You don't love me, you don't regret me,
Am I not a little handsome?
Without looking in the face, you are thrilled with passion,
He placed his hands on my shoulders.
Young, with a sensual grin,
I am neither gentle nor rude with you.
Tell me how many people have you caressed?
How many hands do you remember? How many lips?
I know they passed by like shadows
Without touching your fire,
You sat on the knees of many,
And now you're sitting here with me.
Let your eyes be half closed
And you're thinking about someone else
I don’t really love you very much myself,
Drowning in the distant dear.
Don't call this ardor fate
A frivolous hot-tempered connection, -
How I met you by chance,
I smile, calmly walking away.
Yes, and you will go your own way
Sprinkle joyless days
Just don’t touch those who haven’t been kissed,
Just don’t lure those who haven’t been burned.
And when with another in the alley
You'll walk by chatting about love
Maybe I'll go for a walk
And we will meet again with you.
Turning your shoulders closer to the other
And leaning down a little,
You will tell me quietly: “Good evening!”
I will answer: “Good evening, miss.”
And nothing will disturb the soul,
And nothing will make her tremble, -
He who loved cannot love,
You can't set fire to someone who's burned out.
Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin. Born on September 21 (October 3), 1895 in the village of Konstantinovo, Ryazan province - died on December 28, 1925 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). Great Russian poet, representative of new peasant poetry and lyrics, as well as imagism.
Born in the village of Konstantinovo, Kuzminsky volost, Ryazan district, Ryazan province, into a peasant family.
Father - Alexander Nikitich Yesenin (1873-1931).
Mother - Tatyana Fedorovna Titova (1875-1955).
Sisters - Ekaterina (1905-1977), Alexandra (1911-1981).
In 1904, Yesenin went to the Konstantinovsky Zemstvo School, after which in 1909 he began his studies at the parish second-grade teacher's school (now the S. A. Yesenin Museum) in Spas-Klepiki. After graduating from school, in the fall of 1912, Yesenin left home, then arrived in Moscow, worked in a butcher 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 student. He worked in a printing house and was friends with the poets of the Surikov literary and musical circle.
In 1914, Yesenin's poems were first published in the children's magazine Mirok.
In 1915, Yesenin came from Moscow to Petrograd, read his poems to S. M. Gorodetsky and other poets. In January 1916, Yesenin was drafted into the war and, thanks to the efforts of his friends, he received an appointment (“with the highest permission”) as an orderly on the Tsarskoe Selo military hospital train No. 143 of Her Imperial Majesty the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. At this time, he became close to the group of “new peasant poets” and published the first collections (“Radunitsa” - 1916), which made him very famous. Together with Nikolai Klyuev he often performed, including before Empress Alexandra Feodorovna and her daughters in Tsarskoe 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 acquaintance with Anatoly Mariengof and his active participation in the Moscow group of imagists dates back to 1918 - early 1920s.
During the period of Yesenin’s passion for imagism, several collections of the poet’s poems were published - “Treryadnitsa”, “Confession of a Hooligan” (both 1921), “Poems of a Brawler” (1923), “Moscow Tavern” (1924), the poem “Pugachev”.
In 1921, the poet, together with his friend Yakov Blumkin, traveled to Central Asia, visited the Urals and the Orenburg region. From May 13 to June 3, he stayed in Tashkent with his friend and poet Alexander Shiryaevets. There Yesenin spoke to the public several times, read poems at poetry evenings and in the houses of his Tashkent friends. According to eyewitnesses, Yesenin loved to visit the old city, teahouses of the old city and Urda, listen to Uzbek poetry, music and songs, and visit the picturesque surroundings of Tashkent with his friends. He also made a short trip to Samarkand.
In the fall of 1921, in the workshop of G. B. Yakulov, Yesenin met a dancer, whom he married six months later. After the wedding, Yesenin and Duncan traveled to Europe (Germany, France, Belgium, Italy) and to the USA (4 months), where he stayed from May 1922 to August 1923. The Izvestia newspaper published Yesenin’s notes about America “Iron Mirgorod”. The marriage to Duncan ended shortly after their return from abroad.
In the early 1920s, Yesenin was actively involved in book publishing, as well as selling books in a bookstore he rented on Bolshaya Nikitskaya, which occupied almost all of the poet’s time. In the last years of his life, Yesenin traveled a lot around the country. He visited the Caucasus three times, went to Leningrad several times, and Konstantinovo seven times.
In 1924-1925, Yesenin visited Azerbaijan, published a collection of poems in the Krasny Vostok printing house, and was published in a local publishing house. There is a version that here, in May 1925, the poetic “Message to the Evangelist Demyan” was written. Lived in the village of Mardakan (a suburb of Baku). Currently, his house-museum and memorial plaque are located here.
In 1924, Yesenin decided to break with imagism due to disagreements with A. B. Mariengof. Yesenin and Ivan Gruzinov published an open letter about the dissolution of the group.
Sharply critical articles about him began to appear in newspapers, accusing him of drunkenness, rowdy behavior, fights and other antisocial behavior, although the poet, with his behavior (especially in the last years of his life), sometimes himself gave grounds for this kind of criticism. Several criminal cases were opened against Yesenin, mainly on charges of hooliganism; The Case of Four Poets, associated with the accusation of Yesenin and his friends of anti-Semitic statements, is also known.
The Soviet government was worried about Yesenin's health. Thus, in a letter from Rakovsky dated October 25, 1925, Rakovsky asks “to save the life of the famous poet Yesenin - undoubtedly the most talented in our Union,” suggesting: “invite him to your place, treat him well and send with him to the sanatorium a comrade from the GPU, who I wouldn’t let him get drunk...” On the letter is Dzerzhinsky’s resolution addressed to his close comrade, secretary, manager of the affairs of the GPU V.D. Gerson: “M. b., could you study?” Next to it is Gerson’s note: “I called repeatedly but could not find Yesenin.”
At the end of November 1925, Sofya Tolstaya agreed with the director of the paid psychoneurological clinic of Moscow University, Professor P. B. Gannushkin, about the poet’s hospitalization in his clinic. Only a few people close to the poet knew about this. On December 21, 1925, Yesenin left the clinic, canceled all powers of attorney at the State Publishing House, withdrew almost all the money from the savings book and a day later left for Leningrad, where he stayed at No. 5 of the Angleterre Hotel.
