In 1904, Yesenin went to the Konstantinovsky Zemstvo School, after which in 1909 he began his studies at the parochial second-class teacher's school (now the S. A. Yesenin Museum) in Spas-Klepiki. At the end of school, in the fall of 1912, Yesenin left home. He went to 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 A. L. Shanyavsky as a volunteer. He worked in a printing house, was friendly with the poets of the Surikov Literary and Musical Circle.
small digression
Thirty or forty years ago, all enthusiastic girls and even some young men of the Soviet Union discovered with spiritual awe the poets of the early twentieth century: S. Yesenin, A. Blok, the lyric V. Mayakovsky. The more advanced read Akhmatova, Gumilyov, Tsvetaeva, and some even Balmont and Kuzmin. Love for the poetry of the "Silver Age", to put it mildly, was not encouraged school curriculum, and for especially strong enthusiasm, one could even get into a conversation with the State Security Committee, and forever lose love for literature. But how beautiful and desirable were the verses of these decadents and renegades. How much was alien in them, far from the dullness of the everyday life of socialist life. How much longing for the unfulfilled and premonitions of a global catastrophe. It is strange that now these verses are almost not in demand, although a century later the society still has the same cocaine frenzy and a vague desire for a great rebellion, which will invariably end in great bloodshed. Texts containing "many letters", unfortunately, are not read by the population. But I so want to believe that the next generations will discover both the “beautiful lady” and the “gray-eyed king”, and hope dies last.We continue about Yesenin
In 1912, after graduating from school, Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin went to work in Moscow. There he gets a job at the printing house of I.D. Sytin as an assistant proofreader. Work in the printing house allowed the young poet to read many books, made it possible to become a member of the literary and musical Surikov circle. The first common-law wife of the poet, Anna Izryadnova, describes Yesenin of those years as follows: “He was known as a leader, attended meetings, distributed illegal literature. He pounced on books, read all his free time, spent all his salary on books, magazines, did not think at all how to live ... ".
But, in 1914, Yesenin quit his job and studies, and, according to Anna Izryadnova, devotes himself entirely to poetry. In 1914, the poet's works were first published in the children's magazine Mirok. In January, his poems begin to be published in other magazines and newspapers. In the same year, S. Yesenin and A. Izryadnova had a son, Yuri, who was shot in 1937.
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 war and, thanks to the efforts of his friends, he was appointed ("with the highest permission") as an orderly in the Tsarskoye Selo military hospital train No. 143 of Her Imperial Majesty the Empress 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 performed, including in front of 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.
Yesenin's move to Moscow
In early 1918 Yesenin moved to Moscow. Encouraged by the revolution, he writes several small poems ("Jordan Dove", "Inonia", "Heavenly Drummer", all 1918, etc.), imbued with a joyful foreboding of the "transformation" of life. God-fighting moods are combined in them with biblical imagery to indicate the scale and significance of the events taking place. Yesenin, singing the new reality and its heroes, tried to match the time ("Cantata", 1919). In later years, he wrote "Song of the Great Campaign", 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).
At 21, Yesenin writes a poem about the passing youth
The theme of the poem is the theme of the outgoing youth, youth. The main idea - farewell to youth - is a poignant feeling to which the author sings a song. The general emotional tone of the poem is elegiac, sad, but without despondency. It is created thanks to the elements of poetics.Special selection of vocabulary. Already the beginning of the poem carries a hint of farewell. recurring negative design with "not" enhances this connotation. In addition, the expressions “my life”, “wandering spirit”, as it were, explode, do not delay the elegiac mood.
The central stanzas are an appeal to your heart, a little “touched by the chill” and to own life. Rhythmically, the text is built quite clearly, this is facilitated by the pentameter trochee.
The poem is rich in metaphors, just like youth, youth is generous with events and joy. Quite unexpectedly, life is compared to a rider on a "pink horse". “Pink”, as an epithet, absorbs both unrealizable, wild dreams that are characteristic of youth (seeing life “in a pink light”, wearing “pink glasses” that embellish reality), and the color of the dawn. But in the next stanza, the color scheme changes the palette. The color of dreams, youth and youth turns into the copper color of maple leaves (such an association involuntarily suggests itself - about a person who has experienced a lot, seen a lot, they say "copper pipes have passed").
Five feet in a poem make the text smooth, soft. This is also facilitated by the female open rhyme, which is present in the first and third lines of quatrains. Alternating with male rhyme in the second and fourth lines, the author creates a cross rhyme, which gives clarity and completeness to the work. Such a construction of the text once again emphasizes the idea that youth is fleeting, and life in the perishable world, the complexities of which are not noticed in youth, is replacing the “resonant spring early”.
The poem is elegant in its sound organization. The consonants "l", "m", "n" give softness and smoothness to the sound.
Thus, the main components of poetics correspond to the emotional tone, theme, idea of the poem. Thanks to a special selection of vocabulary, a simple construction of phrases, a peculiar sound selection, S. Yesenin's poem resonates in the hearts of readers of various ages. No wonder many of Yesenin's works, including this one, became popular songs in their time.
Homecoming
At the end of the summer of 1923, Sergei Yesenin returned to his homeland. Here the poet had another short affair with the translator Nadezhda Volpin, from whom the son Alexander was born. The newspaper "Izvestia" published the poet's notes about America "Iron Mirgorod".In 1924, Yesenin again became interested in traveling around the country, traveled to his homeland in Konstantinovo many times, visited Leningrad several times a year, then there were trips to the Caucasus, to Azerbaijan.
In one of the last poems, “The Country of Scoundrels,” Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin writes very sharply about the leaders of Russia, which entails criticism and a ban on the poet’s publications.
In 1924, creative differences and personal motives prompted S. A. Yesenin to break with Imagism and leave for the Transcaucasus.
Episodes of life
Although last years Yesenin abused alcohol during his life, he did not write poetry while drunk. The poet's memoirists also talk about this. Once Yesenin confessed to his friend: “The desperate fame of a drunkard and a bully follows me, but these are just words, and not such a terrible reality.”Dancer Duncan
Dancer Duncan fell in love with Yesenin almost at first sight. He, too, was very interested in her, despite the tangible difference in age. Isadora dreamed of glorifying her Russian husband and took him with her on a tour - through Europe and America. Yesenin explained his scandalous behavior during the trip in his usual manner: “Yes, I made a row. I needed them to know me, so they would remember me. What, I'm going to read poetry to them? Poems for Americans? I would only become ridiculous in their eyes. But to drag the tablecloth with all the dishes from the table, to whistle in the theater, to violate the traffic order - this is clear to them. If I do this, I am a millionaire. I mean, I can. So respect is ready, and glory and honor! Oh, they remember me better than Duncan!” In fact, Yesenin quickly realized that abroad he was only "Duncan's husband" for everyone, broke off relations with the dancer and returned home.
