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• Sergei Yesenin was born on September 21 (October 4), 1895 in the village of Konstantinovo, Ryazan province, into the family of peasant Alexander Yesenin.
• Alexander Nikitich Yesenin (1873-1931) and Tatyana Fedorovna Yesenina (Titova) (1865-1955).

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House-Museum of Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin

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Yesenin about his childhood:

• “From the age of two, I was given to be raised by a rather wealthy maternal grandfather, who had three adult unmarried sons, with whom I spent almost my entire childhood. My uncles were mischievous and desperate guys. At the age of three and a half, they put me on a horse without a saddle and "They immediately put me into a gallop. Then they taught me to swim. Uncle Sasha took me into a boat, drove away from the shore, took off my underwear and threw me into the water like a puppy."

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Zemsky Primary School

• In 1904, Yesenin was sent to study at the Konstantinovsky Zemstvo School, and then to a church-teacher’s school in the town of Spas-Klepiki (1909-12), from which he graduated as a “teacher of a literacy school.”

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Moscow

• In the summer of 1912, Yesenin moved to Moscow and for some time served in a butcher shop, where his father worked as a clerk.
• After a conflict with his father, he left the shop and worked in a book publishing house, then in the printing house of I. D. Sytin.

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1913

• Yesenin joined the revolutionary-minded workers and found himself under police surveillance. At the same time, Yesenin studied at the historical and philosophical department of Shanyavsky University (1913-15).

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Poet's debut

• Having composed poetry since childhood (mainly in imitation of A.V. Koltsov, I.S. Nikitin, S.D. Drozhzhin), Yesenin found like-minded people in the “Surikov Literary and Musical Circle,” of which he became a member in 1912.
• Begins to be published in 1914 in Moscow children's magazines (the first poem "Birch").

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1915

• Yesenin comes to Petrograd, where he meets A. A. Blok, S. M. Gorodetsky, A. M. Remizov, N. S. Gumilev, and becomes close to N. A. Klyuev, who had a significant influence on him. Their joint performances with poems and ditties, stylized in a “peasant”, “folk” manner (Yesenin appeared to the public as a golden-haired young man in an embroidered shirt and morocco boots), were a great success.

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Sergei Yesenin with N. A. Klyuev. Autumn 1916

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Military service

• 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 Tsarskoye 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.

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Group photo of the train staff and crew June 7, 1916

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"Radunitsa"

• Yesenin's first collection of poems, "Radunitsa" (1916), was enthusiastically welcomed by critics, who discovered a fresh spirit in it, noting the author's youthful spontaneity and natural taste.

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Revolution

• 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) imbued with a joyful anticipation of the "transformation" of life.

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Imagism

• Searches in the field of imagery bring Yesenin together with 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 near the Nikitsky Gate in Moscow.

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"Moscow Tavern"

• In the early 1920s. in Yesenin’s poems there appear motifs of “a life torn apart by a storm” (in 1920, a marriage that lasted about three years with Z. N. Reich broke up), 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

• An event in Yesenin’s life was a meeting with the American dancer Isadora Duncan (autumn 1921), who six months later became his wife.

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Yesenin and Isadora, 1922

• A joint trip to Europe (Germany, Belgium, France, Italy) and America (May 1922 August 1923),

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1923-1925

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.”

The best works belong to this period:

• "The golden grove dissuaded..."
• "Letter to Mother"
• "Now we are leaving little by little...",
• cycle "Persian motives",
• poem "Anna Snegina" and others.

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Tragic ending

• One of his last works was the poem “Country of Scoundrels,” in which he denounced the Soviet regime. After this, persecution began against him in the newspapers.
• 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.

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Biography of Yesenin Sergei Alexandrovich (1895-1925)

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Parents
Sergei Yesenin's father, Alexander Nikitich Yesenin, was the eldest child in the family. In 1893, eighteen-year-old Alexander Nikitich Yesenin married his fellow villager Tatyana Fedorovna Titova, who was sixteen and a half years old. After the wedding, Alexander returned to Moscow, and his wife remained in the house of her mother-in-law, who from the first days disliked her daughter-in-law. When Sergei was born in 1895, Tatyana Fedorovna’s first surviving child, Alexander Nikitich was not in the village. As before his marriage, Alexander Nikitich sent his salary to his mother. A quarrel broke out between the young couple - Sergei's mother and father - and they lived separately for several years: Alexander Nikitich in Moscow, Tatyana Fedorovna in Ryazan.

