Yesenin spoke in the library at a literary evening hosted by his friends, in front of the audience of the Art Studio, which existed at the library. Yesenin arrived in Turkestan in the carriage of his friend Kolobov, a responsible employee of the NKPS. He lived on this train all the time of his stay in Tashkent, then on this train he traveled to Samarkand, Bukhara and Poltoratsk (former Ashgabat). On June 3, 1921, Sergei Yesenin left Tashkent and returned to Moscow on June 9, 1921. By coincidence, almost the entire life of the poet's daughter Tatyana was spent in Tashkent, where she was buried at the city's Botkin cemetery.
In the autumn of 1921, in the workshop of G. B. Yakulov, Yesenin met the dancer Isadora Duncan, whom he married on May 2, 1922. At the same time, Yesenin did not speak English, and Duncan barely spoke Russian. Immediately after the wedding, Yesenin accompanied Duncan on tours of Europe and the United States. Usually, when describing this union, the authors note its love-scandalous side, however, these two artists, undoubtedly, were brought together by the relationship of creativity. However, their marriage was brief, and in 1923 Yesenin returned to Moscow.
In 1923, Yesenin struck up an acquaintance with the actress Augusta Miklashevskaya, to whom he dedicated seven heartfelt, extremely intimate poems from the Love of a Hooligan cycle. In one of the lines, the name of the actress is obviously encrypted: “Why does your name ring like that, Like the August coolness?” It is noteworthy that in the fall of 1976, when the actress was already 85, in an interview with literary critics, Augusta Leonidovna admitted that the affair with Yesenin was platonic and she did not even kiss the poet.
On May 12, 1924, Yesenin's son Alexander was born after an affair with the poetess and translator Nadezhda Volpin, later a famous mathematician and leader of the dissident movement. The only living child of Yesenin.
In the autumn of 1925, Yesenin married for the third (and last) time - to Sofya Andreevna Tolstaya (1900-1957), the granddaughter of Leo Tolstoy, at that time the head of the library of the Writers' Union. This marriage also did not bring happiness to the poet and soon broke up. Restless loneliness was one of the main reasons for Yesenin's tragic end. After the poet's death, Tolstaya devoted her life to collecting, preserving, describing and preparing Yesenin's works for publication, leaving memoirs about him.
According to the memoirs of N. Sardanovsky and the letters of the poet, Yesenin was a vegetarian for some time.
Doom
The Soviet government was worried about Yesenin's condition. So, in a letter from Kh. G. Rakovsky to F. E. Dzerzhinsky dated October 25, 1925, Rakovsky asks “ save the life of the famous poet Yesenin - undoubtedly the most talented in our Union, ”offering:“ Invite him to your place, make it good and send a comrade from the GPU with him to the sanatorium, who would not let him get drunk ...". On the letter is Dzerzhinsky’s resolution, addressed to his close friend, secretary, head of the GPU V. D. Gerson: “ M. b., could you get busy?"Gerson's note next to it:" Called repeatedly - could not find Yesenin».
It is known about more than ten convictions of the poet (for example, “the case of four poets”), about his statements that are not always pleasing to the regime in public and in creativity - Yesenin often allowed himself to say what he thought. “I will not allow a White Guard to say about Soviet Russia what I say myself. This is mine, and I am the judge of this." It is known that he refused to write commissioned poems glorifying the authorities in the country.
The last years of Yesenin's life are an incredible creative upsurge. In 1925 he was the first poet in Russia. He is preparing to release the complete collection of his works. “In Russia, almost all poets died without seeing complete collection his writings. And here I am - I will see my collection, ”said the poet. At the end of November, all three volumes of his collected works have already been put into typesetting...
On December 28, 1925, Yesenin was found dead in the Angleterre Hotel in Leningrad. His last poem - "Goodbye, my friend, goodbye ..." - was written in this hotel in blood, and according to the poet's friends, Yesenin complained that there was no ink in the room, and he was forced to write in blood.
According to the version accepted by most of the poet's biographers, Yesenin, in a state of depression (a month after treatment in a neuropsychiatric hospital), committed suicide (hanged himself). Neither contemporaries of the event, nor in the next few decades after the death of the poet, other versions of the event were expressed. In the 1970s and 1980s, mainly in nationalist circles, there were also versions about the murder of the poet, followed by a staged suicide: on the basis of jealousy, mercenary motives, murder by the OGPU.