Unsuccessful marriage with Sophia
In the autumn of 1925, Yesenin married Leo Tolstoy's granddaughter Sophia, but the marriage was not successful. At this time, he actively opposed Jewish dominance in Russia. The poet and his friends are accused of anti-Semitism, for which they were supposed to be shot. Yesenin spent the last year of his life in illness, wandering and drunkenness. Because of heavy drinking S. A. Yesenin spent some time in the psycho-neurological clinic of Moscow University. However, due to persecution by law enforcement agencies, the poet was forced to leave the clinic. On December 23, Sergei Yesenin leaves Moscow for Leningrad. Stays at the Angleterre Hotel. Poets death
In this hotel, in room number 5, on December 28, 1925, Sergei was found dead.Criminal case law enforcement they did not initiate, despite the fact that there were signs of a violent death on the body. Until now, officially there is only one version - suicide. It is explained by the deep depression in which the poet was in the last months of his life.
Yesenin was buried on the last day of the outgoing 1925 in Moscow at the Vagankovsky cemetery.
In the 80s, versions appeared and began to develop more and more that the poet was killed, and then staged suicide. Such a crime is attributed to people who worked in those years in the OGPU. But for now, all this remains just versions.
The great poet managed for his such short life leave to the descendants living on Earth, an invaluable legacy in the form of their poetry. A subtle lyric poet with knowledge of the people's soul masterfully described peasant Russia in his poems. Many of his works have been set to music, resulting in excellent romances.
The best poems of Yesenin:
THE 1 OF MAY 
There is music, poetry and dancing,
There are lies and flattery...
Let me be scolded for stanzas -
They have truth.
I saw a holiday, a holiday of May -
And amazed.
I was ready to bend, hugging
All virgins and wives.
Where will you go, who will you tell
On someone's "henna"
What in the solar yarn bathed
Balakhani?
Well, how can you not carve a hymn in your heart,
Do not fall into a shiver?
Walked, sang forty thousand
And they drank too.
Poetry! poetry! Not very left!
I'm sorry! I'm sorry!
We drank to the health of oil
And for the guests.
And, raising my first glass,
With one nod
I drank on this May holiday
For the Council of People's Commissars.
The second glass, so, not very
Lie down in the rubber
I drank proudly for the workers
Under someone's speech.
And I drank my third glass,
Like some khan
For not bending in a wheeze
The fate of the peasants
Drink, heart! Just don't point blank
To destroy life ...
That's why I drank the fourth
Only for you.
Oh, how many cats in the world,
You and I will never count them.
The heart dreams of sweet peas,
And the blue star is ringing.
Will I wake up, in delirium or awake,
I only remember from a distant day -
A kitten was purring on the couch,
Looking at me indifferently.
I was still a child then
But jump to grandmother's song
He rushed like a young tiger cub,
On the ball she dropped.
Everything is gone. I lost my grandmother
And a few years later
They made a hat out of that cat
And our grandfather wore it out.
Yesenin's holiday: features of the celebration
In the modern calendar you can find great amount holidays, both Orthodox and Christian, celebrated at the official level. However, unfortunately, there is no celebration of events dedicated to anniversaries in it. the greatest figures art, poetry. I would like to tell you about one of these holidays in more detail. This is about Yesenin's holiday.Bazaar and flower laying
This holiday takes place in the poet's homeland, namely in the village of Konstantinovo, Ryazan region, and is celebrated on the writer's birthday - October 3, since 1985. Every year it gathers a huge number of admirers of the work of this wonderful artist from all over the Russian Federation.
The holiday begins with a bazaar-exhibition of works by local craftsmen, which is usually held on the Central Square. Everyone can buy a variety of crafts made of wood, straw or take part in their creation as a souvenir or as a gift to someone.
Then people go to the monument to Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin to lay flowers. By the way, they say that if you hold on to the finger on the poet's right hand, it's good luck. Visitors very often use this ritual.
Continuation of the celebration
After laying flowers at the monument to the poet, people visit local attractions: the school where Sergei Yesenin once studied, the balsam poplar planted by the poet himself in 1924, and the State Museum-Reserve in honor of this writer, which hosts an exhibition from the museum's funds , holiday excursions.
Then the celebration is transferred to the theater and poetry venues, on the stages of which there are performances in honor of the birthday of this great figure, recitation of his poems by other poets and everyone.
This year, by the way, marks the 120th anniversary of the birth of the great Russian poet. And the people adequately honored the memory of this truly talented poet by organizing concerts, exhibitions and literary meetings throughout the country. And in the village of Konstantinovo itself, people honored the memory of the poet with folk festivals along the Oka River, poetic performances and theatrical performances. And the most striking event of this day was the staging of the play “Hooligan. Confession ”, in which such a famous artist as Sergey Bezrukov took part.
A few more verses
The ships are sailing
To Constantinople.
Trains leave for Moscow.
From human noise
Or from the osprey
Every day I feel
Longing.
I'm far away
Far abandoned
even closer
It looks like the moon.
Handfuls of water peas
Splashing Black Sea
Wave.
Every day
I come to the pier
I follow everyone
Who is not sorry
And I look harder and harder
And closer
Into the enchanted distance
Maybe from Le Havre
Ile Marseille
will sail
Louise il Jeannette,
that I remember
hitherto,
But which
Not at all.
The smell of the sea in the taste
Smoky bitter
May be,
Miss Mitchell
Or Claude
I will be remembered
In New York,
After reading this thing translation.
All we are looking for
In this world of storm
Calling us
Invisible traces. 
Not from that
Like lamps with lampshades
Do jellyfish glow from the water?
Because
When meeting a foreigner
I'm under the violins
Schooner and ships
I hear a voice
Weeping hurdy-gurdy
Ile distant
The cry of the cranes.
Isn't that her?
Isn't she?
Well, maybe in life
Can you figure it out?
If now her
caught up
And sped away
Flared trousers.
Every day
I come to the pier
I follow everyone
Who is not sorry
And I look harder and harder
And closer
Into the enchanted distance
And others are here
They live differently.