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Grandfather
When Sergei was three years old, his mother left the Yesenins. Sergei was taken to live by his second grandfather, Fyodor Andreevich Titov, who had quarreled with the Yesenin family back when his daughter was a bride. For five years, Sergei’s parents lived separately, and the boy lived in the house of his grandfather, Fyodor Andreevich, and grandmother, Natalya Evteevna. At the insistence of his grandfather, Sergei began reading at the age of five, learning to read and write from church books. He began writing poetry at the age of 8. Among his peers, Sergei, who had the nickname Seryoga the Monk, was a recognized horse breeder, a fighter and a tireless inventor of various boyish games.

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Zemstvo School
In 1904, at the age of nine, Sergei went to study at the Zemstvo four-year Konstantinovsky School. Few had the opportunity to study and there were no more than 10-12 students in each class. According to the recollections of Sergei’s classmates and his teachers, “he studied easily, as if jokingly, was gifted with a clear mind, had an excellent memory and was rightfully considered a capable student; Sergei was an avid book lover and what distinguished him from his peers was what was in his hands or under his shirt There was almost always some kind of book." In 1909, Sergei Yesenin graduated from school with a certificate of merit: out of eleven students, only four passed the “tests at the end of the course” with a “five”, among them was Sergei.

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Church and parish teacher's school
In the fall of 1909, Sergei Yesenin’s parents sent him to study at the Spas-Klepikovskaya second-grade church and teachers’ school, located not far from Konstantinov. After spending several days in a boarding school, Sergei, feeling homesick, made an “escape” and returned to his native village on foot, but was taken back. The school, which was a closed educational institution, was run by church authorities and trained teachers of parochial literacy schools. In 1912, Sergei Yesenin graduated from teacher's school, receiving the "title of literacy school teacher." Of the works created by Sergei Yesenin in 1910-1912, more than 60 are currently known, including the first poem - “The Tale of Evpatiy Kolovrat...”.

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Anna Romanovna Izryadova
At Sytin's printing house, Yesenin met Anna Romanovna Izryadnova, who had worked in the proofreading department since 1909, and in 1914 entered into a civil marriage. At the end of December 1914, Yesenin had a son, Yuri. (1920).

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First conflicts with the authorities
In the spring of 1913, in connection with Yesenin’s participation in the revolutionary movement of the workers of Sytin’s printing house, the Moscow security department opened a case. In the secret police, Yesenin, who was under surveillance, had the nickname “Nabor”. He distributed illegal literature, participated in strikes and protest demonstrations held in factories and factories at the call of the Moscow Committee of the RSDLP. In the fall of 1913, a search was carried out at his apartment.

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Life in Petrograd
There was no money (“I had to eat on 2-3 kopecks.”), I didn’t have my own place to live, and Yesenin had to spend the night wherever he had to. He often lived with Murashev, whom he later called “the first of my first friends in the city of St. Petersburg.” Already in September 1915, the owner of the Prometheus book publishing house N.N. Mikhailov sent a letter to Yesenin with a proposal to publish a collection of his works, and on October 25, 1915, Sergei Yesenin’s first performance took place at the “evening of folk poetry” held by the literary and artistic group “Krasa” in the hall of the Tenishevsky School.

