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We know Yesenin from school as a hooligan and drunkard, singing the praises of Blue Rus' and women. But there are those who remain outside the scope of the school curriculum. The brilliant poet always surprised his friends and family with risky actions that lifted him to the top of Olympus and dragged him into the abyss of despair.

From childhood, Yesenin stood out among his peers; he did not particularly long to be a worker, although he dearly loved his homeland and could wander through the fields for hours, enjoying the province. From the age of 5, the poet’s grandfather Titov was involved in his upbringing; he was distinguished by his high intelligence and education. It was he who attracted Yesenin’s love for literature, and his grandmother constantly told folk tales. In such an atmosphere it was impossible not to grow up as a sensual and loving person. Later he was raised by his mother.

He went to study at the Parish School, graduated with honors and went to Moscow to join his father. The father worked in a butcher shop, but the son could not sustain this activity for even six months.

An interesting fact about Yesenin: since childhood, the boy believed that he would become a famous Russian poet. He began writing his first poems as a teenager. And now he told his father that he would earn money by making rhymes, would not go on to study, and would not stay in the butcher shop. Yesenin got a job as a worker in a printing house, closer to the publishing business, and therefore to writing and Russian poets. At this time, he read the poems of A. Blok for the first time and began to consider him his teacher.

Yesenin tried to break into the circles of writers; he met everyone who could help him in some way. As a result, he decided not to wait for “weather by the sea”, found out Blok’s address and came to him, declaring himself as a future famous poet. Blok became interested in such audacity, he met him and demanded to read poetry without lyrical digressions. An interesting fact is that Blok was delighted with Yesenin’s work - this brought the poet into the long-awaited literary circles.

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• Yesenin was married 4 times (not counting his many hobbies).

• Yesenin considered Galina Benislavskaya a friend and companion, and she loved him. After the death of the poet, Benislavskaya shot herself at his grave and was buried near Yesenin.

• Yesenin had two interesting phobias - a terrible fear of the police and a panicky fear of contracting syphilis.

Yesenin biography: interesting facts about Yesenin

• At one time Sergei Yesenin was a vegetarian.
• Isadora Duncan, Yesenin’s most famous woman, saw in him her son, who died in infancy. Duncan did not speak Russian, Yesenin did not speak English, but in passionate quarrels their dialogue consisted of a linguistic mixture of swear words. This amused my friends a lot.

• After Yesenin’s death, Isadora died tragically and absurdly: she got out of a taxi, and her long scarf pinched the car door, the car started moving and suffocated the great dancer.

• Even though Yesenin and Mayakovsky showed disdain for each other in public, in reality each admired the talent of his opponent. An interesting fact in Yesenin’s biography: Mayakovsky once read his poems and exclaimed at the top of his voice: “Damn talented!” But he sternly demanded that everyone in the room never talk about this to anyone.

• Before his death, Yesenin spent a month in a psychiatric clinic, during which time representatives of the Soviet authorities were looking for him under the pretext of ridding Yesenin of alcoholism and sending him to a sanatorium. But they could not find the poet. On December 21, Yesenin left the clinic and settled in Angleterre, where on the 25th he was found dead.

About Yesenin they make you think that the poet partially lived in an imaginary world. He presented some of the altered facts of his biography as real and, it seems, began to believe in them himself.

1. The poet's parents were not entirely peasants. My father worked in a Moscow butcher shop and just came to the village. Mother worked alternately in Ryazan and Moscow. The poet spent his childhood in the village houses of his grandparents. The mother paid her father money to support Sergei, and when they met, he could mistake her for someone else’s woman.
2. In childhood, it was difficult to guess the future traits of the poet and joker. His peers called Yesenin “Seryoga the monk” for his calm character. But at the same time, he remained for the second year in the third grade of the school of his native Konstantinovka. A year later, after graduating from college, Yesenin received a certificate of merit. Already as a child, the future poet loved to read and would stop at nothing if he wanted to get a book from someone that was unfamiliar to him.
3. Sergei Alexandrovich began composing poetry when he was studying at school in the village of Spas-Klepiki not far from Ryazan. The poet’s classmates recalled that even then he declared that he was going to become a writer.

4. Living in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Yesenin often went to literary evenings in village attire and behaved like a peasant guy. This was part of the image that Sergei Alexandrovich created for himself - a peasant poet praising rural Rus'.