And not without reason at night
A whistle is heard -
This means,
With the dexterity of a dog
A smuggler is on his way.
The border guard is not afraid
Fast.
The one he noticed will not go away
Enemy,
That's why so often
A shot is heard
On sea, salty
Shores.
But the enemy is alive
No matter how you blow it
Because it turns blue
All Batum.
Even the sea seems to me
Indigo
Under the tabloid
Laughter and noise.
And there is something to laugh
Cause.
After all, not so much
In the world of divas.
Walks crazy
old man,
Planting a rooster in the dark.
Laughing myself
I'm going back to the pier
I follow everyone
Who is not sorry
And I look harder and harder
And closer
Into the enchanted distance
It's hard and sad for me to see
How my brother dies.
And I try to hate everyone
Who is at enmity with his silence.
Look how he works in the field
Plows hard ground with a plow,
And listen to songs about grief,
What he sings, walking a furrow.
Or do you not have tender pity
To the sufferer of a plow with a harrow?
You see the death you yourself inevitable,
And you pass by him.
Help me to fight the wickedness
Filled with wine, and with need!
Or do not you hear, he is crying shares
In your song, walking the furrow?
Culinary preferences of Sergei Yesenin
In 2015, it was 120 years since the birth and 90 years since the death of one of the "golden voices" of Russian poetry - Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin. His poems are an unusual depth of love for the motherland. Nature and Yesenin are an inseparable whole. As a child, the future poet spent a lot of time on the banks of the river, where he collected duck eggs and from where he brought large crayfish. He loved to fish. The passion for fishing remained in the future. The poet also participated in peasant haymaking. The peasants had to feed well the mowers and the boys who helped them, who often remained to live in the field. For this, food was stored: bacon, eggs, cottage cheese, yogurt. The hostesses baked pancakes, dracheny. Cooked compotes. Everyone took care of the mowers, who had a hard time getting hay.After the First World War, people in the villages became impoverished and baked bread with the addition of sorrel, quinoa, and chaff.
To the young poet it was not easy in the capital, where he moved with a notebook of his poems. When Yesenin in 1915 came to the then-famous Alexander Blok, he did not notice in a conversation how he ate a bun. Blok also offered scrambled eggs. The young body did not have the strength to refuse treats.
Yesenin himself was a hospitable person. There were always guests in his house. Yesenin himself liked to get up at exactly 9 o'clock. By this time, a samovar was buzzing on the table, white rolls beloved by the poet beckoned with a delicious smell. Yesenin liked to have tea.
In the cafe of the Imaginists, Sergei Yesenin participated in a clubbing: they bought bread and sausage with money collected from their pockets, and sandwiches were made. There was no money for more. Poets were almost always hungry. Once, while talking, they also did not notice how they ate a large piece of butter without bread from the journalist L. Povitsky.
It so happened that, after all, Yesenin did not have his own house, which he dreamed of. It was hard for him. The manuscripts were in different places, they had to go back and forth, so in the poet's pocket there could be a bundle with something edible, for example, pickles. When Yesenin lived in Rostov in a service car, he always had a samovar on his table, the poet treated the guests to tea.
During a trip to Tashkent, I enjoyed eating fruit, shish kebabs, pilaf, drinking green tea there.
In Georgia, he tried dogwood juice, which he liked.
Before his death, Yesenin ended up in a hospital, from which he escaped. He went to the Mouse Hole Cafe. I ordered sausages there. stewed cabbage and beer.
Yesenin loved borscht with ears. Fans of the poet and Russian cuisine should know his recipe.
It is necessary to stew 200 grams of beets and two carrots until half cooked, after chopping them. Fry an onion with two tomatoes with flour. Add all of the above to the pot with boiled cabbage. Cook until cooked and add spices to taste.
Ears were preparing for borscht: boiled buckwheat porridge mixed with sautéed onions. Thinly rolled out the usual dough from water, flour, eggs, salt, cut rhombuses. The filling was placed in rhombuses. The edges moistened with the egg were splintered. These rhombuses were then baked in the oven. Borscht was served with ears, sour cream and herbs.
Another borscht was prepared with mushrooms. The beets baked in the oven were peeled and chopped into strips. Onions, carrots, parsley root were cut into strips before frying. All vegetables and mushrooms were poured with kvass, salted and boiled until tender. This is an old Pskov-style borscht - Pechersk.
Cooked borscht, which Sergei Yesenin loved, can be considered a tribute to the memory of a wonderful poet and good man who did not have to get up for breakfast on December 28, 1925.
More poems
At the threshold in a bowl of kvass,
Over turned stoves
Cockroaches climb into the groove.
Soot curls over the damper,
In the oven, the threads of popelits,
And on the bench behind the salt shaker -
Husks of raw eggs.
Mother with grips will not cope,
bending low,
An old cat sneaks up to the shawl
For fresh milk.
Restless chickens chuckle
Over the shafts of the plow,
In the yard I will have a slender dinner
The roosters are singing.
And in the window on the canopy are sloped,
From the fearful noise
From the corners puppies are curly
They crawl into collars.
In Horossan there are such doors,
Where the threshold is strewn with roses.
A pensive peri lives there.
In Horossan there are such doors,
But I couldn't open those doors.
I have enough strength in my hands
There is gold and copper in the hair.
Peri's voice is soft and beautiful.
I have enough strength in my hands
But I couldn't open the door.
And why? To whom should I sing songs?
If you became jealous Step,
If I couldn't open the door,
Courage is useless in my love.
Persia! Am I leaving you?
I'm parting with you forever
Out of love for my native land?
It's time for me to go back to Russia.
Goodbye, peri, goodbye,
Let me not be able to open the door,
You gave beautiful suffering
About you in my homeland I sing.
Goodbye, peri, goodbye.
The evening furrowed black eyebrows.
Someone's horses are standing in the yard.
Was it not yesterday that I drank away my youth?
Did I fall out of love with you not yesterday?
Don't snore, belated trio!
Our lives have gone by without a trace.
Maybe tomorrow a hospital bed
Will put me at ease forever.
Maybe tomorrow will be different
I'll leave healed forever
Listen to the songs of rain and bird cherry,
How does a healthy person live?
I will forget the dark forces
That tormented me, ruining.
Sweet look! Cute face!
Only one I will not forget you.
Let me love another
But with her, with her beloved, on the other,
I'll tell you about you dear
That once I called dear.
I'll tell you how the past flowed
Our life that was not the former ...