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Zinaida Nikolaevna Reich - July 30, 1917
In the spring of 1917, in the editorial office of one of the newspapers, he met the secretary-typist Zinaida Nikolaevna Reich, his same age. In the history of the Soviet theater she is mentioned as an actress, but at the time they met, such an actress did not exist - Reich played her first role only at the age of 30. Three months after they met, the wedding took place - while passing through, in Vologda. Sergei did not live with her permanently, although she gave birth to two children from him - Tatyana (1918) and Konstantin

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Isadora Duncan
In 1921, Sergei Yesenin married the American dancer Isadora Duncan (1878-1927), who took the surname Duncan-Yesenin. Isadora Duncan, one of the founders of modern dance, was welcomed to packed theaters throughout Europe. In 1920, Duncan was invited to Soviet Russia to organize her own ballet school. The marriage to Yesenin was soon followed by a divorce, but on May 2, 1922, in the registry office of the Khamovnichesky district of Moscow, the re-marriage of Sergei Yesenin and the American dancer Isadora Duncan, who took the name Yesenin, took place. In the fall of 1922 the couple went abroad. Having visited many European countries, “touring all of Europe except Spain,” Yesenin went to America, where he stayed for four months until February 1923. He returned to Moscow on August 3, 1923.
S. Yesenin and A. Duncan. Berlin. 1922

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Galina Benislavskaya
On November 4, 1920, at the literary evening “The Trial of the Imagists,” Yesenin met Galina Benislavskaya. Their relationship, with varying success, lasted until the spring of 1925. Returning from Konstantinov, Yesenin finally broke up with her. It was a tragedy for her. Insulted and humiliated, Galina wrote in her memoirs: “Because of the awkwardness and brokenness of my relationship with S.A., I more than once wanted to leave him as a woman, I wanted to be only a friend. But I realized that I could not leave S.A. , this thread cannot be broken..." Shortly before his trip to Leningrad in November, before going to the hospital, Yesenin called Benislavskaya: "Come say goodbye." He said that Sofya Andreevna Tolstaya would come too. Galina replied: “I don’t like such wires.” Galina Benislavskaya shot herself at Yesenin’s grave. She left two notes on his grave. One is a simple postcard: “December 3, 1926. She committed suicide here, although I know that after this even more dogs will be blamed on Yesenin... But he and I don’t care. Everything that is most dear to me is in this grave.. "

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Sofya Andreevna Tolstaya
March 5, 1925 - acquaintance with Leo Tolstoy's granddaughter Sofia Andreevna Tolstoy. She was 5 years younger than Yesenin, and the blood of the world’s greatest writer flowed in her veins. Sofya Andreevna was in charge of the library of the Writers' Union. On October 18, 1925, the marriage with S.A. Tolstoy was registered. Sofya Tolstaya is another of Yesenin’s unfulfilled hopes of starting a family. Coming from an aristocratic family, according to the recollections of Yesenin’s friends, she was very arrogant and proud, she demanded adherence to etiquette and unquestioning obedience. These qualities of hers were in no way combined with Sergei’s simplicity, generosity, cheerfulness, and mischievous character. They soon separated. In November 1925 he went to a Moscow hospital.

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Suicide
On December 24, 1925, Sergei Yesenin left for Leningrad, where he planned to stay until the summer, and then go to Italy to see M. Gorky. But on the night of December 28, at the International Hotel (Angleterre), Yesenin, according to the official version, committed suicide: on the morning of December 28, he was found hanged in his hotel room. The day before, he wrote the poem “Goodbye, my friend, goodbye...” and gave it to his Leningrad friend, the poet Wolf Erlich. “By the end of 1925, Yesenin’s decision to “leave” became manic. He lay down under the wheels of a country train, tried to throw himself out of a window, cut a vein with a piece of glass, and stab himself with a kitchen knife. In the last months of his tragic existence, Yesenin was a man for no more than one hour at a time day. From the first, morning, glass his consciousness was already darkening. And after the first, as an iron rule, came the second, third, fourth, fifth... From time to time Yesenin was admitted to the hospital, where the most famous doctors treated him with the latest methods "They helped as little as the oldest methods with which they also tried to treat him." (Memoirs of Anatoly Mariengof) Moscow said goodbye to Yesenin in the House of Press. Sergei Yesenin was buried at the Vagankovskoye cemetery.