In Leningrad, the last days of Yesenin’s life were marked by meetings with N. A. Klyuev, G. F. Ustinov, Ivan Pribludny, V. I. Erlikh, I. I. Sadofyev, N. N. Nikitin and other writers.
Personal life of Sergei Yesenin:
In 1913, Sergei Yesenin met Anna Romanovna Izryadnova, who worked as a proofreader in the printing house of the I. D. Sytin Partnership, where Yesenin went to work. In 1914 they entered into a civil marriage. On December 21, 1914, Anna Izryadnova gave birth to a son named Yuri (shot on false charges in 1937).
In 1917, he met and on July 30 of the same year got married in the village of Kiriki-Ulita, Vologda province, with a Russian actress, the future wife of director V. E. Meyerhold. The groom's guarantors were Pavel Pavlovich Khitrov, a peasant from the village of Ivanovskaya, Spasskaya volost, and Sergei Mikhailovich Baraev, a peasant from the village of Ustya, Ustyanskaya volost, and the bride's guarantors were Alexey Alekseevich Ganin and Dmitry Dmitrievich Devyatkov, a merchant's son from the city of Vologda. The wedding took place in the building of the Passage Hotel. From this marriage were born a daughter, Tatyana (1918-1992), a journalist and writer, and a son, Konstantin (1920-1986), a civil engineer, football statistician and journalist. At the end of 1919 (or at the beginning of 1920), Yesenin left the family, and Zinaida Reich, who was pregnant with her son (Konstantin), was left with her one-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Tatyana. On February 19, 1921, the poet filed for divorce, in which he undertook to provide for them financially (the divorce was officially filed in October 1921). Subsequently, Yesenin repeatedly visited his children adopted by Meyerhold.
From his first collections of poetry (“Radunitsa”, 1916; “Rural Book of Hours”, 1918) he appeared as a subtle lyricist, a master of deeply psychologized landscape, a singer of peasant Rus', an expert on the folk language and the folk soul.
In 1919-1923 he was a member of the Imagist group. A tragic attitude and mental confusion are expressed in the cycles “Mare’s Ships” (1920), “Moscow Tavern” (1924), and the poem “The Black Man” (1925). In the poem “The Ballad of the Twenty-Six” (1924), dedicated to the Baku commissars, the collection “Soviet Rus'” (1925), and the poem “Anna Snegina” (1925), Yesenin sought to comprehend “the commune-raised Rus',” although he continued to feel like a poet of “Leaving Rus'” ", "golden log hut". Dramatic poem “Pugachev” (1921).
In 1920, Yesenin lived with his literary secretary Galina Benislavskaya. Throughout his life he met her several times, sometimes lived at Benislavskaya’s house, until his marriage to S. A. Tolstoy in the fall of 1925.
In 1921, from May 13 to June 3, the poet stayed in Tashkent with his friend, Tashkent poet Alexander Shiryaevets. At the invitation of the director of the Turkestan Public Library, on May 25, 1921, Yesenin spoke in the library at a literary evening organized by his friends in front of the audience of the “Art Studio”, which existed at the library. Yesenin arrived in Turkestan in the carriage of his friend Kolobov, a senior employee of the NKPS. He lived on this train throughout his stay in Tashkent, then on this train he traveled to Samarkand, Bukhara and Poltoratsk (present-day Ashgabat). On June 3, 1921, Sergei Yesenin left Tashkent and on June 9, 1921 returned to Moscow. By coincidence, most of the life of the poet’s daughter Tatyana was spent in Tashkent.
In the fall of 1921, in the workshop of G. B. Yakulov, Yesenin met the dancer Isadora Duncan, whom he married on May 2, 1922. At the same time, Yesenin did not speak English, and Duncan could barely express herself in Russian. Immediately after the wedding, Yesenin accompanied Duncan on tours in Europe (Germany, Belgium, France, Italy) and the USA. Usually, when describing this union, authors note its love-scandal side, but these two artists were undoubtedly brought together by their creative relationship. However, their marriage was brief, and in August 1923 Yesenin returned to Moscow.
In 1923, Yesenin became acquainted with the actress Augusta Miklashevskaya, to whom he dedicated seven heartfelt poems from the series “The Love of a Hooligan.” In one of the lines, the name of the actress is obviously encrypted: “Why does your name ring like August coolness?” It is noteworthy that in the fall of 1976, when the actress was already 85, in a conversation with literary critics, Augusta Leonidovna admitted that her affair with Yesenin was platonic and she did not even kiss the poet.
On May 12, 1924, Yesenin had a son, Alexander, after an affair with the poetess and translator Nadezhda Volpin - later a famous mathematician and figure in the dissident movement, Yesenin’s only living child.
On September 18, 1925, Yesenin married for the third (and last) time - to Sofya Andreevna Tolstoy (1900-1957), the granddaughter of L. N. Tolstoy, at that time the head of the library of the Writers' Union. This marriage also did not bring happiness to the poet and soon broke up. Restless loneliness became one of the main reasons for Yesenin’s tragic end. After the poet’s death, Tolstaya devoted her life to collecting, preserving, describing and preparing for publication Yesenin’s works, and left memoirs about him.
According to the memoirs of N. Sardanovsky and the poet’s letters, Yesenin was a vegetarian for some time.
Death of Sergei Yesenin:
On December 28, 1925, Yesenin was found dead in the Leningrad Angleterre Hotel. His last poem - “Goodbye, my friend, goodbye...” - according to Wolf Ehrlich, was given to him the day before: Yesenin complained that there was no ink in the room, and he was forced to write with his own blood.
According to the version that is now generally accepted among academic researchers of Yesenin’s life, the poet, in a state of depression (a week after finishing treatment in a psychoneurological hospital), committed suicide (hanged himself).
After a civil funeral service at the Union of Poets in Leningrad, Yesenin’s body was transported by train to Moscow, where a farewell ceremony was also held at the House of Press with the participation of relatives and friends of the deceased. He was buried on December 31, 1925 in Moscow at the Vagankovskoye cemetery.
Neither immediately after Yesenin’s death, nor in the next few decades after the poet’s death, no other versions of his death other than suicide were put forward.
In the 1970-1980s, versions arose about the murder of the poet, followed by the staging of Yesenin’s suicide (as a rule, OGPU employees are accused of organizing the murder). Investigator of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department, retired colonel Eduard Khlystalov, contributed to the development of this version. The version of Yesenin’s murder has penetrated into popular culture: in particular, it is presented in artistic form in the television series “Yesenin” (2005).