Are you my daring head
What have you brought me to?
Sergei Yesenin, his life and work is a unique phenomenon in Russian history, culture and literature. Interest in him over the years not only does not fade away, but also periodically flares up with new force. The most heated discussion in recent years has been over the circumstances of his death.
In recent decades, new evidence and documents have been discovered that not only do not fit into the official version of the poet's suicide, but also convincingly confirm its inconsistency, and, as an alternative, logically lead to the conclusion of a murder. Recently, a distinct “Stalinist trace” has been revealed in the crime against Yesenin, with the “Stalinist style” characteristic of such unsolved crimes. However, there is a huge force of inertia, both official government institutions and official cultural institutions, which does not allow an objective investigation within the framework of modern legislation.
2. In 1909, Sergei Yesenin studied at the parochial teacher's school with Spas-Klepiki. Today it is no longer a school, but a museum of S.A. Yesenin.
3. After graduating from school in 1912, Yesenin went to Moscow, where he worked in a butcher's shop.
4. Yesenin was married three times. His last wife, Sofya Andreevna Tolstaya, was the granddaughter of Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy.
5. Yesenin's second marriage was notable for the fact that his wife (American dancer) Isadora Duncan practically did not speak Russian, and Sergei Alexandrovich himself did not speak English at all. As a result, their marriage lasted a little over a year. In 1968, a British-French film dedicated to this dancer was released, which is called Isadora. The role of Yesenin went to a certain Zvonimir Chrnko.
6. Sergei Yesenin is one of the many Russian poets whose poems were used in songs. AT different time songs based on Yesenin's poems were performed by Alexander Malinin ("Zabava"), the Alpha group, Lyudmila Zykina ("Hear, the sleigh is rushing"), Nadezhda Babkina ("Golden Grove Dissuaded"), Galina Nenasheva "Birch", Nikolai Karachentsov ("Queen") , Oleg Pogudin, Nikita Dzhigurda, gr. Mongol Shuudan ("Moscow"), Vika Tsyganova, Zemfira and many others.
7. Being married, Sergei Yesenin had an affair on the side with the poetess and translator Nadezhda Volpin. From this union, their illegitimate son Alexander was born in 1924. The man lived a long, fruitful life and bore the double surname Yesenin-Volpin.
8. On December 28, 1925, Yesenin is found hanged on a heating pipe in his room at the Angleterre Hotel. A farewell note was also found, written in blood in the form of a poem "Farewell my friend, farewell ...". Sergei was buried in Moscow at the Vagankovsky cemetery.
9. Many are still arguing about the death of Sergei Yesenin. It is said that he could not hang himself, as there was no reason for this. Contemporaries note that on the eve of his death he was cheerful and cheerful, in addition, he was looking forward to the release of his new collection of poems.
10. Sergei Yesenin had his own Literary Secretary Galina Arturovna Benislavskaya, who for five years was engaged in all Yesenin's literary affairs, negotiated with the editors. She was very devoted and attached to Yesenin, and according to Sergei's friends, she wanted to be Yesenin's only close friend. She even accused the poet's friends and his sister Ekaterina of trying in every possible way to destroy their relationship. Almost a year after Yesenin's death (December 3, 1926), Galina Benislavskaya shot herself at his grave at the Vagankovsky cemetery. She also left a suicide note containing the following lines: “In this grave, everything is most dear to me ...”
Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin was born September 21 (October 3), 1895 in with. Konstantinovo of the Ryazan district of the Ryazan province in the family of a peasant woman and a clerk. The mother of the future poet, Tatyana Titova, was married against her will, and soon, together with her three-year-old son, she went to her parents. Then she went to work in Ryazan, and Yesenin remained in the care of his grandparents, a connoisseur of church books. Yesenin's grandmother knew many songs, fairy tales and ditties, and, according to the poet himself, it was she who gave the "impulses" to write his first poems.
He began to write poetry at a second-class teacher's school in Spas-Klepiki, where he entered after graduating from a four-year school in Konstantinov in September 1909. The first poetic experiments are colored by the influence of S.Ya. Nadson. From the end of July 1912 to March 1915. lived in Moscow, where from September 1913 to the beginning of 1915 was a student of the historical and philosophical cycle of the academic department of the Moscow City People's University. A.L. Shanyavsky. Having tried many stylistic manners, by the end of the Moscow period he acquired his own poetic style, combining folk "peasant" imagery in the spirit of A.V. Koltsov with the achievements of Russian symbolism (primarily A.A. Blok). Also experienced a significant influence of A.A. Fet, tangible in the first published poem "Birch" (in the January issue of the Moscow children's magazine "Mirok" for 1914 , under the pseudonym Ariston).
At the beginning of March 1915 Yesenin arrived in Petrograd. Communication with A. Blok, S.M. Gorodetsky, Z.N. Gippius, D.S. Merezhkovsky, D.V. Filosofov convinced Yesenin of the need to enrich his lyrics with religious motifs demanded by Russian modernism. In the verses of his first book "Radunitsa" ( 1916 ) a kind of pantheism prevails (parallels between nature and the temple gracefully and unobtrusively introduced into the text), the style is distinguished by sparingly selected dialectisms. The very name of the book Radunitsa is often associated with the song warehouse of Yesenin's poems. On the one hand, Radunitsa is the day of commemoration of the dead; on the other hand, this word is associated with a cycle of spring folk songs, which have long been called Radovitsky or Radonitsky stoneflies.
An important milestone in Yesenin's poetic biography was his correspondence, and then the meeting ( in October 1915) with N.A. Klyuev, who took on the role of teacher and guardian of the young poet: in 1915-1917. his influence was manifested both in poetry and in the appearance of Yesenin, stylized as the fabulous Ivan Tsarevich.
February and October revolutions 1917 Yesenin took it with enthusiasm. In the infamous poem "Transfiguration" ( December 1917) he, drastically changing his manner, voluntarily or involuntarily translated the slogans of the International into the language of Old Testament legends. Yesenin loudly announced a change in his worldview priorities in the poem "Inonia" ( 1918 ) with its key image of the rejected Communion. In 1917-1918. Yesenin was closely associated with the Scythians group R.V. Ivanov-Razumnik, Andrey Bely became the main poetic authority for Yesenin. Yesenin's poetic achievements of this period were reflected not so much in his second book, Dove, published in Petrograd ( 1918 ), where verses were included 1916-1917., how many series of Moscow collections published in 1918-1920. (“Transfiguration”, “Country Book of Hours”, the second edition of “Radunitsa”, all 1918, and etc.).