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Childhood Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin was born on September 21 (October 3, BC) in the village of Konstantinov, Ryazan province, into a peasant family. At the age of three, he was given to be raised by his mother’s parents, that is, the Titovs, since the family in which he was born and raised was not, contrary to the poet’s own statement, so simple. The Yesenins were more landless than their fellow villagers. Already the poet’s grandfather, Nikita Osipovich, on that piece of land that he acquired after his marriage (56 sq. arshins!), could not build anything except a hut and a yard for cattle, “he did not manage” to buy a vegetable garden. His son Alexander found himself in an even more difficult situation.

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Even in their best pre-war years, the Yesenin family actually lived not on village money, but on city trade money. The butcher shop of merchant Krylov, where Sergei’s father, Alexander Nikitich, worked as a clerk, closed with the advent of Soviet power. The cow and the vegetable garden, there was no horse, served only as a help. There was not even a garden, although the neighbors had gardens that were small but full of fruits. Peasant childhood without your own apples and even without the smell of limp dill is a trauma for life!

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The poet's mother Tatyana Fedorovna, a strong and more than down-to-earth woman, was greatly irritated by the restlessness of her good-for-nothing husband, all the more irritated by the fact that she grew up in a family with a different way of life: her brothers were smart, skillful men, and her father was also a distinguished horseman, which has the best horses in the village and excellent harness. The discord between the parents could not but affect the well-being of the younger Yesenins, especially Sergei. Outwardly, he looked like his father, and this similarity, with the difference in aspirations, created the ground for constant “feuds.” With his mother, and precisely because of the difference in natures and characters, it was easier for Yesenin. However, for all his inadequacy, it was the father who chose the fate of the children, and it was the father who got along.

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The Titovs lived in another part of the village of Konstantinova - in Matov. Grandfather Fyodor was known throughout the area as a cheerful, intelligent and wayward man. Titov’s sons lived with their own families, and three remained in the house - grandfather, grandmother and grandson Sergei. The old people were religious and adhered to old religious rituals. They were also experts in folk songs and religious folklore. Growing up in an Old Believer, religious family, Sergei, however, was not imbued with faith in God and did not have much interest in church services. From an early age, Yesenin showed a certain independence in his feelings, motives, and attitude towards others, not unconsciously succumbing to external influences, but somehow understanding them in his own way. In addition, the family was not the only school of his upbringing. The village street, friendship with boys, and participation in peasant work left a big mark on his memory. The most picturesque pictures of nature were deeply imprinted for the rest of my life.

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Studying From the age of five, Sergei learned to read, and this filled his boyhood life with new content.

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Sergei was one of the children who studied with special care and eagerness. The Vlasov spouses taught at the Konstantinovsky School. Lidia Ivanovna says: “The class in which Seryozha studied was taught by my husband (Ivan Matveevich). But he was often absent on school business, and I stayed for him. When he brought new books, Seryozha always came to us - he had already re-read everything at school. Often after lessons, Seryozha stayed and read poetry aloud to his classmates. At school there were books by Pushkin, Lermontov, Nekrasov, Koltsov, Nikitin.” In May 1909, Yesenin graduated from college with a certificate of commendation “for very good success and excellent behavior.” He received excellent marks in all subjects in his final exams.

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In August 1909, it was decided to send Sergei to the Spas-Klepikovsky church and teachers' school. She trained teachers for rural primary schools and parochial schools. Yesenin easily passed the entrance exams and settled in a boarding school at the school. The atmosphere of a closed educational institution with a supervised existence and official order, with the dominance of clergy and church wisdom, weighed heavily on the lively, inquisitive young man. The spiritual demands were already much broader than what the Spas-Klepikovskaya school provided. One day he even ran away from school, going straight, along bumpy snow-covered country roads, home to Konstantinovo, but was taken back by his mother. Sergei continued to study, dreaming, as he later admitted in a letter to his friend, Grisha Panfilov, “to get out of this hell as soon as possible.”