In 1989, under the auspices of the Gorky IMLI, the Yesenin Commission was created under the chairmanship of the Soviet and Russian Yesenin scholar Yu. L. Prokushev; at her request, a series of examinations were carried out, which led to the following conclusion: “the now published “versions” of the murder of the poet followed by a staged hanging, despite some discrepancies... are a vulgar, incompetent interpretation of special information, sometimes falsifying the results of the examination” (from the official response of Professor of the Department of Forensic Medicine, Doctor of Medical Sciences B. S. Svadkovsky to the request of the Chairman of the Commission Yu. L. Prokushev). Versions of Yesenin’s murder are considered late fiction or “unconvincing” by other biographers of the poet.
In 1904, Yesenin went to the Konstantinovsky Zemstvo School, after which in 1909 he began his studies at the parish second-grade teacher's school (now the S. A. Yesenin Museum) in Spas-Klepiki. After graduating from school, in the fall of 1912, Yesenin left home. He went to Moscow, worked in a butcher 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 student. He worked in a printing house and was friends with the poets of the Surikov literary and musical circle.
A small retreat
About thirty or forty years ago, all the enthusiastic girls and even some young men of the Soviet Union discovered with spiritual trepidation the poets of the early twentieth century: S. Yesenin, A. Blok, the lyrical V. Mayakovsky. The more advanced ones 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 by the school curriculum, and if you were particularly enthusiastic, you could even get interviewed by the State Security Committee and lose your love for literature forever. But how beautiful and desirable were the poems of these decadents and renegades. There was so much otherworldliness in them, far from the drabness of everyday life of socialist life. There is so much longing for something unfulfilled and a premonition of a global catastrophe. It is strange that now these poems are almost not in demand, although a century later in society there is still the same cocaine frenzy and a vague desire for a great rebellion, which will invariably end in great blood. Unfortunately, texts containing “many letters” are not read by the population. But I really want to believe that the next generations will discover both the “beautiful lady” and the “gray-eyed king,” but hope dies last.Let's continue about Yesenin
In 1912, after graduating from school, Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin went to work in Moscow. There he gets a job at the printing house of I.D. Sytin as an assistant proofreader. Working in the printing house allowed the young poet to read many books and gave him the opportunity to become a member of the Surikov literary and musical circle. The poet’s first common-law wife, Anna Izryadnova, describes Yesenin in those years: “He was reputed to be a leader, attended meetings, distributed illegal literature. I pounced on books, read all my free time, spent all my salary on books, magazines, did not think at all about how to live...”
In 1913, S. A. Yesenin entered the Faculty of History and Philosophy of the Moscow City People's University. Shanyavsky. It was the country's first free university for students. There Sergei Yesenin listened to lectures on Western European literature and Russian poets.
But, in 1914, Yesenin gave up work and study, and, according to Anna Izryadnova, devoted 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 drafted into the war and, thanks to the efforts of his friends, he received an appointment (“with the highest permission”) as an orderly on the Tsarskoe Selo military hospital train No. 143 of Her Imperial Majesty the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. At this time, he became close to the group of “new peasant poets” and published the first collections (“Radunitsa” - 1916), which made him very famous. Together with Nikolai Klyuev he often performed, including before Empress Alexandra Feodorovna and her daughters in Tsarskoe 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
At the beginning of 1918 Yesenin moved to Moscow. Having met the revolution with enthusiasm, he wrote several short poems ("The Jordan Dove", "Inonia", "Heavenly Drummer", all 1918, etc.), imbued with a joyful anticipation of the "transformation" of life. They combine godless sentiments with biblical imagery to indicate the scale and significance of the events taking place. Yesenin, chanting the new reality and its heroes, tried to correspond to the times (Cantata, 1919). In later years he wrote “Song of the Great March”, 1924, “Captain of the Earth”, 1925, etc.). Reflecting on “where the fate of events is taking us,” the poet turns to history (dramatic poem “Pugachev”, 1921).
At the age of 21, Yesenin writes a poem about his passing youth.
The theme of the poem is the theme of passing youth, youth. The main idea - farewell to youth - is a painful feeling for which the author sings the song. The overall emotional tone of the poem is elegiac, sad, but without despondency. It is created thanks to elements of poetics.Special selection of vocabulary. The very beginning of the poem carries a hint of farewell. The repeated negative construction with “not” reinforces this connotation. In addition, the expressions “my life”, “vagrant spirit” seem to explode and do not retain the elegiac mood.
The central stanzas are an appeal to your heart, slightly “touched by a chill” and to your own life. Rhythmically, the text is structured quite clearly, which is facilitated by the trochee pentameter.
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 the unrealizable, wild dreams that are characteristic of youth (seeing life “in a rosy light”, wearing “rose-colored glasses” that embellish reality), and the color of dawn. But in the next stanza the color palette changes. The color of dreams, youth and adolescence turns into the copper color of maple leaves (this association involuntarily suggests itself - about a person who has experienced a lot, seen a lot, they say “he has passed through copper pipes”).
Five feet in the poem make the text smooth and soft. This is also facilitated by the female open rhyme, which is present in the first and third lines of the quatrains. Alternating with masculine rhyme in the second and fourth lines, the author creates 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 the “resonant early morning of spring” is replaced by life in a perishable world, the complexities of which are not noticed in youth.
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, and idea of the poem. Thanks to a special selection of vocabulary, simple construction of phrases, and unique sound selection, S. Yesenin’s poem finds a response in the hearts of readers of different ages. It is not without reason that many of Yesenin’s works, including this one, became popular songs in their time.
Return to homeland
At the end of the summer of 1923, Sergei Yesenin returned to his homeland. Here the poet had another short affair with translator Nadezhda Volpin, from whom his 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 and Azerbaijan.
In one of his last poems, “The Country of Scoundrels,” Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin writes very harshly 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 Transcaucasia.