Late 1918 - early 1919. Yesenin, together with A.B. Mariengof, V.G. Shershenevich and others created a group of Imagists. Not only the tactics of winning a resounding pop success with the help of scandals, but the very poetics of Imagism inherited Russian futurism. The synthesis of pop, designed for the indispensable pronunciation of the word, spectacular futuristic metaphors with "bottomless soil" (according to B. Pasternak's formula), provided Yesenin with unprecedented success with readers, especially with a very large stratum of yesterday's natives of the village. The most significant achievements of the Imagist period of Yesenin were his poem "Sorokoust" ( 1920 ), a book of poems "Confession of a Hooligan", as well as a dramatic poem "Pugachev" (both 1921 ). In the spirit of the ideas of Imagism, the most famous literary and critical work of Yesenin, the poetological treatise "Keys of Mary" ( 1919 ).
In October 1921 Yesenin met the American dancer A. Duncan; May 2, 1922 they officially registered their marriage (with July 1917 to October 1921 Yesenin was married to Z.N. Reich; from September 1925- on S.A. Tolstoy). Trips with Duncan in Europe and America ( May 1922 - August 1923) Yesenin undertook not least in the hope of world fame. The disappointment that befell the poet in these aspirations was reflected in his essay on America "Iron Mirgorod", published shortly after his return to Russia ( 1923 ). In the last years of his life, Yesenin leaned towards an alliance with the Soviet authorities, problematized by longing for the “outgoing Russia”. In the works of this period, there is a noticeable tendency to reproduce and rethink the key images of A.S. Pushkin. In Yesenin's late lyrics, the collection Persian Motives (1925) stands out. The final poem for the writer was the poem "The Black Man", which played on Pushkin's themes ( 1925 ) is an uncompromising author's confession, the poet's confession that he wore precisely calculated masks all his life. This state of mental discord, coupled with persecution mania, pushed Yesenin to commit suicide (none of the versions about his murder is based on serious factual grounds).
Yesenin's work occupies an important place in Russian literature. The poet wrote many wonderful poems imbued with love for the motherland and admiration for the beauties of nature. The theme of the people also figures prominently in his poems. The author's views evolved with age: if at first he wrote mainly about simple peasant life, then in a more late time urban themes, oriental motifs, philosophical reflections also began to sound in his poetry.
Youth
The years of Yesenin's life - 1895-1925 - it was a transitional time in national history which is reflected in the culture. The turn of the century was marked by an active creative search among the intelligentsia, in the center of which was the poet. He was born into a simple peasant family in the Ryazan province. The boy studied at the zemstvo school, then at the local school.
After graduating in 1912, he moved to Moscow, where he worked in a printing house. In 1913 he entered the university in the historical and philosophical department. His creative career began the following year with the publication of his first poems in a magazine. In 1915 he moved to Petrograd, where he made acquaintances with contemporary poets.
Carier start
The years of Yesenin's life came at a time of changes in literature. Many authors were looking for new ways to express their thoughts in poetry and prose. The poet belonged to Imagism, whose representatives emphasized the depiction of artistic images. The plot and ideological fullness receded into the background. Yesenin actively developed the ideas of this trend in his early works.
Life in the 1920s
In the first half of the 1920s, several collections of his poems were published, which reflected the features of his writing style: a predominant interest in peasant themes and a description of Russian nature.
But already in 1924 he broke with the Imagists because of disagreements with A. Mariengof. The poet traveled a lot around the country. He visited the Caucasus, Azerbaijan and Leningrad. He visited his native village of Konstantinovo more than once. His impressions are reflected in his new works.
Personal life
S. Yesenin, whose biography is the subject of this review, was married three times. His first wife was Z. Reich, a famous actress, who later married the famous theater director V. Meyerhold. In marriage, they had two children. But already in 1921 (four years after the marriage), the couple broke up.
The following year, the poet married a second time. This time, the famous American ballerina A. Duncan became his wife (she developed a new type of free dance, in which she imitated ancient Greek plastique). Yesenin traveled with her in Europe and the USA. The biography of the poet of this period was full of new events. He has visited several countries. But the second marriage was even shorter than the first: the couple broke up in 1923. For the third time, the poet married in 1925 the granddaughter of L. Tolstoy - Sophia. But this marriage also failed. The poet went to Leningrad, where he died in December of the same year.
Early poems
Yesenin's work began in 1914. His first poems were devoted to the description of the village, village, peasant life and nature. By this time, his famous works such as “Good morning!”, “Beloved Land” and many others belong to this time. Their peculiarity is that in them the author draws pictures of the peaceful life of the rural population, admires the beauties of the rural landscape.
Features of Imagism are especially clearly seen in his early lyrics. The poet combines images of nature and rural life. Creativity Yesenin early period imbued with a subtle lyrical feeling of admiring rural paintings. love lyrics also occupies an important place in his works of the period under review ("Tanyusha was good"). The author skillfully imitates the folklore language and folk songs.
Poems 1917-1920s
The works of the poet of this period are distinguished by the fact that a motive of sadness and longing appeared in them. If in the first poems the poet painted joyful colorful pictures of nature, then in a later period he not only admires, but also reflects on the plight of the Russian people, and also talks about the vicissitudes of his own fate (“I left my dear home”).
Yesenin's work is becoming more diverse. He increasingly writes poems imbued with philosophical reflections on life ("Here it is, stupid happiness"). However, during this period, the poet's poems still retain their joyful mood. Since the author developed the principles of Imagism, the images of nature play a decisive role in his poems (“Golden foliage spun”).
love lyrics
This theme occupies one of the main places in his work. Yesenin wrote about love in the context of describing nature. For example, in the famous “Persian Motifs”, the theme of the Motherland is in the center of the author’s attention, despite the fact that the plot of the works and their heroines are dedicated to the East.
One of the best poems of the cycle is “Shagane you are mine, Shagane”. It is shaped like a song. And although his action takes place in Iran, and the poet refers to an oriental woman, nevertheless, he always remembers Russia and compares the nature of Shiraz with the Ryazan expanses.
love poem
Yesenin wrote a lot of works about love. Special mention should be made of his major poetic works on this topic. One of the most famous is called Anna Snegina.