In 1989, under the auspices of the Gorky IMLI, the Yesenin Commission was established under the chairmanship of Yu. L. Prokushev; at her request, a number of examinations were carried out, leading to the following conclusion: ... the “versions” now published about the murder of the poet, followed by a staged hanging, despite some discrepancies ... are a vulgar, incompetent interpretation of special information, sometimes falsifying the results of the examination”(from the official response of the professor at the Department of Forensic Medicine, Dr. medical sciences B. S. Svadkovsky at the request of the chairman of the commission Yu. L. Prokushev). In the 1990s, various authors continued to put forward both new arguments in support of the murder version and counterarguments. The version of Yesenin's murder is presented in the TV series Yesenin.
Date of birth: October 3, 1895
Date of death: December 28, 1925
Place of birth: Konstantinovo village, Ryazan province
Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin- famous Russian poet, Yesenin S.A.- a follower of Imagism and peasant lyrics, was born on October 3, 1895 in the village of Konstantinovo.
His father Alexander Nikitich Yesenin was a peasant who moved with his family to Moscow and worked as a clerk in a small butcher's shop.
The poet's mother, Tatyana Fedorovna Titova, did not live with her husband for long, when the child was 2 years old, she went to work in Ryazan, and Yesenin was raised by her maternal grandparents.
Grandfather was a prosperous peasant, Yesenin's three uncles also lived in the house, who taught him horse riding, swimming and field work. The stories of the grandmother, who introduced her grandson to folklore and folk art, had a great influence on the poet's work. It was her stories, ditties and songs that caused Yesenin's love for poetry and pushed him to write his own poems. Grandfather also taught Yesenin to read and write from church books.
In 1904, Yesenin began his studies at the zemstvo school in the village of Konstantinovo, and five years later he entered the church teacher's school, which he graduated in 1912 with a teacher's diploma. After receiving his diploma, Sergei went to Moscow to his father, he worked with his father in a butcher's shop, and then began working in the printing house of I.D. Sytin. In 1913, he began attending Shanyavsky's Moscow City People's University.
His first poems were published in 1915 in the Mirok magazine. She began writing her own poems as a child. Studying at the church teacher's school allowed him to improve the skill of versification. He continued to write actively, but the opportunity for publication appeared only after moving to Moscow.
In 1915, after the first publications, he met Gorodetsky and Blok. These names were already significant for Russian literature. In Petrograd, Yesenin began military service and was assigned to Tsarskoye Selo. Once he even spoke with his poems to Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.
His first independent collection of poems "Radunitsa" was published a year later. Radunitsa is the name of a special day in the peasant calendar when the dead are commemorated. The same word was called spring folk songs, stoneflies. The name can be interpreted in different ways. This collection, filled with sadness, sadness and love for native nature, made the poet popular, brought him public recognition, drew the attention of critics to him.
Yesenin met the Imagists closer to the 20s. He immediately became interested in the ideas of creating deep images, metaphor. It was after his passion for new ideas that he released many collections of poems, which were also received by the public with a warm welcome.
During this period, the collections "Treryadnitsa", "Confessions of a Hooligan", "Poems of a Brawler", "Moscow Tavern" and a large poem "Pugachev" saw the light of day. All these publications became public from 1921 to 1924. At the same time, his trip to Asia, from where he brought new impressions, which became the basis for a cycle of poems called "Persian Motifs".
Despite the active civic position of Yesenin, who at first enthusiastically wrote about the new Soviet government, and then began to criticize it and moved into the opposition, lyrical works about nature and the motherland brought him real recognition. The textbook "Golden Grove Dissuaded...", "Letter to Mother" and other works of the poet are known to every schoolchild and were loved by the writer's contemporaries.
His work is still relevant, and the easily recognizable style of versification and mood have become calling card a poet who brought a lot of new things to Russian and world literature.