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Among the school's teachers were clergy, officials, and executive servants, but there were also people with broad interests who found a way to the hearts of their students. This was the teacher of literature, the old teacher Evgeny Mikhailovich Khitrov, to whom Yesenin showed his poems from the second year of study. The teacher was strict in his assessments: students of all classes brought him poems in heaps, but very rarely did a spark of talent appear in them. At first, he reacted with restraint towards Sergei’s manuscripts, and he knew him very little, since classes in literature and stylistics fell on the third year of the school program. It was in the third grade that Yesenin revealed himself to the teacher as an inquisitive reader and lover of poetry. After many imitative, unremarkable poems on the themes of love and nature, something original and fresh flashed in Yesenin’s manuscripts. It was a small sketch of “Stars”. The teacher approved him. Khitrov advised him to take up literature seriously after graduating from school, to get close to poets, to enter their creative environment. This could only be done by moving to one of the centers of cultural life in the country - St. Petersburg or Moscow.

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Creative path In the summer of 1912, Yesenin moved to Moscow, for some time he served in the butcher shop where his father worked. After a conflict with his father, he left the shop and worked in a book publishing house, then in Sytin’s printing house. Like-minded people of the Surikov Literary and Musical Circle arranged for him here, of which he became a member in the same year. In the fall of 1913, Yesenin entered the historical and philosophical faculty of the academic department of the Shanyavsky People's University as a volunteer student. There was a creative literary circle at the university. Yesenin took part in his work. In the spring of 1914, he spoke at a meeting of the circle reading his poems. The members of the circle saw that before them was an extraordinary poet with great creative inclinations.

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The children's magazine "Mirok", published in Moscow, had already published four of his poems by that time (his literary debut was the poem "Birch"), and the Bolshevik newspaper "The Path of Truth" accepted his poem "The Blacksmith" for publication.

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In the spring of 1915, Sergei Yesenin came to Petrograd, where he met A.A. Blok, who appreciated the “fresh, clean, vociferous,” although “verbose” poems of the “talented peasant poet - a nugget,” helped him, introduced him to writers and publishers. At the beginning of 1916, the first book “Radunitsa” was published, which included poems written by the poet in 1910 - 1915. Here a special Yesenin “anthropomorphism” develops: animals, plants, natural phenomena, etc. are humanized by the poet, forming together with people a harmonious, holistic, beautiful world.

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At the beginning of 1918 Yesenin moved to Moscow again. Having met the revolution with enthusiasm, he wrote several short poems (“The Jordanian Dove”, “Inonia”, “Heavenly Drummer”, all 1918, and others), imbued with a joyful anticipation of the “transformation” of life. 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. Reflecting on “where the fate of events is taking us,” the poet turns to history (dramatic poem “Pugachev,” 1921).

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Searches in the field of imagery brought the poet 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 near 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 - the spiritual fundamental basis of the artistic image (treatise “The Keys of Mary”, 1919).

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At the beginning of the 1920s, Yesenin’s poems contain motifs of “a life torn apart by a storm” (in 1920, his marriage to Z.N. Reich, which lasted about three years, broke up), 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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After traveling with his wife Isadora Duncan across Europe and America, Yesenin returned to his homeland with joy, a feeling of renewal, and the desire “to be a singer and a citizen... in the great states of the USSR.” During this period, 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” and others. The main place in the poems is still occupied by the theme of the homeland, which now acquires dramatic shades. The single harmonious world of Yesenin’s Rus' bifurcates: “Soviet Rus'” - “Leaving Rus'.” The motif of the competition between old and new, outlined in the poem “Sorokoust” (1920), has been developed in poems of recent years. 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).

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Yesenin's poetry of the last, most tragic years (1922 -1925) is marked by a desire for a harmonious worldview. Most often in the lyrics one feels a deep understanding of oneself and the Universe (“I don’t regret, I don’t call, I don’t cry...”, “The golden grove dissuaded...”, “Now we are leaving little by little...”, etc.) One of his last works was the poem “Black man" (“My friend, my friend, I am very, very sick...”), in which the past life appears as part of a nightmare. Mental threads are visible that connect “The Black Man” with Yesenin’s previous work: “For my lost soul...”, “I will go away as a vagabond and a thief...”, “There is a lot of evil from joy in murderers...”, “I know that I have lived my life as a drunkard and a thief. I’ll live..."