Episodes of life
Despite the fact that Yesenin abused alcohol in the last years of his life, he did not write poetry while drunk. The poet’s memoirs also talk about this. One day Yesenin admitted to his friend: “I have a desperate reputation as a drunkard and a hooligan, 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 was also very interested in her, despite the noticeable age difference. Isadora dreamed of glorifying her Russian husband and took him with her on a tour - around Europe and America. Yesenin explained his scandalous behavior during the trip in his characteristic manner: “Yes, I caused a scandal. I needed them to know me, so they would remember me. What, am I going to read poetry to them? Poems for Americans? I would only become ridiculous in their eyes. But stealing the tablecloth and all the dishes from the table, whistling in the theater, disrupting the traffic order - this is understandable to them. If I do this, I'm a millionaire. That means it’s possible for me. So respect is ready, and glory and honor! Oh, they remember me better than Duncan!” In fact, Yesenin quickly realized that abroad he was just “husband Duncan” to everyone, broke off relations with the dancer and returned home.
Unsuccessful marriage with Sophia
In the fall 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, which is punishable by execution. Yesenin spent the last year of his life in illness, wandering and drunkenness. Due to heavy drunkenness, S. A. Yesenin spent some time in the psychoneurological 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. Death of poet
In this hotel, in room No. 5, on December 28, 1925, Sergei was found dead.Law enforcement agencies did not initiate a criminal case, despite the fact that the body showed signs of violent death. 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 year 1925 in Moscow at the Vagankovskoye cemetery.
In the 80s, versions appeared and began to develop more and more that the poet was killed and then staged a suicide. This crime is attributed to people who worked in the OGPU in those years. But for now, all of this remains just a version.
During his short life, the great poet managed to leave his descendants living on Earth an invaluable legacy in the form of his poetry. A subtle lyricist with knowledge of the people's soul masterfully described peasant Rus' in his poems. Many of his works were set to music, resulting in excellent romances.
Yesenin's best poems:
1ST OF MAY 
There is music, poetry and dancing,
There are lies and flattery...
Let them scold me for stanzas -
There is truth in them.
I saw a holiday, a May holiday -
And amazed.
I was ready to bend over, hugging
All maidens and wives.
Where will you go, who will you tell
For someone's "henna"
What's in the sun-bathed yarn
Balakhany?
Well, how can you not carve an anthem into your heart,
Don't go into trembling?
Forty thousand walked and sang
And they drank too.
Poetry! poetry! Not very left!
Sorry! 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 Day
Behind the Council of People's Commissars.
Second glass, so, not very much
Lie down in the car
I drank proudly to the workers
Under someone's speech.
And I drank my third glass,
Like a certain khan
For not bending over wheezing
The fate of the peasants.
Drink, heart! Just not point blank,
To ruin life...
That's why I drank the fourth
Only for you.
Oh, how many cats there are in the world,
You and I will never count them.
The heart dreams of sweet peas,
And the blue star rings.
Whether in reality, in delirium or awake,
I just remember from a distant day -
A kitten purred on the bed,
Looking at me indifferently.
I was still a child then
But to the grandmother's song I jump up
He rushed like a young tiger cub,
On the ball she dropped.
Everything is over. 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 a huge number of holidays, both Orthodox and Christian, celebrated at the official level. However, to our great regret, there is no celebration of events dedicated to the anniversaries of the greatest figures of art and poetry. I would like to talk 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, starting in 1985. Every year it brings together 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. Anyone can buy a variety of crafts made from wood or straw as a souvenir or as a gift to someone else, or take part in their creation themselves.
Then people go to the monument to Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin to lay flowers. By the way, they say that if you hold the finger on the poet’s right hand, it’s good luck. Visitors use this ritual very often.
Continuation of the festive event
After laying flowers at the poet’s monument, people visit local attractions: the school where Sergei Yesenin once studied, the balsam poplar planted by the poet with his own hands in 1924, as well as the State Museum-Reserve in honor of this writer, which hosts an exhibition from the museum’s funds , holiday excursions.
Then the celebration moves to theater and poetry venues, on the stages of which performances are held 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 worthily 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, poetry performances and theatrical performances. And the most striking event of this day was the production of the play “Hooligan. Confession”, in which such a famous artist as Sergei Bezrukov took part.
A few more poems
The ships are sailing
To Constantinople.
Trains leave for Moscow.
Is it from human noise?
Or from the osprey
Everyday I feel
Longing.
I'm far away
Far abandoned
Even closer
It looks like the moon.
Handfuls of water peas
Black Sea splashing
Wave.
Every day
I come to the pier
I'm seeing everyone off
Who don't you feel sorry for?
And I look more and more painfully
And more closely
Into the enchanted distance.
Maybe from Le Havre
Ile Marseille
will sail
Louise il Jeannette,
Which I remember
Hitherto,
But which
Not at all.
The smell of the sea in the taste
Smoky-bitter,
May be,
Miss Mitchell
Or Claude
They will remember me
In NYC,
After reading the translation of this thing.
We are all looking
In this brown world
Those who call us
Invisible traces. 
Isn’t that why
Like lamps with a lampshade,
Do jellyfish glow from the water?
That's why
When meeting a foreigner
I'm under the squeaks
Schooners and ships
I hear a voice
Weeping barrel organ
Or distant
The cry of the cranes.
Isn't this her?
Isn't she?
Well, maybe in life?
Can you figure it out?
If now she
Caught up
And they sped away
Flared trousers.
Every day
I come to the pier
I'm seeing everyone off
Who don't you feel sorry for?
And I look more and more painfully
And more closely
Into the enchanted distance.
And others are here
They live differently.
And no wonder at night
A whistle is heard -
This means,
With the agility of a dog
A smuggler sneaks in.
The border guard is not afraid
Quickly.
The one noticed by him will not leave
Enemy,
That's why so often
A shot is heard
On sea, salty
Shores.
But the enemy is tenacious,
No matter how you shake him,
That's why it turns blue
All Batum.
Even the sea seems to me
Indigo
Under the boulevard
Laughter and noise.
And there is something to laugh about
Cause.
It's not that much
In the world of divas.
He's walking around crazy
old man,
Having placed the rooster in the dark.
Laughing myself
I'm going to the pier again
I'm seeing everyone off
Who don't you feel sorry for?
And I look more and more painfully
And more closely
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 the hard ground with a plow,
And listen to songs about grief,
What does he sing as he walks along the furrow?
Or is there no tender pity in you
To the sufferer a plow and a harrow?
You yourself see death as inevitable,
And you pass by it.
Help us fight against bondage,
Drenched in wine and in need!