5. V.V. Mayakovsky recalled how he first met Yesenin (even before the revolution). The poet from the Ryazan province was dressed like a peasant, and when asked by his interlocutor about his appearance, he began to answer that he was unaccustomed to city clothes. Mayakovsky bet with him that at their next meeting Yesenin would be dressed in a tailcoat and tie. When it happened a few years later, the tactless futurist poet shouted: “Give me your bet, Yesenin! You're wearing a jacket and tie."

6. During the years of the revolution, Yesenin could appear at a literary evening in a white embroidered shirt or cloth caftan, a blue jacket, and wide pants. Or he could wear a narrow, smart jacket, with a fashionable tie, boots and gray leggings.

7. After the revolution, Yesenin created for himself the image of a deserter hiding from recruiters who wanted to send the poet to the front. This image appeared in “Anna Snegina”, as well as in the memoirs of E. German and S. Vinogradskaya. The first wrote that Yesenin escaped a street raid in the yard restroom. The second is that the poet was hiding from conscription in a hut on Novaya Zemlya, where he fought with birds who were trying to eat his supplies. In reality, both stories are fiction, and no one tried to take Yesenin to the front.

8. Yesenin loved to invent a “dream biography” for himself. He told Nadezhda Volpin the story of how he sat on the back stairs of the palace with Grand Duchess Anastasia and read poetry to her. Then the poet admitted to the princess that he was hungry and asked her to bring something. Anastasia brought a pot of sour cream, but was afraid to ask for a second spoon, so they ate one by one. As Nadezhda Volpin wrote, even if it was a fiction, in his imagination it became the truth.

9. In 1918, the poet had a relationship with noblewoman Lydia Kashina. Yesenin did not allow the poor people of Konstantinovka to burn down her house, but Kashina was forced to leave the estate. Little is known about their relationship. In a highly romanticized form, the love story of Kashina and Yesenin was embodied in the poem “Anna Snegina”. The poet added fictitious details: the burning of the estate by the peasants of the village of Kriushi, the death of Anna Snegina’s beloved husband in the war. In fact, since 1916, Kashina lived in a virtual divorce from her husband.

10. Once, when Yesenin was visiting Konstantinovka, the chairman of the village council asked him to write a certain statement. The poet refused, saying that he did not know how to write such a thing. The dissatisfied chairman said that Yesenin was being praised in vain.

11. Yesenin’s last public performance took place in the fall of 1925 at an evening of modern poetry at the House of Press. According to the testimony of those present, the poet looked very bad - sweat was pouring from him, Yesenin read in a hoarse voice with great tension.

12. In the last months of his life, the poet was subject to panic attacks and committed inexplicable antics that frightened his acquaintances. So, he threw his clay bust by the sculptor Konenkov from the balcony. He assured that “Seryozha” (as he called the bust) was stuffy and hot.

The interesting facts about Yesenin presented here do not reflect the fullness of the talent and great poet. In his life there was a place for fatal love, throwing, mistakes and fantasy.

2. in 1909, Sergei Yesenin studied at the parish teacher's school with 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. Today he is still alive, lives in the USA and bears 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 strongly 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 even 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 ...”

Sergey Yesenin (1895 - 1925)

Russian poet, representative of new peasant poetry and lyrics, and in a later period of creativity - imagism. He died at the age of 30, but in these short years he managed to do a lot for Russian literature.

Today we wrote many interesting facts related to the life of the brilliant poet.

Facts from Yesenin's life

Sergei Yesenin was born in the village of Konstantinovo, Kuzminsky volost, Ryazan district, Ryazan province, into a peasant family.

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.

Sergei Yesenin graduated with honors from the Zemstvo School, then from the parochial school. But an interesting fact is that while studying in Konstantinovo he was retained for the second year in the 3rd grade due to bad behavior.

After he graduated from school, he went to work in a butcher shop.

In 1914, Yesenin's poems were first published in the children's magazine Mirok.

In 1915, Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin decided to leave Moscow to conquer Petrograd.

In 1915-1917, Yesenin maintained friendly relations with the poet Leonid Kannegiser, who later killed the chairman of the Petrograd Cheka, Uritsky.

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 1924-1925, Yesenin visited Azerbaijan, published a collection of poems at 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.