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Love in the life of the poet There were many women who loved him, but there was little love in his life. Yesenin himself explained it this way: “No matter how much I swore mad love to anyone and no matter how much I assured myself of the same, all this, in essence, is a huge and fatal mistake. There is something that I love above all women, above any woman, and that I would not trade for any caresses or any love. This is art…"

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Anna Izryadnova Only student Anya, who also served as a proofreader for Sytin, was able to see a real poet in a seventeen-year-old boy who was four years younger than her. Anna became his first woman. Sergei felt like a grown man, a husband. Yesenin’s family life begins in the room they rented near the Serpukhov outpost. Yesenin was in a civil marriage with Anna Izryadnova, and she bore him a son. Anna didn’t contradict him and didn’t demand anything from him, she just loved him. Three months after the birth of his son, Yesenin left for Petrograd: either in search of success, or escaped from family happiness. I spent almost a year wandering back and forth. But neither Anya’s love nor the child could hold him back. Helped financially when I could. But soon the capital spun and spun.

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Zinaida Reich In one of the villages of the Vologda district, on August 4, 1917, Yesenin’s marriage to Zinaida Nikolaevna Reich was registered. Sergei met her in the early spring of 1917 at the editorial office of the Petrograd newspaper Delo Naroda, where she worked as a secretary-typist. Her parents lived in Orel. The newlyweds spent the last days of August 1917 there. After that, they rented an apartment in St. Petersburg on Liteiny Prospekt. Yesenin and his wife moved to Moscow in March 1918. They settled in a small hotel on Tverskaya; it was uncomfortable and damp there, they lived from hand to mouth, receiving meager food rations, but they worked hard. At the end of May 1918, the Yesenins had a daughter, Tatyana, and almost two years later, a son, Konstantin. But family life was not going well. The poet made terrible scandals and often beat the pregnant Zina. The poet separated from his wife even before the birth of their second child. After the breakup, Zinaida married a friend, director Meyerhold, and became an actress in his theater.

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Isadora Duncan In 1921, the famous dancer Isadora Duncan came to Moscow at the invitation of the Soviet government. In the autumn of the same year, Yesenin met her at the artist Yakudov’s apartment. Duncan did not know Russian, but the poet did not know foreign languages, and subsequently they were explained mainly by gestures. Isadora and Sergei quickly became close, and on May 2, 1922 their marriage was registered. Both young people wanted to have a double surname. Duncan was 17 and a half years older than Sergei. Before Yesenin, she was married several times, although it’s hard to call it marriage - Duncan was a supporter of women’s emancipation and free love, and considered marriage to be an obsolete thing. The couple made several trips abroad, including to the USA, and in the fall of 1923 their marriage broke up - it was too “unequal”. In his last letter to Isadora, Yesenin admitted: “I often remember you with all my gratitude to you.” Isadora outlived the poet by two years - her death occurred in the cheerful resort of Nice. Slipping off her shoulder, a long scarf fell into the spoked wheel of the car in which the dancer was sitting, which was picking up speed, wound around the axle and instantly strangled Duncan.

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Galina Benislavskaya Benislavskaya first saw Yesenin on September 19, 1920 at an evening at the Polytechnic Museum, where the poet read poetry. Soon Yesenin and Benislavskaya became close. Galina forgot that outstanding poets have loving hearts. At Sergei’s birthday, the American dancer Duncan, having heard Yesenin’s poems, immediately understood the young poet’s extraordinary talent. Without hesitation, she took him to her mansion. After almost a year and a half of traveling abroad, Yesenin no longer lived with the aging and jealous dancer. The poet again came to Benislavskaya’s room. Galina selflessly devoted a lot of time, effort and effort to at least some kind of organization of Sergei’s literary and publishing affairs. Feeling a true friend in her, Yesenin gave her various assignments, entrusted her with manuscripts, money, and negotiations with publishing houses. When Yesenin’s life was cut short, Benislavskaya ended up in a psychiatric clinic. Life has lost its meaning for her. She shot herself near the poet's grave. They buried her next to Sergei Yesenin. The words “Faithful Galya” were inscribed on the monument.