Or don’t you hear, he’s crying a lot
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 Aleksandrovich Yesenin. His poems are an extraordinary depth of love for his homeland. Nature and Yesenin are an inextricable 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 took part in peasant haymaking. The peasants had to feed the mowers and the boys who helped them well, who often remained to live in the fields. For this, they stocked up on food: lard, eggs, cottage cheese, yogurt. The housewives were baking pancakes and fighting. They made compotes. Everyone took care of the mowers, who had a hard time getting hay.After the First World War, people in the villages became poor and baked bread with the addition of sorrel, quinoa, and chaff.
It was not easy for the young poet in the capital, where he moved with a notebook of his poems. When Yesenin came to the then-famous Alexander Blok in 1915, he did not notice in the conversation that he ate a bun. Blok also offered scrambled eggs. The young body did not have the strength to refuse the treat.
Yesenin himself was a hospitable person. He always had guests in his house. Yesenin himself liked to get up exactly at 9 o’clock. By this time, the samovar was humming on the table, and the poet’s favorite white rolls were beckoning with a delicious smell. Yesenin loved to drink tea.
In the Imagist cafe, Sergei Yesenin took part in a fundraiser: they bought bread and sausage with money collected from their pockets, and made sandwiches. There was no money for more yet. The poets were almost always hungry. One day, while talking, they also didn’t notice how they ate a large piece of butter without bread from the journalist L. Povitsky.
It so happened that Yesenin did not have his own house, which he dreamed of. This was painful for him. The manuscripts were in different places, it was necessary to go back and forth for them, so in the poet’s pocket there could be a bundle with something edible, for example, pickles. When Yesenin lived in Rostov in a company car, he always had a samovar on his table, and the poet treated his guests to tea.
During a trip to Tashkent, I enjoyed eating fruits, kebabs, pilaf, and drinking green tea.
In Georgia he tried dogwood juice, which he liked.
Before his death, Yesenin was hospitalized, from which he escaped. He went to the Mouse Hole cafe. There I ordered myself sausages with stewed cabbage and beer.
Yesenin loved borscht with ears. Fans of the poet and Russian cuisine should know his recipe.
You need 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 pan with the cooked cabbage. Cook until done and add spices to taste.
The ears were prepared for the borscht: boiled buckwheat porridge was mixed with sautéed onions. Thinly rolled out the usual dough from water, flour, eggs, salt, cut into diamonds. The filling was placed in rhombuses. The edges, moistened with egg, were pinched. These diamonds 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, and parsley root were cut into strips before frying. All vegetables and mushrooms were poured with kvass, salted and cooked until tender. This is an old Pskov-Pechersk style borscht.
The cooked borscht that Sergei Yesenin loved can be considered a tribute to the memory of the wonderful poet and good person who did not have to get up for breakfast on December 28, 1925.
More poems
It smells like loose hogweed;
There's kvass in the bowl at the doorstep,
Over chiseled stoves
Cockroaches crawl into the groove.
Soot curls over the damper,
There are threads of Popelitz in the stove,
And on the bench behind the salt shaker -
Raw egg husks.
The mother can't cope with the grips,
Bends low
An old cat sneaks up to the makhotka
For fresh milk.
Restless chickens cluck
Above the shafts of the plow,
There is a harmonious mass in the yard
The roosters are crowing.
And in the window on the canopy there are slopes,
From the timid noise,
From the corners the puppies are shaggy
They crawl into the clamps.
There are doors like this in Khorossan,
Where the threshold is strewn with roses.
A pensive peri lives there.
There are doors like this in Khorossan,
But I couldn't open those doors.
I have quite a bit of strength in my hands,
There is gold and copper in the hair.
Peri's voice is gentle and beautiful.
I have quite a bit of strength in my hands,
But I couldn't unlock the doors.
And for what? Who should I sing songs to? -
If Shaga has become unjealous,
Since I couldn't unlock the doors,
There is no need for courage in my love.
Persia! Am I leaving you?
Am I parting with you forever?
Out of love for my native land?
It's time for me to go back to Rus'.
Goodbye, peri, goodbye,
Even if I couldn’t unlock the doors,
You gave beautiful suffering,
I can sing about you in my homeland.
Goodbye, peri, goodbye.
The evening raised black eyebrows.
Someone's horses are standing in the yard.
Wasn’t it just yesterday that I drank away my youth?
Didn’t I stop loving you yesterday?
Don't snore, belated three!
Our life flashed by without a trace.
Maybe tomorrow there's a hospital bed
Will put me to rest forever.
Maybe tomorrow will be completely different
I will leave, healed forever,
Listen to the songs of rain and bird cherry trees,
How does a healthy person live?
I will forget the dark forces,
That they tormented me, destroying me.
The appearance is affectionate! Cute look!
The only one I won’t forget is you.
May I love another
But also with her, with her beloved, with the other,
I'll tell you about you, dear,
That I once called dear.
I'll tell you how the old one flowed
Our life, which was not the same...
Are you my bold head?
What have you brought me to?
Sergei Yesenin, his life and work represents a unique phenomenon in Russian history, culture and literature. Interest in it not only does not fade over the years, but also periodically flares up with renewed vigor. The most heated debate in recent years has been about 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 murder. Recently, a clear “Stalinist trace” in the crime against Yesenin was revealed, with the “Stalinist handwriting” characteristic of such unsolved crimes. However, there is a huge force of inertia, both of official government institutions and official cultural institutions, which does not allow an objective investigation to be carried out within the framework of modern legislation.
2. In 1909, Sergei Yesenin studied at the parish teacher’s school in Spas-Klepiki. Today it is no longer a school, but a museum of S.A. Yesenina.
3. After graduating from school in 1912, Yesenin went to Moscow, where he worked in a butcher shop.
4. Yesenin was married three times. His last wife, Sofya Andreevna Tolstaya, was the granddaughter of Lev Nikolaevich 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 just over a year. In 1968, a British-French film dedicated to this dancer, called “Isadora,” was released. The role of Yesenin went to a certain Zvonimir Crnko.
6. Sergei Yesenin is one of the many Russian poets whose poems were used in songs. At different times, songs based on Yesenin’s poems were performed by Alexander Malinin (“Fun”), the Alpha group, Lyudmila Zykina (“Hear the sleigh rushing”), Nadezhda Babkina (“The golden grove dissuaded”), Galina Nenasheva “Birch”, Nikolai Karachentsov (“ Queen"), Oleg Pogudin, Nikita Dzhigurda, gr. Mongol Shuudan (“Moscow”), Vika Tsyganova, Zemfira and many others.