This poem is interesting in that it does not tell about the birth of love, but about the memories associated with it. The poet meets a woman whom he once loved very much, and this meeting makes him relive the best feelings of his youth. Besides, this work reveals those profound changes in the countryside that took place in the second decade of the 20th century. Thus, the author says goodbye not only to his first love, but also to his youth and former life.
About nature
Many of Yesenin's poems are devoted to descriptions of pictures of his native nature. In them, the poet admires the beauties of the rural landscape. Such, for example, is his famous poem "Birch". Simple in composition, beautiful in language, it is distinguished by a special lyrical penetration. The works of the author of the early period are characterized by an abundance of unusual metaphors, original comparisons, which give his language expressiveness and sonority. So, Yesenin's poems about various natural phenomena(winter blizzards, rain, snowfall, winds), thanks to its unusual lexical turns, they are imbued with a particularly warm feeling for their native village.
An early work of the poet “It's already evening. Dew…” paints a picture of a rural landscape. The author not only lovingly describes the beauty of the surrounding world, but also conveys to readers the peace that he himself feels in the evening silence.
Poems about animals
Yesenin's lyrics are very diverse. The author touched upon a variety of topics in his work, but all his works are characterized by one feature: love for the Motherland and Russian nature. Against the background of this basic idea, his works about animals turned out to be especially touching.
One of the most famous is the verse "Give me a paw for luck, Jim." This work is dedicated to the dog of the famous actor V. Kachalov. In it, the author described the secular salon of the artist and, as it were, contrasted him with the image of a dog, which in his mind symbolizes natural nature. Yesenin's lyrics about animals, as a rule, have a specific addressee. For example, the work "Oh, how many cats in the world" is dedicated to the author's sister Alexandra. This is one of the most touching and sad works of the poet, in which he recalls his childhood.
About Russia
The homeland in Yesenin's work occupies the main place. The idea of love for the country, its nature, people, village, village runs like a red thread through all his works. One of the most important works in his work on this topic is "O Rus, flap your wings." In it, the poet not only describes the nature of the country, but also writes about the difficult historical path that it has passed throughout its existence. The author believes in a bright future for the country, he hopes for a better fate and says that the Russian people will cope with any trials.
The way the Motherland is represented in Yesenin's work is perhaps the most important part school lesson for the study of the author's poetry. Another famous verse on this topic is the work of "Rus". In it, the poet revives nature and emphasizes its mystery and mystery, in which, in his opinion, lies all its charm.
"Moscow tavern"
So the poet called the cycle of his poems dedicated to his city life. In them, the theme of the city occupies a central place, but at the same time, the poet always recalls the village, which is sharply opposed to stormy Moscow. The theme of the bully is the link of all the poems. One of them is "I will not deceive myself." In it, the poet writes about his longing and boredom due to the fact that he was known as a bully. This work is the poet's recognition that it is awkward and uncomfortable among people and that he finds it faster and easier. mutual language with yard dogs. The life and work of Yesenin were very closely connected with his travels and trips to different cities of Russia. The cycle under consideration is a description of a whole period in his biography.
About life
One of the most famous poems of the collection in question is "I do not regret, I do not call, I do not cry." In it, the poet sums up his life and creative career. Despite his young age, the author, as it were, says goodbye to nature, the Motherland. He writes about his past with light, almost joyful sadness. Such touching images as an apple tree, a pink horse, maples, again bring the poet and the reader back to the familiar, early motifs of the poet's lyrics.
The verse "My mysterious world, my ancient world" is dedicated to the description of the urban landscape. In it, the poet describes the difficult conditions of life in the city. The main image that is presented in the poem is the image of the beast. The poet welcomes him as an old acquaintance, addressing him as a friend. At the same time, the author again recalls his life and writes about his imminent death.
Address to mother
In 1924, after a long absence, the poet returned to his native village. Inspired by familiar landscapes, he wrote a new poem, which became a landmark in his work - "Letter to Mother". Yesenin wrote this verse in a very simple, accessible language, which is close to colloquial. He greets his mother, sincerely wishes her well, happiness.
The second part of the poem is devoted to describing his hard life. He writes about his turbulent life in the city and touchingly confesses his love for her and his native village. This work is also imbued with bitterness and longing. The poem “Letter to Mother” is dedicated to a peculiar summing up of his work. Yesenin in it not only addresses her, but also writes about his longing, which even his fame cannot console.
Meaning
The poet's work had a noticeable influence on Russian poetry in the first half of the 20th century. It should be noted that many authors of the period under consideration wrote on peasant and folk topics, but only Serey Alexandrovich achieved such a great influence in Russian literature. He was one of the first to raise and develop the theme of rural and rural life in his poetry. After him, Soviet poets began to write about the village and the life of the common people. The most striking example is the poets of the sixties.
An indicator of the popularity of his works is the fact that many of his poems have been translated into foreign languages, some of them have been set to music, sounded in Soviet films. In addition to working on poems, the author paid much attention to the theoretical development of the principles of versification.
In the later period of his work, he attached great importance to imagery and symbolism, but began to fill the works with philosophical content. Sergei Yesenin, whose life facts show the originality of his personality, is a prominent representative of Imagism.
Yesenin recalled with a smile about his childhood in the Ryazan province, saying that it was exactly the same as that of all rural children. Fights in the dust, eternal scratches and a broken nose, raids on other people's gardens and a furious dislike for Saturdays - on this "bath" day, the reins of power passed to the grandmother, who struggled to give her beloved grandson a civilized look, wash, comb and change into clean clothes. .
Serezha's parents did not get along too well - the marriage of convenience was on the verge of collapse for many years, the mother left her husband and went "to the people", to work, leaving her two-year-old son to his grandfather and grandmother. The male half of this rather well-to-do (by peasant standards) family was distinguished by a temperamental violent and hooligan - the grandfather supported the grandson's desire to gain authority among his peers with his fists. The upbringing that the boy received could be called Spartan. Three unmarried uncles enthusiastically began to sculpt a "real man" from a tiny nephew. He was taught to swim by being thrown from a boat into a lake at the very depths, and given plenty of water to drink before being pulled back. At the age of three, the boy was put on a horse without a saddle and the stallion was put into a gallop, leaving the frightened boy to death with "God's mercy." Is it any wonder that in adolescence, Sergei Yesenin was known in his native village as the main mischief-maker, the ringleader of all kinds of dashing tricks? Grandmother "pulled" her grandson in the other direction. She was very religious, believed in the benefits of education, and in her dreams saw Seryozha as a village teacher. Thanks to her efforts, he knew how to read from the age of five, tried to compose ditties, and then graduated with honors from a four-year zemstvo school in his native Konstantinovsky. However, it took him five years - the boy was transferred to the last class only on the second attempt "because of disgusting behavior."
