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Biography Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin was born on October 3, 1895 in the village of Konstantinovo, Ryazan province, into 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 studying at a closed church-teachers school. After graduating from school, in the fall of 1912, Yesenin arrived in Moscow, worked in a bookstore, 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 A. L. Shanyavsky as a volunteer student. He worked in a printing house and had contacts with poets of the Surikov literary and musical circle.

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In 1915, Yesenin's poems were first published in the children's magazine Mirok. 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 up for military service and assigned to the Tsarskoye Selo military hospital as an orderly. At this time, he became close to the group of “new peasant poets” and published the first collections (“Radunitsa” - 1916), which made him very famous. Together with Nikolai Klyuyev, he often performed in front of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna and her daughters in Tsarskoe Selo.

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Personal life In 1913, Sergei Yesenin met Anna Romanovna Izryadnova. In 1914 they entered into a civil marriage. On December 21, 1914, Anna Izryadnova gave birth to a son named Yuri (shot in 1937). In 1917-1921, Yesenin was married to actress Zinaida Nikolaevna Reich, later the wife of Vsevolod Meyerhold. From this marriage were born a daughter, Tatyana, and a son, Konstantin, who later became a football journalist. In the fall of 1921, in the workshop of G. B. Yakulov, Yesenin met the dancer Isadora Duncan, whom he married on May 2, 1922. After the wedding, Yesenin accompanied Duncan on tours in Europe and the USA. Their marriage was brief, and in 1923 Yesenin returned to Moscow. On May 12, 1924, Yesenin had a son, Alexander, from translator Nadezhda Volpin, who later became a famous mathematician and figure in the dissident movement. In the fall of 1925, Yesenin married for the fourth time - to Sofya Andreevna Tolstoy, the granddaughter of L.N. Tolstoy.

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Poetry From his first collections of poetry (“Radunitsa”, 1916; “Rural Book of Hours”, 1918) he appeared as a subtle lyricist, a master of deeply psychologized landscape, a singer of peasant Rus', an expert on the folk language and the folk soul. In 1919-1923 he was a member of the Imagist group. A tragic attitude and mental confusion are expressed in the cycles “Mare’s Ships” (1920), “Moscow Tavern” (1924), and the poem “The Black Man” (1925). In the poem “The Ballad of the Twenty-Six” (1924), dedicated to the Baku commissars, the collection “Soviet Rus'” (1925), and the poem “Anna Snegina” (1925), Yesenin sought to comprehend the “commune uplifted Rus',” although he continued to feel like a poet of “Leaving Rus'” ", "golden log hut". Dramatic poem “Pugachev” (1921).

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Death of the poet On December 28, 1925, Yesenin was found dead in the Leningrad Angleterre Hotel. His last poem - “Goodbye, my friend, goodbye...” - was written in this hotel in blood, and according to the testimony of 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 biographers of the poet, Yesenin, in a state of depression, committed suicide. He was buried on December 31, 1925 in Moscow at the Vagankovskoye cemetery.

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Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin was born on September 21, 1895. in the village of Konstantinov, Ryazan province. Soon Yesenin’s father left for Moscow and got a job as a clerk, so Yesenin was sent to be raised in the family of his maternal grandfather. My grandfather had three adult unmarried sons. Sergei Yesenin later wrote: “My uncles (my grandfather’s three unmarried sons) were mischievous brothers. When I was three and a half years old they put me on a horse without a saddle and let me gallop. They also taught me how to swim: they put me in a boat, sailed to the middle of the lake and threw me into the water. When I was eight years old, I replaced one of my uncle’s hunting dogs and swam through the water after shot ducks.”

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Sergei Yesenin's parents: father Alexander Nikitich Yesenin (1873 - 1931), mother - Tatyana Fedorovna Yesenina, nee Titova (1875 - 1955). On her knees is Alexandra's daughter

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When little Sergei was 2 years old, his mother left his father, went to work in Ryazan, and his maternal grandparents, Natalya Evtikhievna and Fedor Andreevich Titov, were raising the boy. My grandfather’s family was quite wealthy; in addition to little Seryozha, his three unmarried sons lived in Fyodor Andreevich’s house, with whom the future poet spent a lot of time. It was they who taught the boy to swim, ride a horse and work in the field.