Important milestones in the life of Sergei Yesenin:
Born in Konstantinovo in 1895
- Entered the zemstvo school in 1904
- Entered the church teacher's school in 1909
- Moved to Moscow in 1912
- Marriage to Anna Izryadnova in 1913
- The birth of the son of Yuri Yesenin in 1914
- The release of the first poetry collection "Radunitsa" in 1916
- Married Zinaida Reich in 1917
- Birth of daughter Tatyana Yesenina in 1918
- Birth of son Konstantin Yesenin in 1920
- Publication of the collections "Confessions of a hooligan" and "Treryadnitsa" in 1921
- Marriage to Isadora Duncan in 1922
- Publication of the collection "Poems of a brawler" in 1923
- Publication of the collection "Moscow Kabatskaya", publication of the poem "Pugachev" in 1924
- The death of the poet in "Angleterre" in 1925
Interesting facts from the biography of Sergei Yesenin:
His son Yuri was shot in 1937
- Yesenin left his first family in 1914 after the birth of his son
- The second wife of Yesenin, Zinaida Reich, after a divorce, married V.E. Meyerhold, a famous director who gave his last name to Yesenin's two children
- Yesenin has an illegitimate son who chose to leave double surname Volpin-Yesenin
- One of the admirers and mistresses of the poet, Galina Benislavskaya, shot herself at the poet's grave a year after his death
- The poet met with the granddaughter of Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy Sophia, who put him in a mental hospital, from where the poet escaped, and later stayed at the Angleterre Hotel
- The death of the poet is still shrouded in secrets. There is a version about the poet's suicide, and there is another version according to which the poet was killed. The latter is supported by its active public life, as well as the expectation of the release of the next collection of poems, which was very tedious and pleasant for him, as he told his friends.
Name: Sergei Yesenin
Age: 30 years
Place of Birth: Konstantinovo, Ryazan region
A place of death: St. Petersburg, USSR
Activity: poet - lyricist
Family status: was divorced
Sergei Yesenin - biography
The great singer of Russian nature, Sergei Yesenin, probably could have written even more beautiful poetic works imbued with love for Russia, if not for his early death.
Childhood, the poet's family
Sergei Alexandrovich was born in the Ryazan village of Konstantinovo. The family was neither educated nor wealthy. The peasant life of a large family was remembered by the poet for the rest of his life. And the poor family has never been a dark spot in his biography. In addition to Seryozha, who was the only son, Yesenin Alexander and Tatyana raised two more daughters. The boy was sent to a zemstvo school, and then to a parochial school.
Sergei graduated from school, almost immediately decided to leave home and went to the capital. In Moscow, he got a job in a butcher's shop, and then found a job in a printing house. Previously, it was possible to get an education as a volunteer. Yesenin entered, using this chance, the historical and philosophical university department.
On the way to creativity, poetry
Yesenin continued his work, visited Surikov's circle, where poets and musicians gathered. The first poems of the beginner rhymer were published in a magazine for children. Soon Yesenin was lucky enough to arrive in Petrograd. He immediately showed his work to Alexander Blok. Since 1916, Sergei was called up for military service in the ambulance train of Empress Alexandra. This period made Yesenin famous as a poet, as he continued to create his works and even read them to the empress.
Yesenin is looking for himself in poetry, visiting different places: Central Asia, the Urals, places in the Orenburg region. Everywhere the poet reads his poems and is a great success with the public. Tashkent, Samarkand is proud of its teahouses, which the great poet had a chance to visit.
Sergei Yesenin - biography of personal life
Yesenin's first marriage was civil. He met a proofreader at work in a printing house. Anna Izryadnova. The woman gave birth to a son, Yuri, from the poet. They did not live together for long, since Sergey became interested in actress Zinaida Reich. They played a wedding in a hotel, and the witnesses at the wedding were simple peasants with a merchant's son at the head. Daughter Tanya was born, who continued her father's literary path, becoming a writer, and son Kostya. The ability to use a pen was also transferred to the son, although his profession is a construction engineer. Even the children did not keep Yesenin from leaving the family.
The poet promised to take care of his son and daughter, filed for divorce and left. The children were adopted by the second husband of Zinaida Meyerhold. The poet lives in the house of his secretary Benislavskaya for five years, then marries S. Tolstoy.
Once Yesenin met his love. He was captivated by the dancer Isadora Duncan, they went on dates to each other for six months and decided to get married. Not speaking the same language, the lovers understood each other. The young couple had a honeymoon trip to Europe: they visited Germany, France, Belgium, Italy and the United States of America. Upon returning from such a long trip, the couple broke up.
Returning to the capital, Yesenin again meets the actress Miklashevskaya, who temporarily inspires him to write beautiful poetic lines. Rarely with whom the poet met for more than a year, he often made new acquaintances. The next lover was the poet and translator Nadezhda Volpin. She gave birth to Yesenin's son Alexander, who has now become a mathematician and is alive and well to this day.