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Sophia Tolstaya Not yet divorcing Isadora Duncan, Yesenin stole Sophia from his friend, prose writer Boris Pilnyak. The poet met her in the spring of 1925 at a house party at Benislavskaya’s. In June 1925, Yesenin married Tolstoy and moved into a large, gloomy apartment with her. Sophia loved Yesenin! At a time when some types, drunk and dirty, ate, drank and used Yesenin’s money, Sonya had no new shoes, boots, nothing new, everything was old, being demolished... But the poet himself was not happy in this marriage, and the apartment simply weighed on him. Yesenin wrote sadly to his friend living in Tiflis: “Everything I hoped for and dreamed about is going to waste. Apparently, I won’t be able to settle down in Moscow. Family life is not going well, I want to run away! Where? To the Caucasus!

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Fatal days The circumstances of the poet’s life that developed by mid-1925 did little to contribute to the evolution of his spiritual world. The most fruitful period of Yesenin’s literary activity, the joyful, bright days of his life, was replaced by a new, now short-term period of mental crisis. His work again took on the tones of hopeless drama and pessimism. Having broken with Mariengof and left him, Yesenin had no shelter: he spent the night either in the “Pegasus Stable” or with friends. Then he settled with Galina Benislavskaya, who at that time worked as a journalist in the Bednota newspaper. While in the Caucasus, the poet dreamed of how, upon returning to Moscow, he would begin to live in a new way. But in Moscow a lot happened again. People forced themselves on him, constantly insisting that no one needed his lyrics. They knew that it was painful for Yesenin to think that his poems were not needed, and they vied with each other to try to intensify this pain.

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By the autumn of 1925, the unsettled, wandering life was complicated by the poet’s physical ill health. His nerves were clearly frayed, and doctors advised him to undergo a two-month course of treatment. On November 26, Yesenin was admitted for treatment to a psychoneurological clinic. He was given a separate room on the second floor. The room was spacious and bright, but the existing order irritated me. Grumbling about these inconveniences, Yesenin, however, not only received treatment, but also worked. Poems were written in the clinic: “You are my fallen maple, you are an icy maple...”, “You don’t love me, you don’t feel sorry for me...”, “Maybe it’s too late, maybe it’s too early...”, “Who am I? What am I? Just a dreamer..." But the poet left the clinic long before the expiration of the allotted time - he was so overcome by the decision to leave Moscow, to dramatically change the situation, to break away from the unnecessary people who were interfering with him. On December 21, Yesenin left the clinic premises allegedly on business (for this reason he was released before) and did not return. On the morning of December 24, the poet arrived in Leningrad. Checked into the Angletterre Hotel. But even here they did not leave him alone. He found himself again in the environment from which he had fled. The news of the poet’s death resonated with grave pain in the hearts of millions of people. It quickly spread throughout the country. The newspapers published portraits of Yesenin in a mourning frame, his farewell poem written in blood (“Goodbye, my friend, goodbye...”), obituaries, memoirs, poems... On December 31, the great Russian poet Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery.

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*** Goodbye, my friend, goodbye. My dear, you are in my chest. Destined parting Promises a meeting ahead. Goodbye, my friend, without a hand, without a word, Do not be sad and do not have sad eyebrows, - In this life, dying is not new, But living, of course, is not new. S. Yesenin, 1925

In order for schoolchildren to perceive information more effectively, it is recommended to use the Yesenin presentation. Information about an extraordinary personality is presented in a convenient form with appropriate design, reminiscent of the subtle singing of melodic stanzas. The poet’s lyrics enchant everyone who has at least once encountered his works, and his biography is so mysterious that attention to Yesenin does not wane even today.

A lesson about Yesenin’s life and work will become even more fascinating if you use visual materials during the story, such as portraits, diagrams and tables, and photographs from the last century. During the story there are also slides dedicated to Yesenin’s women. The poet was constantly rushing about in his personal life, he was surrounded by ladies, so it is unforgivable to ignore this part of his story.
The greatest poet is an extraordinary personality, so a beautiful presentation about Yesenin’s biography identifies his image. With expressive and structured accompaniment, Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin will open up to students in literature lessons with all his mystery and originality, instilling a love for poetry and his homeland.