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In 1904 Sergei Yesenin was taken to the Konstantinovsky Zemstvo School, where he studied for five years. In 1909 He graduated from the Konstantinovsky Zemstvo School and his parents sent Sergei to a parochial school in the village of Spas-Klepiki. In 1912 Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin, having graduated from the Spas-Klepikovskaya teacher's school, moved to Moscow and settled with his father in a dormitory for clerks. His father got Sergei to work in the office, but soon Yesenin left there and got a job at I. Sytin’s printing house as an assistant proofreader.

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In 1904, Yesenin was sent to study at the Zemstvo School in Konstantinovo, after which, in 1909, he entered the Spas-Klepikovsky Church Teachers' School, from which he left in 1912, receiving a diploma as a “literacy school teacher.” Education

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From his grandmother, Sergei Yesenin learned many folk tales, songs and ditties; according to the poet himself, it was his grandmother’s stories that became the first impetus for writing his own poems. The boy’s grandfather, in turn, was an expert in church books, so nightly readings were traditional in the family.

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Sergei Yesenin with his sisters Ekaterina and Alexandra (Shura); Yesenina Ekaterina Alexandrovna (1905 - 1977); Yesenina Alexandra Alexandrovna (1911 - June 1, 1981);

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Immediately after graduating from school, Sergei Alexandrovich moved to Moscow, where at that time his father was already working in a butcher shop. At first, Sergei lived with him, worked in the same butcher shop, then got a job in the printing house of I. D. Sytin. The next year, Yesenin entered the historical and philosophical department at the Shanyavsky Moscow City People's University as a free student.

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Anna Romanovna Izryadnova (1891 - 1946). Photo - 1910s. In the fall of 1913, Sergei Yesenin (18 years old) entered into a civil marriage with Anna Romanovna Izryadnova. On December 21, 1914, their son Yuri (George) was born. Further events developed in such a way that they parted sadly and tenderly, without quarrels or scandals. During his life with Anna Romanovna, Yesenin wrote about 70 famous poems that became Russian classics. During his life, Yesenin helped Izryadnova financially and visited his son. He came just before his death.

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In Moscow, Yesenin published his first poem “Birch”, which was published in the Moscow children's magazine “Mirok”. The white birch tree under my window is covered with snow, like silver. On the fluffy branches, like a snowy border, brushes blossomed like a white fringe. And the birch tree stands in sleepy silence, and snowflakes burn in golden fire. And the dawn, lazily going around, sprinkles the branches with new silver.

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In 1915, Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin went to Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) and met there with the great poets of Russia of the 20th century: Blok, Gorodetsky, Klyuev. In 1916, Yesenin published his first collection of poems, “Radunitsa,” which included poems such as “Do not wander, do not crush in the crimson bushes,” “The hewn roads began to sing,” and others. Poets - Sergei Yesenin (left) and Nikolai Klyuev Photo - 1916.

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In the first half of 1916, Yesenin was drafted into the army, but thanks to the efforts of his friends, he received an appointment ("with the highest permission") as an orderly on the Tsarskoe Selo military sanitary train No. 143 of Her Imperial Majesty Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, which allows him to freely attend literary salons and visit at receptions with patrons, performing at concerts. At one of the concerts in the infirmary to which he was assigned (the empress and princesses also served as nurses here), he meets the royal family.

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Yesenin's wife, actress - Zinaida Nikolaevna Reich (1894 - 1939) On July 30, 1917, Yesenin (21 years old) got married to actress Zinaida Reich in the Church of Kirik and Ulita, Vologda district. On May 29, 1918, their daughter Tatyana was born, whom Yesenin loved very much. On February 3, 1920, after Yesenin separated from Zinaida Reich, their son Konstantin was born. On October 2, 1921, the people's court of Orel ruled to dissolve Yesenin's marriage to Reich. Next, Sergei Yesenin helped Zinaida financially and visited the children. In 1922, Zinaida Reich married director Vsevolod Emilievich Meyerhold (1874 - 1940), he was 20 years older than her.

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Children of Sergei Yesenin and Zinaida Reich: Konstantin Sergeevich Yesenin (02/03/1920, Moscow - 04/26/1986, Moscow), buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery. He was a famous football statistician. Tatyana Sergeevna Yesenina (1918 - 1992). Member of the Writers' Union. Lived in Tashkent. Director of the Sergei Yesenin Museum.