7. While married, Sergei Yesenin had an affair with the poetess and translator Nadezhda Volpin. From this union they had an illegitimate son, Alexander, in 1924. The man lived a long, fruitful life and bore the double surname Yesenin-Volpin.
8. On December 28, 1925, Yesenin is found hanging from 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, goodbye...”. Sergei was buried in Moscow at the Vagankovskoye cemetery.
9. Many are still arguing about the death of Sergei Yesenin. They say that he could not hang himself because there was no reason for this. Contemporaries note that on the eve of his death he was cheerful and cheerful, in addition, he was so 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 involved in all of Yesenin’s literary affairs and 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 Catherine 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 Vagankovskoye cemetery. She also left a suicide note containing the following lines: “In this grave, everything that is most dear to me ...”
Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin (September 21 (October 3) 1895, the village of Konstantinovo, Ryazan province - December 28, 1925, Leningrad) - a great Russian poet, one of the most outstanding Russian poets of the 20th century, his lyric poems represented new peasant poetry, and later creativity belongs to imagism.
Sergei Yesenin: biography
Sergei Yesenin was born in the village of Konstantinovo, Kuzminsky volost, Ryazan district, Ryazan province, into a peasant family. Father - Alexander Nikitich Yesenin (1873-1931), mother - Tatyana Fedorovna Titova (1875-1955). Sisters - Ekaterina (1905-1977), Alexandra (1911-1981).
Sergei Yesenin in childhood
The childhood of Sergei Yesenin
It is hardly possible to find a more Russian place in all of vast Russia than the Ryazan province. It was there, in the Kuzminskaya volost in the small village of Konstantinovo, that a brilliant man, the poet Sergei Yesenin, was born, who loved his Rus' to the point of aching pain in his heart. Only a true son of the Russian land, which turned out to be the little boy who was born on October 3, 1895, can love his Motherland so deeply and devote his entire life and creativity to it.
The head of the family, Alexander Nikitich, while still a child, sang in the choir at the church. And in adulthood he worked in a Moscow butcher shop, so he was at home on weekends. Such paternal service in Moscow served as a reason for discord in the family; mother Tatyana Fedorovna began working in Ryazan, where she met another man, Ivan Razgulyaev, from whom she later gave birth to a son, Alexander. Therefore, it was decided to send Seryozha to be raised by a wealthy Old Believer grandfather. Later, the parents finally got back together, Sergei had two sisters: Katya and Alexandra.
And so it turned out that Sergei’s earliest childhood (1899-1904) was spent in the village with his maternal grandparents, Fyodor and Natalia Titov.
Sergei Yesenin’s grandfather was an expert in church books, and his grandmother knew many songs, fairy tales, ditties, and as the poet himself claimed, it was his grandmother who pushed him to write his first poems.
Three more of their sons lived with his grandfather and grandmother; they were not married, and the poet’s carefree childhood years passed with them. For some reason, these guys were no strangers to mischief, so at the age of three and a half they put their little nephew on a horse without a saddle and galloped into the field. And then there was swimming training, when one of the uncles put little Seryozha with him in a boat, sailed away from the shore, took off his clothes and, like a little dog, threw him into the river.
Sergei began to compose his first, not yet entirely conscious, poems at an early age, the impetus for this was his grandmother’s fairy tales. In the evenings before going to bed, she told their little grandson a lot, but some had a bad ending, Seryozha didn’t like it, and he remade the endings of the fairy tales in his own way.
The grandfather insisted that the boy begin to learn to read and write early. Already at the age of five, Seryozha learned to read religious literature, for which among rural children he received the nickname Seryoga the Monk, although he was known as a terrible fidget, a fighter, and his whole body was constantly covered in abrasions and scratches.
And the future poet really liked it when his mother sang. Already in adulthood, he loved listening to her songs.
Education
After such home education, the family decided to send Seryozha to study at the Konstantinovsky Zemstvo School. He studied there from nine to fourteen years old and was distinguished not only by his brilliant abilities, but also by his bad behavior. Therefore, in one year of study, by decision of the school administrator, he was left for the second year. But still, the final grades were exceptionally high.
At this time, the parents of the future genius decided to live together again. The boy began to come to his home more often during the holidays. Here he went to the local priest, who had an impressive library with books from various authors. He carefully studied many volumes, which could not but influence his creative development.
After graduating from the zemstvo school, he moved to the parish school, located in the village of Spas-Klepki. Already in 1909, after five years of study, Yesenin graduated from the Zemstvo School in Konstantinovka. His family's dream was for their grandson to become a teacher. He was able to realize it after studying at Spas-Klepiki.
It was there that he graduated from the second-class teacher's school. She also worked at the church parish, as was customary in those days. Now there is a museum dedicated to the work of this great poet. But after receiving his teaching education, Yesenin decided to go to Moscow.
In crowded Moscow, he had to work both in a butcher shop and in a printing house. His own father got him a job in the shop, since the young man had to ask him for help in finding a job. Then he got him a job in an office where Yesenin quickly became bored with the monotonous work.
When he served in the printing house as an assistant proofreader, he quickly became friends with poets who were part of Surikov’s literary and musical circle.
Perhaps this influenced the fact that in 1913 S. A. Yesenin entered the Faculty of History and Philosophy of the Moscow City People's University. Shanyavsky. It was the country's first free university for students. There Sergei Yesenin listened to lectures on Western European literature and Russian poets.
The poet’s first common-law wife, Anna Izryadnova, describes Yesenin in those years: “He was reputed to be a leader, attended meetings, distributed illegal literature. I pounced on books, read all my free time, spent all my salary on books, magazines, did not think at all about how to live...”
But, in 1914, Yesenin gave up work and study, and, according to Anna Izryadnova, devoted himself entirely to poetry.
In 1914, the poet's poems were first published in the children's magazine Mirok. In January, his poems begin to be published in the newspapers Nov, Parus, Zarya. In the same year, S. Yesenin and A. Izryadnova had a son, Yuri, who was shot in 1937.
Creativity of Sergei Yesenin
Yesenin’s passion for writing poetry was born in Spas-Klepiki, where he studied at a parish teacher’s school. Naturally, the works had a spiritual orientation and were not yet imbued with notes of lyrics. Such works include: “Stars”, “My Life”. When the poet was in Moscow (1912-1915), it was there that he began his more confident attempts at writing.