After receiving his primary education, Yesenin easily entered a special parochial school for teachers. However, own youthful sword 
you pictured him a much more attractive future in the field of literature. Yesenin composed poems more and more professionally, many of them later gained fame, and today are included in textbook collections. “Winter sings - calls out ...” and “Bird cherry snows ...” he wrote at the age of fifteen.
Not distinguished by excessive modesty, the young man considered himself a ready-made genius and was extremely indignant at the coldness of the publishers who refused to publish him. To deal with such injustice, he personally went to conquer Big world. Yesenin moves to Moscow, completely despising the career of a teacher, works as a clerk in a butcher shop, actively sends out his works famous poets, attaches them to all kinds of competitions.
Such a cavalry onslaught bears fruit - the young talent is noticed, they begin to publish and praise it. It seemed that dreams come true!
Brilliant start - and a beautiful flight ... to nowhere
Compared to many other writers, whose path to the heights was strewn with thorns, Yesenin's fate was truly caressed. Or so it seems at first glance? The year is 1915, his poems are on the pages of the most popular metropolitan publications, and the poet himself reads his works to the Empress and Grand Duchesses in the infirmary for soldiers who were injured on the fronts of the First World War.
At the same time, he enthusiastically takes part in the work of all kinds of “near-revolutionary” circles, makes friends with “unreliable” poets and members of the RSDLP (b), for which he himself falls into the “black lists” of the police. Yesenin welcomes the coming revolution, seeing in it the possibility of renewal, the revival of spirituality. It can be easily assumed that such idealism later became the cause of great disappointment - the pastoral picture of patriarchal Russia did not much correspond to the horror that was happening in reality after 1917. 
Objectively, everything turned out just fine. Yesenin is in good relations with the "singer of the revolution" Alexander Blok, Gorky speaks well of him, Dzerzhinsky personally inquires about his well-being. In addition, the poet's family was reunited (at least formally), two younger sisters are growing up with him, whom he loves reverently and fiercely. In general, contemporaries noted that the easiest way to get hold of Sergei Yesenin among his enemies was to say harshness in relation to his relatives - he was endlessly devoted to them.
But what was really going on in his soul at that time? It is said that the first thing a revolution devours is its children. Yesenin was tormented by the fact that the expectations and the truth of life, which he observed every day, did not want to coincide. Everything was different, unsteady, strange and scary. And now traces of sad reflections about “where the fate of events takes us” appear in his poems.
Trying to escape into the metaphorical world of semi-fairytale images, the poet takes part in the creation of a new literary trend - Imagism, somewhat outrageous, sometimes preaching hooliganism and anarchism. However, shortly before his death, Yesenin will be disappointed in this brainchild of his, but for now he is actively traveling around the country, visiting Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan, speaking to a very different audience. Looking, looking, looking... What? Either peace of mind, or the truth that is not given to him in any way.
The dearly beloved family also does not please the poet too much. By their own woeful admission, relatives perceive him solely as a source of additional funds, a potential "golden bag", and do not understand why he does not pay attention to improving his well-being. The peasant patriarchal dream of prosperity no longer touches, but irritates Yesenin.
All they want is money!” he is outraged.
He drinks a lot and is increasingly involved in various scandals, many of which involve women. Personal life is not going well, stormy novels end as quickly as they begin. By 1925, behind Yesenin's back, there were already three official marriage, which turned out to be very short. The first lasted the longest, with Zinaida Reich, who gave birth to the poet's daughter and son. Then there was a bright and incredibly passionate relationship with the American dancer Isadora Duncan - the poet lived with her for a little over a year. The last alliance was concluded with Sophia Tolstaya, but this marriage broke up almost immediately.
It is interesting that many women loved Yesenin earnestly and devotedly, but even this did not bring him peace, did not allow him to escape from the "inner demons". He drank more and more, was repeatedly detained by the police for hooliganism, sometimes he was ashamed of his antics, sometimes he flaunted them. There were streaks of lack of money, relations with friends deteriorated. It seemed that Sergey was running, running after some elusive dream - and could not catch up with it in any way ...
End of the Road - Tragedy at Angleterre
What caused the end? The debate about this has not stopped for a long time. One side, civil position Yesenin in the last years of his life was very different from the optimistic perception of social change that helped him become so popular in the "revolutionary" environment. Increasingly, criticism of the "powerful of this world" broke through in his speeches, which was usually attributed to alcoholic delirium or nervous breakdown. The poet even spent some time in a psychiatric hospital, but he did not get rid of his "freethinking".
The pendulum of his life was swinging stronger and stronger. He drank terribly, almost without leaving a feverish state. In parallel, Yesenin "lit up" in connection with a criminal case initiated under the "execution" article about anti-Semitism. Friends began to fear suicidal moods, which increasingly took possession of the poet - he repeatedly made attempts to "leave" and even more often spoke about them in his works, bitter, hopeless, reminiscent of the confession of a hopelessly deceived person.
The last poem "Goodbye, my friend, goodbye" was written in blood - Yesenin handed it to Wolf Erlich, one of the few true friends, just a few hours before his death. He wrote it in the Angleterre Hotel in Leningrad, and on the same night committed suicide by hanging himself on a suitcase belt, throwing it over a heating pipe. There are versions that the suicide was just a staged cover for the brutal reprisal against the poet. Unfortunately, it is impossible to know for sure - whatever the truth, the thirty-year-old poet took it with him.
Brief biography of Sergei Yesenin
“It’s so easy to leave this life,
Burn mindlessly and painlessly.
But not given to the Russian poet
Such a bright death to die.
Just lead lead to the winged soul
Heaven will open the frontiers,
Or hoarse horror with a shaggy paw
From the heart, like from a sponge, life will be squeezed out.
Anna Akhmatova's poem "In Memory of Sergei Yesenin"
Biography
The biography of Sergei Yesenin is a controversial life story of the great Russian poet. It is difficult to find another person who would write about Russia with such love and at the same time pain. The difficult nature of the poet, his rebelliousness, restlessness, propensity for outrageousness and conflicts created considerable difficulties in Yesenin's life. But even after his tragic departure, the “street rake”, “mischievous reveler” and “scandalist” Yesenin, as he called himself, could forever remain in the hearts of those who once heard his poetry and fell in love with it.