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At the beginning of 1918 Yesenin moved to Moscow. Having met the revolution with enthusiasm, he wrote several short poems ("The Jordan Dove", "Inonia", "Heavenly Drummer", all 1918, etc.), imbued with a joyful anticipation of the "transformation" of life. They combine godless sentiments with biblical imagery to indicate the scale and significance of the events taking place. Yesenin, glorifying the new reality and its heroes, tried to correspond to the times ("Cantata", 1919). In later years he wrote “Song of the Great March”, 1924, “Captain of the Earth”, 1925, etc.). Reflecting on “where the fate of events is taking us,” the poet turns to history (dramatic poem “Pugachev”, 1921). Sergei Yesenin at the birch tree. Photo - 1918.

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Searches in the field of imagery bring Yesenin closer to A. B. Mariengof, V. G. Shershenevich, R. Ivnev, at the beginning of 1919 they united in a group of imagists; Yesenin becomes a regular at the Pegasus Stable, a literary café of Imagists at the Nikitsky Gate in Moscow. However, the poet only partly shared their platform, the desire to cleanse the form of the “dust of content.” His aesthetic interests are directed to the patriarchal village way of life, folk art and the spiritual fundamental principle of the artistic image (treatise “The Keys of Mary”, 1919). Already in 1921, Yesenin appeared in print criticizing the “buffoonish antics for the sake of antics” of his “brothers” Imagists. Gradually, fanciful metaphors are leaving his lyrics. Sergei Yesenin (left) and Anatoly Borisovich Mariengof (1897 - 1962). Moscow, summer. Photo - 1919.

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In the early 1920s. in Yesenin’s poems there appear motifs of “storm-ravaged everyday life” of drunken prowess, giving way to hysterical melancholy. The poet appears as a hooligan, a brawler, a drunkard with a bloody soul, hobbling “from den to den,” where he is surrounded by “alien and laughing rabble” (collections “Confession of a Hooligan,” 1921; “Moscow Tavern,” 1924).

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Isadora's adopted daughter Irma Duncan (1898 - 1978), Isadora Duncan, Sergei Yesenin. Moscow. Photo - May, 1922. Yesenin met Isadora Duncan, who was 18 years older, in the fall of 1921 in the workshop of G. B. Yakulov. Yesenin and Duncan were married on May 3, 1922, and Isadora accepted Russian citizenship. After the wedding, we went to Europe - we were in Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, and lived for four months in the USA. The trip lasted from May 1922 to August 1923.

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Sergei Yesenin and Isadora Duncan, on the streets of Venice. Photo - August 1922. Sergei Yesenin and Isadora Duncan on the ship "Paris". Photo (3) - October 1, 1922.

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Their marriage, despite the passion of the relationship, was brief, and soon there was a break. They were divorced. In 1924, Duncan returned to the United States. Isadora did not survive Yesenin for long - by 1 year and 8 months. In Nice, tying her long blood-red scarf, she went for a car ride. Her last words were: “Farewell, friends! I’m going to glory.” The scarf wrapped around the wheel and tightened the death noose around the dancer's neck. The death was instant.

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3. He studied at the Konstantinovsky Zemsky School, then graduated from the Spas-Klepikovsky school, where rural teachers were trained. After graduation, he lived in the village for another year.

4. At the age of 17 he left for the Russian capital, where he worked for a merchant as a proofreader in an office; took part in the Surikov literary and musical circle, still continuing to write poetry.

5. In 1912 he entered the historical and philosophical department of the A. Shanyavsky People's University.

6. At the beginning of 1914, he began publishing his poetry in Moscow magazines.

7. In 1915, Sergei Yesenin went to live in St. Petersburg (then Petrograd) and almost immediately met Blok, in whose house he found a warm welcome and approval of his poetry. The poet’s talent is recognized by Klyuev and Gorodetsky, with whom Blok introduces him.

8. Almost all the lyrics brought by the poet are printed in Moscow, which immediately become loved by many. Since 1916, Yesenin’s first book, “Radunitsa,” was published, then (from 1914 to 1917) “Dove,” “Martha the Posadnitsa” and others.

9. Since 1916, Sergei Yesenin has been conscripted for military service, from where he subsequently leaves without permission, and works with the Socialist Revolutionaries as a “poet.” At the time of the revolution, he was in a disciplinary battalion, where he ended up because he refused to write a poem for the Tsar. During the split of the party, he joined the left group and was among their fighting squad.