And again, after a year of another civil marriage, the poet officially marries Sofya Tolstaya. Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy was her grandfather. This marriage was not happy, rather Sergey felt lonely. But the wife kept a lot of the poet's personal belongings, she published all the works of her husband, wrote memoirs about him.
Other activities of the poet
In addition to writing, Yesenin is engaged in the publication of books and their sale. For these purposes, he rented a bookstore. Traveling remained the main hobby of the poet. Three times he was in the Caucasus, often visited St. Petersburg, in his native Konstantinovo was 7 times. Wandered the streets of Azerbaijan. In places visited by Yesenin, museums have been opened or memorial plaques have been installed. The poet, finally, determined for himself that the direction of Imagism is unable to convey the whole bunch of feelings that have been seething in him since birth.
The dissolution of the group that worked in this poetic direction is announced. Previously, Yesenin's friends did not allow themselves offensive statements and stories about his drunken fights and unworthy behavior. Now all the newspapers were full of accusatory headlines, accusing the poet of hooligan antics. Sergei Alexandrovich had a difficult period. Even representatives of the authorities took up his drinking, sending Yesenin for compulsory treatment. Nothing helped.
Sergei Yesenin - cause of death
Esenin's body was found in a hotel in Leningrad. He wrote his last letter in blood, having no ink in the hotel room. According to the pathologists about the cause of Yesenin's death: Sergei Alexandrovich was depressed, he had just escaped from a mental clinic. This was the reason - the reason for suicide. He was found hanged in his room.
Born September 21 (October 3), 1895 in the village. Konstantinovo, Ryazan province, in a peasant family.
Education in Yesenin's biography was received at the local zemstvo school (1904-1909), then until 1912 - in the class of the parochial school. In 1913 he entered the Shanyavsky City People's University in Moscow.
The beginning of the literary path
In Petrograd, Yesenin reads his poems to Alexander Blok and other poets. He approaches a group of "new peasant poets", and he himself is fond of this direction. After the publication of the first collections ("Radunitsa", 1916), the poet became widely known.
In the lyrics, Yesenin could psychologically approach the description of landscapes. Another theme of Yesenin's poetry is peasant Russia, love for which is felt in many of his works.
Since 1914, Sergei Alexandrovich has been published in children's publications, writing poems for children (poems "The Orphan", 1914, "The Beggar", 1915, the story "Yar", 1916, "The Tale of the Shepherd Petya ...", 1925 .).
At this time, real popularity comes to Yesenin, he is invited to various poetic meetings. Maxim Gorky wrote: “The city met him with the same admiration as a glutton meets strawberries in January. His poems began to be praised, excessively and insincerely, as hypocrites and envious people know how to praise.
In 1918-1920, Yesenin was fond of imagism, published collections of poems: "Confessions of a Hooligan" (1921), "Treryadnitsa" (1921), "Poems of a Brawler" (1923), "Moscow Tavern" (1924).
Personal life
After meeting the dancer Isadora Duncan in 1921, Yesenin soon married her. Before that, he lived with A.R. Izryadnova (had a son Yuri with her), Z.N. Reich (son Konstantin, daughter Tatyana), N. Volpina (son Alexander). After his marriage to Duncan, he traveled around Europe and the USA. Their marriage was short - in 1923 the couple broke up, and Yesenin returned to Moscow.
Last years of life and death
In the further work of Yesenin, Russian leaders were very critically described (1925, "Country of Scoundrels"). In the same year, in the life of Yesenin, the publication "Soviet Rus" was published.
In the autumn of 1925, the poet marries Leo Tolstoy's granddaughter, Sofya Andreevna. Depression, alcohol addiction, pressure from the authorities caused the new wife to place Sergei in a psycho-neurological hospital.
Then in the biography of Sergei Yesenin there was an escape to Leningrad. And on December 28, 1925, Yesenin died, his body was found hanged in the Angleterre Hotel.
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- Yesenin was well educated, read a lot, but did not know languages at all. With his wife Isadora, he could not speak English, and she could hardly speak Russian. Living abroad, he communicated with foreigners with the help of an interpreter.
- Yesenin became a father quite early - at the age of 18. The first child from a civil marriage with Anna Izryadnova was the son of Yuri, who was shot on a false charge of an attempt on Stalin's life in 1937.
- Yesenin's ideological literary opponent was, of course, Mayakovsky, who belonged to the futurists. Poets could publicly belittle each other's work, but each of them had a high opinion of the talent of the other.