Sergei Yesenin was born in the Ryazan region in a simple peasant family. As a child, he loved to read, having special feelings for Russian folklore, fairy tales, epics, ditties and Russian poetry. Pushkin, Lermontov, Koltsov were Esenin's favorite writers. As a young man, he moved to Moscow, where he worked in a printing house, and was soon accepted into the literary and musical circles of the capital and began to publish his poems. First Moscow, and then Petrograd met Yesenin with open arms, he was considered "the messenger of the Russian village." Yesenin's personality also played a big role - he read his poems with such ardor, with such expression and sincerity that everything - from ordinary people to eminent writers - they fell in love with a golden-haired peasant poet.
Yesenin met the coming of power of workers and peasants with enthusiasm. But over time, delight was replaced by disappointment, fear, indignation. Because of his directness, the poet often became the object of observation by the authorities, especially during the relationship of Sergei Yesenin with Isadora Duncan, an American dancer. When, finally, Yesenin openly expressed his sharp condemnation of the actions of the Soviet authorities in the poem "Country of Scoundrels", a real persecution of the poet began. The poet, already quick-tempered and addicted to alcohol, was often provoked. Each scandalous episode of his biography was described in the newspapers. Yesenin was forced to hide - he lived in the Caucasus, in Leningrad, in Konstantinovo, where he was born. Yesenin's last wife, Sofya Tolstaya, in an attempt to save her husband from alcohol addiction and persecution hospitalized him in a neurological clinic. Which Yesenin secretly left, allegedly in an attempt to escape from the authorities, and went to Leningrad, where he stayed at the Angleterre Hotel. Five days later, his body was found in the room of the Angleterre. The cause of Yesenin's death was suicide - the poet committed suicide by hanging himself on a pipe. His last words were a poem written in blood instead of ink:
"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 and 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.
Yesenin's funeral took place on the last day of 1925 - December 31. Not a single Russian poet was seen off with such honors and scope - about two hundred thousand people came to Yesenin's funeral. Yesenin's death was a huge loss and shock for Russia.
life line
October 3, 1895 Date of birth of Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin.
1904 Admission to the zemstvo school in Konstantinovo.
1909 Graduation from college, admission to the church teacher's school.
1912 Finishing school with a diploma of a literacy teacher, moving to Moscow.
1913 Marriage with Anna Izryadnova.
1914 The birth of the son of Sergei Yesenin, Yuri.
1915 Acquaintance with Alexander Blok, admission to the service in the hospital train.
1916 Release of the first collection of poems "Radunitsa".
1917 Marriage with Zinaida Reich.
1918 Birth of daughter Tatyana.
1920 Birth of son Constantine.
1921 Divorce from Zinaida Reich, acquaintance with Isadora Duncan, release of the collections "Treryadnitsa", "Confessions of a Hooligan".
May 2, 1922 Marriage to Isadora Duncan.
1923 Release of the collection "Poems of a Brawler".
1924 Divorce from Isadora Duncan, release of the poem "Pugachev", collection "Moscow Tavern", birth illegitimate son from the translator and poetess Nadezhda Volpin.
September 18, 1925 Marriage with Sophia Tolstoy.
December 28, 1925 Date of Yesenin's death.
December 31, 1925 Yesenin's funeral.
Memorable places
1. The village of Konstantinovo, where Yesenin was born and where the Yesenin Museum-Reserve is located today.
2. Yesenin Museum (former church teacher's school, which Yesenin graduated from) in Spas-Klepiki.
3. Tsarskoye Selo, where Yesenin's regiment was quartered and where the poet spoke to Empress Alexandra.
4. Yesenin and Duncan's house in Moscow, where the couple lived and where Isadora's dance school was located.
5. Moscow State Museum of S. A. Yesenin.
6. Yesenin's house in Mardakan (now a memorial house-museum on the territory of the arboretum), where the poet lived in 1924-1925.
7. House-Museum of Sergei Yesenin in Tashkent, where he stayed in 1921.
8. Monument to Yesenin in Moscow on Yeseninsky Boulevard.
9. Monument to Yesenin in Moscow on Tverskoy Boulevard.
10. Angleterre Hotel, where Yesenin's body was found.
11. Vagankovsky cemetery, where Yesenin is buried.
Episodes of life
Despite the fact that the last years of his life Yesenin abused alcohol, he did not write poetry while drunk. The poet's memoirists also talk about this. Once Yesenin confessed to his friend: “The desperate fame of a drunkard and a bully follows me, but these are just words, and not such a terrible reality.”
Dancer Duncan fell in love with Yesenin almost at first sight. He, too, was very interested in her, despite the tangible difference in age. Isadora dreamed of glorifying her Russian husband and took him with her on a tour - through Europe and America. Yesenin explained his scandalous behavior during the trip in his usual manner: “Yes, I made a row. I needed them to know me, so they would remember me. What, I'm going to read poetry to them? Poems for Americans? I would only become ridiculous in their eyes. But to drag the tablecloth with all the dishes from the table, to whistle in the theater, to violate the traffic order - this is clear to them. If I do this, I am a millionaire. I mean, I can. So respect is ready, and glory and honor! Oh, they remember me better than Duncan!” In fact, Yesenin quickly realized that abroad he was only "Duncan's husband" for everyone, broke off relations with the dancer and returned home.
Assumptions that the death of Sergei Yesenin was violent appeared many years after the death of the poet. The author of the version of the murder and its popularization was the Moscow investigator Eduard Khlystalov - his point of view on what happened to the poet is shown in the serial film Yesenin. Other researchers found it unconvincing.
Covenant
"In thunderstorms, in storms, in the coldness of life,
With heavy losses and when you are sad,
To seem smiling and simple -
The highest art in the world."
A plot from the cycle "Historical Chronicles" dedicated to Sergei Yesenin
condolences
“Let's not blame him alone. All of us - his contemporaries - are more or less to blame. This was a precious person. I should have fought harder for him. We should have helped him more brotherly.”
Anatoly Lunacharsky, revolutionary, statesman
“The end of Yesenin upset, upset usually, humanly. But immediately this end seemed completely natural and logical. I found out about this at night, grief, it must have remained grief, it must have dissipated by morning, but in the morning the newspapers brought dying lines: “In this life, dying is not new, but living, of course, is not newer” . After these lines, Yesenin's death became a literary fact.
Vladimir Mayakovsky, poet
"He lived terribly and died terribly."
Anna Akhmatova, poetess