10. I accepted the onset of the peasant revolution with all joy. From 1918 to 21, he traveled a lot across the expanses of the country, visiting Arkhangelsk, Murmansk, the Caucasus, Crimea, Bessarabia, and Turkestan.

11. In 1922-23, he went on a trip to Europe (France, Belgium, Italy, Germany) with his beloved, the famous American dancer Isadora Duncan; lived in the USA for four months.

12. Sergei Yesenin’s poetry is full of ardent love for his native land, for people and nature, but his lyrics sometimes contain notes of sadness and disappointment, because the poet later regretted supporting the revolution. In 1924-25 such famous poems as “Persian Motifs”, “Departing Rus'”, “Letter to Mother” were written. Shortly before his death, he writes one of his most famous creations: the tragic poem “The Black Man”.

13. The life of Sergei Yesenin ends tragically. According to the official version of the authorities, he committed suicide (the tragedy occurred in the Petrograd Angleterre Hotel). But many believe that the Soviet authorities committed reprisals against the poet. The poet was buried at the Vagankovskoye cemetery.


The presentation was made to tell primary school students (grades 1 - 4) about the glorious Russian poet Sergei Yesenin, whose 120th birthday is celebrated this year. Since childhood, schoolchildren have enjoyed reading poems about bird cherry and white birch, but not every child knows who the author of these light, poetic lines is. They are even more surprised that this wonderful author was born more than a century ago. It’s not worth telling younger schoolchildren during a reading lesson or class about the tragedy in Yesenin’s life, but children will be pleased to see illustrative material and listen to a story about the poet’s family, about his parents, his beloved grandparents, about what made him a poet and what gave him him with such talent, from where he drew such a great love for the Motherland.


A presentation of 26 slides introduces the viewer to the biography of Sergei Yesenin. You can talk about this person with children endlessly, but in order to fit within the allotted framework of the lesson and not miss important biographical facts, we suggest downloading a computer development and gradually, step by step, talk about the life of the poet, introducing the main events and dates associated with his work.

  • S. Yesenin about his childhood;
  • moving to Moscow;
  • participation in the revolutionary movement;
  • poet's debut;
  • meeting writers;
  • meeting with Isadora Duncan;
  • tragedy that took a life.


The presentation contains a story about the life and work of Sergei Yesenin, a poet who is beloved by many. Today's schoolchildren sometimes consider this young-at-heart master of the poetic word to be their contemporary, despite the fact that 2015 marks the 120th anniversary of his birth. You can talk about the life and work of S. A. Yesenin and introduce students to his biography in literature lessons. The manual can be downloaded for free to watch with children at the library or during class. The use of the manual is intended for middle and high schools (grades 8 - 11).

Computer development about the Russian romantic, a talented writer and simply a wonderful person, made on 11 slides:

  • origins (about childhood, family and place of birth);
  • poet of the century (first book “Radunitsa”);
  • romance between a poet and a dancer;
  • life and its vicissitudes;
  • excerpts from poetry;
  • tragic ending.


The presentation on the topic “Sergei Yesenin” contains the writer’s autobiographical story about what his life was like. Every word written on the pages of the resource belongs to the poet. He spoke briefly and laconically about himself only when necessary, without bragging or flaunting facts. His words are supplemented with illustrative material. The result is a wonderful manual for children, which can be downloaded both for classroom hours in elementary school and for literature lessons in grades 6, 7, 8.

Biography of Sergei Yesenin

Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin was born on September 21, 1895. in the village of Konstantinov, Ryazan province. Soon Yesenin’s father left for Moscow and got a job as a clerk, so Yesenin was sent to be raised in the family of his maternal grandfather. My grandfather had three adult unmarried sons. Sergei Yesenin later wrote: “My uncles (my grandfather’s three unmarried sons) were mischievous brothers. When I was three and a half years old they put me on a horse without a saddle and let me gallop. They also taught me how to swim: they put me in a boat, sailed to the middle of the lake and threw me into the water. When I was eight years old, I replaced one of my uncle’s hunting dogs and swam through the water after shot ducks.”