- Still remains unsolved mystery death of the poet. In addition to the suicide version, there is also an assumption about a politically motivated murder, which was staged as a suicide.
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Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin was born in 1895 in the village of Konstantinovo, Ryazan province (see). His parents were peasants, and in addition to Sergei had two daughters: Ekaterina and Alexandra.
In 1904, Sergei Yesenin entered the zemstvo school in his native village, and in 1909 he began his studies at the parochial school in Spas-Klepiki.
Having a quick-tempered and restless character, Yesenin arrived in Moscow on an autumn day in 1912 in search of happiness. First, he got a job in a butcher's shop, and then began working in the printing house of I.D. Sytin.
Since 1913, he became a volunteer at the University named after A. L. Shanyavsky and made friends with the poets of the Surikov literary and musical circle. Needless to say, it mattered more further formation personality of the future star in the sky of Russian literature.
Special signs of Sergei Yesenin The beginning of creativity
The first poems by Sergei Yesenin were published in the children's magazine Mirok in 1914.
This seriously influenced his biography, but after a few months he left for Petrograd, where he made important acquaintances with A. Blok, S. Gorodetsky, N. Klyuev and other outstanding poets of his time.
Yesenin reads his mother's poems After a short time, a collection of poems called "Radunitsa" is published. Yesenin also collaborates with Socialist-Revolutionary magazines. The poems "Transfiguration", "Oktoih" and "Inonia" are printed in them.
After three years, that is, in 1918, the poet returns to, where, together with Anatoly Mariengof, he becomes one of the founders of the Imagists.
Starting to write the famous poem "Pugachev", he traveled to many significant and historical places: the Caucasus, Solovki, Crimea, and even got to where he stayed with his friend, the poet Alexander Shiryaevts.
It is believed that it was from Tashkent that his performances before the public at poetry evenings began.
It is difficult to fit all the adventures that happened to him during these travels into a short biography of Sergei Yesenin.
In 1921, a serious change took place in Yesenin's life, as he married the famous dancer Isadora Duncan.
After the wedding, the couple went on a trip to Europe and America. However, soon after returning from abroad, the marriage with Duncan broke up.
Yesenin's last days
The last few years of his life, the poet worked hard, as if foreseeing his imminent death. He traveled a lot around the country and went to the Caucasus three times.
In 1924, a trip took place to, and then to Georgia, where his works “The Poem of Twenty-Six”, “Anna Snegina”, “Persian Motifs” and the collection of poems “Red East” are being published.
When did October Revolution, she gave the work of Sergei Yesenin a new, special power. Singing love for the motherland, he, one way or another, touches on the theme of revolution and freedom.
It is conventionally believed that in the post-revolutionary period there were two great poets: Sergei Yesenin and. During their lives, they were stubborn rivals, constantly competing in talent.
Although no one allowed himself to make mean statements about his opponent. The compilers of Yesenin's biography often quote his words:
“I am still Koltsov, and I love Blok. I am only learning from them and from Pushkin. What do you say. He knows how to write - that's true, but is it poetry, poetry? I don't love him. He has no order. Things are falling on things. From poetry, there should be order in life, but with Mayakovsky everything is like after an earthquake, and the corners of all things are so sharp that it hurts the eyes.
Yesenin's death
On December 28, 1925, Sergei Yesenin was found dead in the Angleterre Hotel in Leningrad. By official version he hanged himself after being treated for some time in a neuropsychiatric hospital.
I must say that, given the long depression of the poet, such a death was not news to anyone.
However, at the end of the twentieth century, thanks to lovers of Yesenin's work, new data began to emerge from the biography and death of Yesenin.
Due to the prescription of time, it is difficult to establish the exact events of those days, but the version that Yesenin was killed, and then only staged suicide, looks quite reliable. As it was in fact, we will probably never know.
Yesenin's biography, like his poems, is filled with a deep experience of life and all its paradoxes. The poet managed to feel and convey on paper all the features of the Russian soul.
Undoubtedly, he can be safely attributed to the great Russian poets, called a fine connoisseur of Russian life, as well as an amazing artist of the word.
Posthumous photo of Yesenin Yesenin's last verse
Goodbye my friend, goodbye.
My dear, you are in my chest.
Destined parting
Promises to meet in the future.
Goodbye, my friend, without a hand, without a word,
Do not be sad and do not sadness of the eyebrows, -
In this life, dying is not new,
But to live, of course, is not newer.
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