It is also very important that during this period in his works:
The poetic device of imagery was used. The works were replete with skillful metaphors, direct or figurative images.
During this period, new peasant imagery was also visible.
One could also notice Russian symbolism, since the genius loved the work of Alexander Blok.
The first published work was the poem “Birch”. Historians note that when writing it, Yesenin was inspired by the works of A. Fet. Then he took the pseudonym Ariston, not daring to send the poem to print under his own name. It was published in 1914 by the Mirok magazine.
The first book “Radunitsa” was published in 1916. Russian modernism was also evident in it, as the young man moved to Petrograd and began to communicate with famous writers and poets:
CM. Gorodetsky.
Z.N. Gippius.
D.V. Philosophers.
A. A. Blok.
In “Radunitsa” there are notes of dialectism and numerous parallels drawn between the natural and the spiritual, since the name of the book is the day when the dead are venerated. At the same time, the arrival of spring occurs, in honor of which the peasants sing traditional songs. This is the connection with nature, its renewal and honoring those who have passed on.
Sergei Yesenin was always elegant
The poet's style also changes, as he begins to dress a little more fabulously and more elegantly. This could also have been influenced by his guardian Klyuev, who supervised him from 1915 to 1917. The poems of the young genius were then listened to with attention by S.M. Gorodetsky, and the great Alexander Blok.
In 1915, the poem “Bird Cherry” was written, in which he endows nature and this tree with human qualities. The bird cherry seems to come to life and show its feelings. After being drafted into the war in 1916, Sergei began communicating with a group of new peasant poets.
Because of the released collection, including “Radunitsa,” Yesenin became more widely known. It even reached the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna herself. She often called Yesenin to Tsarskoe Selo so that he could read his works to her and her daughters.
In 1917, a revolution occurred, which was reflected in the works of the genius. He received a “second wind” and, inspired, decided to release a poem in 1917 called “Transfiguration.” It caused great resonance and even criticism, since it contained many slogans of the International. All of them were presented in a completely different way, in the style of the Old Testament.
The perception of the world and commitment to the church also changed. The poet even stated this openly in one of his poems. Then he began to focus on Andrei Bely and began communicating with the poetry group “Scythians”. Works from the late twenties include:
Petrograd book “Dove” (1918).
Second edition “Radunitsa” (1918).
Series of collections of 1918-1920: Transfiguration and Rural Book of Hours.
The period of Imagism began in 1919. It means the use of a large number of images and metaphors. Sergei enlists the support of V.G. Shershenevich and founded his own group, which absorbed the traditions of futurism and the style of Boris Pasternak. An important difference was that the works were of a pop nature and involved open reading in front of the viewer.
This gave the group great fame against the backdrop of bright performances with the use.
Then they wrote:
"Sorokoust" (1920).
Poem "Pugachev" (1921).
Treatise “The Keys of Mary” (1919).
It is also known that in the early twenties Sergei began selling books and rented a shop to sell printed publications. It was located on Bolshaya Nikitskaya. This activity brought him income and distracted him a little from creativity.
After communicating and exchanging opinions and stylistic techniques with A. Mariengof Yesenin, the following were written:
“Confession of a Hooligan” (1921), dedicated to the actress Augusta Miklashevskaya. Seven poems from one cycle were written in her honor.
"The Three-Ridner" (1921).
“I don’t regret, I don’t call, I don’t cry” (1924).
"Poems of a Brawler" (1923).
“Moscow Tavern” (1924).
"Letter to a Woman" (1924).
“Letter to Mother” (1924), which is one of the best lyric poems. It was written before Yesenin’s arrival in his native village and dedicated to his mother.
"Persian Motifs" (1924). In the collection you can see the famous poem “You are my Shagane, Shagane.”
Sergei Yesenin loved to travel
After this, the poet began to travel frequently. His travel geography was not limited to Orenburg and the Urals alone; he even visited Central Asia, Tashkent and even Samarkand. In Urdy, he often visited local establishments (teahouses), traveled around the old city, and made new acquaintances. He was inspired by Uzbek poetry, oriental music, as well as the architecture of local streets.
After the marriage, numerous trips to Europe followed: Italy, France, Germany and other countries. Yesenin even lived in America for several months (1922-1923), after which notes were made with impressions of living in this country. They were published in Izvestia and called “Iron Mirgorod”.
In the mid-twenties, a trip to the Caucasus was also made. There is an assumption that it was in this area that the collection “Red East” was created. It was published in the Caucasus, after which the poem “Message to the Evangelist Demyan” was published in 1925. The period of imagism continued until the genius quarreled with A. B. Mariengof.
V. Mayakovsky was also considered a critic and well-known opponent of Yesenin. But at the same time, they did not show hostility publicly, although they were often pitted against each other. Everything was done with criticism and even respect for each other’s creativity.
Personal life of Sergei Yesenin
Yesenin's common-law wife was Anna Izryadnova. He met her when he worked as an assistant proofreader in a printing house. The result of this marriage was the birth of a son, Yuri. But the marriage did not last long, since already in 1917 Sergei married Zinaida Reich. During this time, they had two children at once - Konstantin and Tatyana. This union also turned out to be fleeting.
The poet entered into an official marriage with Isadora Duncan, who was a professional dancer. This love story was remembered by many, as their relationship was beautiful, romantic and partly public. The woman was a famous dancer in America, which fueled public interest in this marriage.
At the same time, Isadora was older than her husband, but the age difference did not bother them.
Sergei met Duncan in a private workshop in 1921. Then they began to travel together throughout Europe, and also lived for four months in America - the dancer’s homeland. But after returning from abroad, the marriage was dissolved. The next wife was Sofia Tolstaya, who was a relative of the famous classic; the union also broke up in less than a year.
Yesenin’s life was also connected with other women. For example, Galina Benislavskaya was his personal secretary. She was always by his side, partly dedicating her life to this man.
Illness and death
Yesenin had problems with alcohol, which were known not only to his friends, but also to Dzerzhinsky himself. In 1925, the great genius was hospitalized in a paid clinic in Moscow, specializing in psychoneurological disorders. But already on December 21, the treatment was completed or, possibly, interrupted at the request of Sergei himself.
He decided to temporarily move to Leningrad. Before this, he interrupted his work with Gosizdat and withdrew all his funds that were in government accounts. In Leningrad, he lived in a hotel and often communicated with various writers: V. I. Erlich, G. F. Ustinov, N. N. Nikitin.