Sergei Yesenin's parents: father Alexander Nikitich Yesenin (1873 - 1931), mother - Tatyana Fedorovna Yesenina, nee Titova (1875 - 1955). On her knees is Alexandra's daughter

In 1904 Sergei Yesenin was taken to the Konstantinovsky Zemstvo School, where he studied for five years. In 1909 He graduated from the Konstantinovsky Zemstvo School and his parents sent Sergei to a parochial school in the village of Spas-Klepiki. In 1912 Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin, having graduated from the Spas-Klepikovskaya teacher's school, moved to Moscow and settled with his father in a dormitory for clerks. His father got Sergei to work in the office, but soon Yesenin left there and got a job at I. Sytin’s printing house as an assistant proofreader.

Sergei Yesenin with his sisters Ekaterina and Alexandra (Shura); Yesenina Ekaterina Alexandrovna (1905 - 1977); Yesenina Alexandra Alexandrovna (1911 - June 1, 1981);

Anna Romanovna Izryadnova (1891 - 1946). Photo - 1910s. In the fall of 1913, Sergei Yesenin (18 years old) entered into a civil marriage with Anna Romanovna Izryadnova. On December 21, 1914, their son Yuri (George) was born. Further events developed in such a way that they parted sadly and tenderly, without quarrels or scandals. During his life with Anna Romanovna, Yesenin wrote about 70 famous poems that became Russian classics. During his life, Yesenin helped Izryadnova financially and visited his son. He came just before his death.

In Moscow, Yesenin published his first poem “Birch”, which was published in the Moscow children's magazine “Mirok”. The white birch tree under my window is covered with snow, like silver. On the fluffy branches, like a snowy border, brushes blossomed like a white fringe. And the birch tree stands in sleepy silence, and snowflakes burn in golden fire. And the dawn, lazily going around, sprinkles the branches with new silver.

In 1915, Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin went to Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) and met there with the great poets of Russia of the 20th century: Blok, Gorodetsky, Klyuev. In 1916, Yesenin published his first collection of poems, “Radunitsa,” which included poems such as “Do not wander, do not crush in the crimson bushes,” “The hewn roads began to sing,” and others. Poets - Sergei Yesenin (left) and Nikolai Klyuev Photo - 1916.

In the first half of 1916, Yesenin was drafted into the army, but thanks to the efforts of his friends, he received an appointment ("with the highest permission") as an orderly on the Tsarskoe Selo military sanitary train No. 143 of Her Imperial Majesty Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, which allows him to freely attend literary salons and visit at receptions with patrons, performing at concerts. At one of the concerts in the infirmary to which he was assigned (the empress and princesses also served as nurses here), he meets the royal family.

Yesenin's wife, actress - Zinaida Nikolaevna Reich (1894 - 1939) On July 30, 1917, Yesenin (21 years old) got married to actress Zinaida Reich in the Church of Kirik and Ulita, Vologda district. On May 29, 1918, their daughter Tatyana was born, whom Yesenin loved very much. On February 3, 1920, after Yesenin separated from Zinaida Reich, their son Konstantin was born. On October 2, 1921, the people's court of Orel ruled to dissolve Yesenin's marriage to Reich. Next, Sergei Yesenin helped Zinaida financially and visited the children. In 1922, Zinaida Reich married director Vsevolod Emilievich Meyerhold (1874 - 1940), he was 20 years older than her.

Children of Sergei Yesenin and Zinaida Reich: Konstantin Sergeevich Yesenin (02/03/1920, Moscow - 04/26/1986, Moscow), buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery. He was a famous football statistician. Tatyana Sergeevna Yesenina (1918 - 1992). Member of the Writers' Union. Lived in Tashkent. Director of the Sergei Yesenin Museum.

At the beginning of 1918 Yesenin moved to Moscow. Having met the revolution with enthusiasm, he wrote several short poems ("The Jordan Dove", "Inonia", "Heavenly Drummer", all 1918, etc.), imbued with a joyful anticipation of the "transformation" of life. They combine godless sentiments with biblical imagery to indicate the scale and significance of the events taking place. Yesenin, glorifying the new reality and its heroes, tried to correspond to the times ("Cantata", 1919). In later years he wrote “Song of the Great March”, 1924, “Captain of the Earth”, 1925, etc.). Reflecting on “where the fate of events is taking us,” the poet turns to history (dramatic poem “Pugachev”, 1921). Sergei Yesenin at the birch tree. Photo - 1918.