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Biography of Yesenin
Parents
Grandfather
Zemstvo School

Parochial school
Anna Izryadova
Conflicts with authorities
Life in Petrograd

Zinaida Reich
Isadora Duncan
Galina Benislavskaya
Sofia Tolstaya

Suicide
grave

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Sergey Aleksandrovich Yesenin Presentation Lyutgolts L.V. Literature teachers of Municipal Educational Institution “Secondary School No. 23” Biography of the writer of the day

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Sergei Yesenin was born on September 21 (October 4), 1895 in the village of Konstantinovo, Ryazan province, into the family of peasant Alexander Yesenin. Alexander Nikitich Yesenin (1873-1931) and Tatyana Fedorovna Yesenina (Titova) (1865-1955).

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“From the age of two, I was given to be raised by a rather wealthy maternal grandfather, who had three adult unmarried sons, with whom I spent almost my entire childhood. My uncles were mischievous and desperate guys. At the age of three and a half, they put me on a horse without a saddle and "They immediately put me into a gallop. Then they taught me to swim. Uncle Sasha took me into a boat, drove away from the shore, took off my underwear and threw me into the water like a puppy." Yesenin about his childhood:

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Zemstvo Primary School In 1904, Yesenin was sent to study at the Konstantinovskoe Zemstvo School, and then to a church teacher's school in the town of Spas-Klepiki (1909-12), from which he graduated as a “literacy school teacher.”

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In the summer of 1912, Yesenin moved to Moscow and for some time served in a butcher shop, where his father worked as a clerk. After a conflict with his father, he left the shop, worked in book publishing, then in the printing house of I. D. Sytin Moscow

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1913 Yesenin joined the revolutionary-minded workers and found himself under police surveillance. At the same time, Yesenin studied at the historical and philosophical department of Shanyavsky University (1913-15).

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Having composed poetry since childhood (mainly in imitation of A.V. Koltsov, I.S. Nikitin, S.D. Drozhzhin), Yesenin finds like-minded people in the Surikov Literary and Musical Circle, of which he became a member in 1912. He began publishing in 1914 in Moscow children's magazines (first poem "Birch"). The poet's debut.

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Yesenin comes to Petrograd, where he meets A. A. Blok, S. M. Gorodetsky, A. M. Remizov, N. S. Gumilev, and becomes close to N. A. Klyuev, who had a significant influence on him. Their joint performances with poems and ditties, stylized in a “peasant”, “folk” manner (Yesenin appeared to the public as a golden-haired young man in an embroidered shirt and morocco boots), were a great success. 1915

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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 Tsarskoye 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. Military service

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"Radunitsa" Yesenin's first collection of poems, "Radunitsa" (1916), was enthusiastically welcomed by critics, who discovered a fresh spirit in it, noting the author's youthful spontaneity and natural taste.

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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) imbued with a joyful anticipation of the "transformation" of life. Revolution

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Imagism S.A. Yesenin 1919. Searches in the field of imagery bring Yesenin together with 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 near the Nikitsky Gate in Moscow.

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In the early 1920s. in Yesenin’s poems there appear motifs of “a life torn apart by a storm” (in 1920, a marriage that lasted about three years with Z. N. Reich broke up), 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). "Moscow Tavern"

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Isadora An event in Yesenin’s life was a meeting with the American dancer Isadora Duncan (autumn 1921), who six months later became his wife.

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Yesenin and Isadora, 1922 Joint journey through Europe (Germany, Belgium, France, Italy) and America (May 1922 August 1923),

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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.” The best works belong to this period: “The golden grove dissuaded...”, “Letter to mother”, “Now we are leaving little by little...”, the cycle “Persian motives”, the poem “Anna Snegina”, etc. 1923-1925

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One of his last works was the poem “Country of Scoundrels,” in which he denounced the Soviet regime. After this, persecution began against him in the newspapers. 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. Tragic ending