Death overtook this great poet unexpectedly on December 28, 1928. The circumstances under which Yesenin passed away, as well as the cause of death itself, have not yet been clarified. This happened on December 28, 1925, and the funeral itself took place in Moscow, where the genius’s grave is still located.
On the night of December 28, an almost prophetic farewell poem was written. Therefore, some historians suggest that the genius committed suicide, but this is not a proven fact.
In 2005, the Russian film “Yesenin” was shot, in which Sergei Bezrukov played the main role. Also before this, the series “The Poet” was filmed. Both works are dedicated to the great Russian genius and received positive reviews.
Interesting Facts
Little Sergei was unofficially an orphan for five years, as he was looked after by his maternal grandfather Titov. The woman simply sent the father funds to support his son. My father was working in Moscow at that time.
At the age of five the boy already knew how to read.
At school, Yesenin was given the nickname “the atheist,” since his grandfather once renounced the church craft.
In 1915, military service began, followed by a deferment. Then Sergei again found himself on military lavas, but as a nurse.
Yesenin recalled with a smile 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 fierce dislike of Saturdays - on this “bath” day, the reins of power passed to the grandmother, who tried with all her might to give her beloved grandson a civilized look, to wash, comb his hair and change into clean clothes. .
Serezha’s parents didn’t 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 public” to earn money, leaving her two-year-old son to his grandparents. The male half of this fairly wealthy (by peasant standards) family was distinguished by its violent and hooligan temper - the grandfather supported his 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 mold their tiny nephew into a “real man.” He was taught to swim by being thrown from a boat into the lake at the very depths, and given plenty of water to drink before being pulled back in. At the age of three, the boy was put on a horse without a saddle and the stallion was allowed to gallop, leaving the frightened boy to death by “God’s mercy.” Is it any wonder that as a teenager, Sergei Yesenin was known in his native village as the main mischief-maker, the ringleader of all sorts of dashing pranks? The grandmother “pulled” her grandson in the other direction. She was very religious, believed in the benefits of education, and in her dreams she saw Seryozha as a village teacher. Thanks to her efforts, he was able 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 to do this - the boy was transferred to the last grade only on the second attempt “due to disgusting behavior.”
After receiving his primary education, Yesenin easily entered a special parochial school for teachers. However, your own youthful sword 
you painted a much more attractive future for him 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 and screams...” and “The bird cherry tree is pouring snow...” he wrote at the age of fifteen.
Not being overly modest, 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 set out to conquer the big world. Yesenin moves to Moscow, completely disdaining his career as a teacher, works as a clerk in a butcher shop, actively sends his works to famous poets, and places them in various competitions.
Such a cavalry onslaught bears fruit - the young talent is noticed, they begin to publish and praise him. It seemed that dreams were coming true!
A brilliant start - and a beautiful flight... to nowhere
Compared to many other writers, whose path to the top was strewn with thorns, Yesenin was truly caressed by fate. Or does it seem so 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 wounded on the fronts of the First World War.
At the same time, he enthusiastically takes part in the work of various “near-revolutionary” circles, makes friends with “unreliable” poets and members of the RSDLP (b), for which he himself ends up on the “black list” of the police. Yesenin welcomes the coming revolution, seeing in it the opportunity for renewal and revival of spirituality. One can easily assume that such idealism subsequently became the cause of severe disappointment - the pastoral picture of patriarchal Rus' did not really correspond to the horror that was happening in reality after 1917. 
Objectively, everything was going just fine. Yesenin is on good terms with the “singer of the revolution” Alexander Blok, Gorky speaks wonderfully about him, and Dzerzhinsky personally checks on his well-being. In addition, the poet’s family has been reunited (at least formally); he has two younger sisters, whom he loves reverently and fiercely. In general, contemporaries noted that the easiest way to get Sergei Yesenin among your enemies was to say harsh things about his relatives - he was endlessly devoted to them.
But what was really going on in his soul at that time? They say that the revolution devours its children first. Yesenin was tormented by the fact that expectations and the truth of life, which he observed every day, did not want to coincide. Everything was wrong, unsteady, strange and scary. And now traces of sad thoughts about “where the fate of events is taking us” appear in his poems.
Trying to escape into the metaphorical world of semi-fairy-tale images, the poet takes part in the creation of a new literary movement - imagism, somewhat shocking, 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, and performing in front of a wide variety of audiences. Searching, searching, searching... What? Either peace of mind, or the truth that is not given into his hands.
The poet’s dearly beloved family is also not very happy. By his own sad admission, his 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.
They all just want money!” - he is indignant.
He drinks a lot and increasingly gets involved in various scandals, many of which involve women. Personal life is not going well, whirlwind romances end as quickly as they begin. By 1925, Yesenin already had three official marriages behind him, which turned out to be very fleeting. The first one lasted the longest, with Zinaida Reich, who gave birth to the poet’s daughter and son. Then he had 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 union was concluded with Sofia Tolstoy, but this marriage broke up almost immediately.
It is interesting that many women loved Yesenin passionately and devotedly, but even this did not bring him peace and did not allow him to escape from his “inner demons.” He drank more and more often, was repeatedly detained by the police for hooliganism, sometimes he was ashamed of his antics, sometimes he flaunted them. There were periods of lack of money, relationships with friends deteriorated. It seemed that Sergei was running, running after some elusive dream - and could not catch up with it...
The end of the road - the tragedy in Angleterre
What caused the end? Disputes about this have not stopped for a long time. On the one hand, Yesenin’s civic position 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 “powers of this world” broke through in his speeches, which was usually attributed to alcoholic delirium or a nervous disorder. The poet even spent some time in a psychiatric hospital, but did not get rid of his “freethinking”.
The pendulum of his life was swinging more and more. He drank terribly, practically without leaving his feverish state. At the same time, Yesenin “came to light” in connection with a criminal case initiated under the “execution” article on anti-Semitism. Friends began to fear suicidal moods, which were increasingly taking possession of the poet - he repeatedly made attempts to “leave” and spoke about them even more often 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 gave it to Wolf Ehrlich, one of his few true friends, literally a few hours before his death. He wrote it in the Angleterre Hotel in Leningrad, and that same night he committed suicide by hanging himself with a suitcase strap, throwing it over a heating pipe. There are versions that the suicide was just a staged act to cover up 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