Searches in the field of imagery bring Yesenin closer to A. B. Mariengof, V. G. Shershenevich, R. Ivnev, at the beginning of 1919 they united in a group of imagists; Yesenin becomes a regular at the Pegasus Stable, a literary café of Imagists at the Nikitsky Gate in Moscow. However, the poet only partly shared their platform, the desire to cleanse the form of the “dust of content.” His aesthetic interests are directed to the patriarchal village way of life, folk art and the spiritual fundamental principle of the artistic image (treatise “The Keys of Mary”, 1919). Already in 1921, Yesenin appeared in print criticizing the “buffoonish antics for the sake of antics” of his “brothers” Imagists. Gradually, fanciful metaphors are leaving his lyrics. Sergei Yesenin (left) and Anatoly Borisovich Mariengof (1897 - 1962). Moscow, summer. Photo - 1919.

In the early 1920s. in Yesenin’s poems there appear motifs of “storm-ravaged everyday life” of drunken prowess, giving way to hysterical melancholy. The poet appears as a hooligan, a brawler, a drunkard with a bloody soul, hobbling “from den to den,” where he is surrounded by “alien and laughing rabble” (collections “Confession of a Hooligan,” 1921; “Moscow Tavern,” 1924).

Isadora's adopted daughter Irma Duncan (1898 - 1978), Isadora Duncan, Sergei Yesenin. Moscow. Photo - May, 1922. Yesenin met Isadora Duncan, who was 18 years older, in the fall of 1921 in the workshop of G. B. Yakulov. Yesenin and Duncan were married on May 3, 1922, and Isadora accepted Russian citizenship. After the wedding, we went to Europe - we were in Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, and lived for four months in the USA. The trip lasted from May 1922 to August 1923.

Sergei Yesenin and Isadora Duncan, on the streets of Venice. Photo - August 1922. Sergei Yesenin and Isadora Duncan on the steamer "Paris". Photo (3) - October 1, 1922.

Their marriage, despite the passion of the relationship, was brief, and soon there was a break. They were divorced. In 1924, Duncan returned to the United States. Isadora did not survive Yesenin for long - by 1 year and 8 months. In Nice, tying her long blood-red scarf, she went for a car ride. Her last words were: “Farewell, friends! I’m going to glory.” The scarf wrapped around the wheel and tightened the death noose around the dancer's neck. The death was instant.

Yesenin returned to his homeland with joy, a feeling of renewal, a desire “to be a singer and a citizen... in the great states of the USSR.” During this period (1923-25) his best lines were created: the poems “The golden grove dissuaded...”, “Letter to mother”, “Now we are leaving little by little...”, the cycle “Persian motives”, the poem “Anna Snegina” etc. The main place in his poems still belongs to the theme of the homeland, which now acquires dramatic shades. The once single harmonious world of Yesenin’s Rus' bifurcates: “Soviet Rus'”, “Leaving Rus'”. The motif of the competition between old and new (“red-maned foal” and “a train on cast-iron paws”), outlined in the poem “Sorokoust” (1920), is being developed in the poems of recent years: recording the signs of a new life, welcoming “stone and steel,” Yesenin increasingly feels like a singer of a “golden log hut”, whose poetry “is no longer needed here” (collections “Soviet Rus'”, “Soviet Country”, both 1925). The emotional dominant of the lyrics of this period are autumn landscapes, motives of summing up, and farewells.

One of his last works was the poem “Country of Scoundrels,” in which he denounced the Soviet regime. After this, he began to be persecuted in the newspapers, accusing him of drunkenness, fighting, etc. The last two years of Yesenin’s life were spent in constant travel: hiding from prosecution, he travels to the Caucasus three times, goes to Leningrad several times, and Konstantinovo seven times. At the same time, he is once again trying to start a family life, but his union with S. A. Tolstoy (granddaughter of L. N. Tolstoy) was not happy. Sergei Yesenin and his last wife Sofya Andreevna Tolstaya-Yesenina (1900 - 1957). Photo - 1925.

On December 28, 1925, Yesenin was found in the Leningrad Angleterre hotel, hanging from a steam heating pipe. His last poem - “Goodbye, my friend, goodbye...” - was written in this hotel in blood, and according to the testimony of the poet’s friends, Yesenin complained that there was no ink in the room, and he was forced to write in blood. He was buried on December 31, 1925 in Moscow at the Vagankovskoye cemetery.

Any birch forest is a belfry according to Yesenin! No one will pray to her like that anymore. Like a temple, the birch tree rises in honor of the Poet. No one will throw themselves at the knife of truth like that anymore. Tatyana Smertina

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