In Baku, Yesenin stayed at the New Europe Hotel. He also lived in the village of Mardakan (a suburb of Baku). Currently, his house-museum and memorial plaque are located here.

Yesenin had 2 sisters: Shura and Katya. He was especially kind to Shura, with whom he was 16 years apart. He called her Shurenko and Shurevna.

In 1924, Yesenin decided to break with imagism due to disagreements with A. B. Mariengof. 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.

In 1924, 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.

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.

Yesenin's poems can even be heard in the rap genre.

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. Their marriage was brief, and in August 1923 Yesenin returned to Moscow.

Yesenin began writing poetry for the first time at the age of 5.

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.”

On December 28, 1925, Yesenin was found dead in the Leningrad Angleterre Hotel by his friend G. F. Ustinov and his wife. 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.

Yesenin's name became the most popular among young people in 2016.

Yesenin was hostile to the Bolsheviks.

In 1995, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation issued a commemorative coin (2 rubles, silver, proof) in the series “Outstanding Personalities of Russia”, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of S. A. Yesenin.

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.

Fyodor Andreevich (Yesenin’s grandfather) was strict towards his grandson. From the age of five the child learned to read. Spiritual literature served as a primer. His grandfather instilled in him a love of books and became his guide to the world of poetry. Natalya Evteevna, my grandmother, spoiled me with fairy tales and amazing stories.

At the time of Yesenin’s death, his body was found hanged in the hotel. And to this day it is not clear whether he was killed or committed suicide himself.

It is believed that Yesenin’s alcoholism became the basis for his departure from their lives.

A year after Yesenin’s death, Benislavskaya also shot herself at his grave.

Sergei Yesenin is one of 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.

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.

Sergei Yesenin, who was fond of fist fights from his youth, was, according to the recollections of his contemporaries, a fairly strong fighter who could provide active resistance to the killers who attacked him.

Imagism (from Latin imago - image) is a literary movement in Russian poetry of the 20th century, whose representatives stated that the goal of creativity is to create an image. The main expressive means of imagists is metaphor, often metaphorical chains that compare various elements of two images - direct and figurative. The creative practice of Imagists is characterized by shocking and anarchic motives. The style and general behavior of Imagism was influenced by Russian Futurism. According to some researchers, the name goes back to English Imagism - an English-language poetic school.

In March 1915, Yesenin came to Petrograd, met with Blok, who highly appreciated the “fresh, pure, vociferous,” albeit “verbose” poems of the “talented peasant nugget poet,” helped him, introduced him to writers and publishers.

Moscow State Museum of S. A. Yesenin - was opened on a voluntary basis in 1995 on the 100th anniversary of the poet’s birth. In 1996, the museum received the status of a state cultural institution. House No. 24 on Bolshoy Strochenovsky Lane in Zamoskvorechye was Yesenin’s only official address in Moscow - the poet lived and was registered there from 1911 to 1918.

As of 2013, 611 squares, streets and alleys in Russian cities and villages bear Yesenin’s name. There will be more today.

For many years, the poet’s father, Alexander Nikitich, lived in the house that stood on this site, working as a senior clerk in a butcher shop for the merchant N.V. Krylov. In 1911, it was here, to visit his father, who lived separately from the family, that young Yesenin came from the Ryazan village of Konstantinovo. The poet quickly quarreled with his father and ran away from him, but a year later he registered in this house until 1918.

In 1975, the USSR Ministry of Communications issued an envelope with a portrait of S. A. Yesenin (artist A. Yar-Kravchenko).

Yesenin Park is a park in the Nevsky district of St. Petersburg, bounded by Bolshevikov Avenue, Dybenko Street, Podvoisky Street and Tovarishchesky Avenue, and is part of the Okkervil municipal district. On October 6, 2013, on the occasion of the 118th anniversary of his birth, a monument to Sergei Yesenin was solemnly opened in the park, and the Alley of Writers was founded.

There is a house-museum of Sergei Yesenin and a street in the village. Mardakan (Baku, Azerbaijan).

Yesenin is a great Russian poet, originally from the village of Konstantinovo. Born in 1895 into a simple peasant family. The poet was able to overcome a thorny path, starting as a little boy and ending with the most famous hooligan in Russia.

Yesenin's contemporaries often called him peasant rebel. Yesenin was a passionate poet, and his poems could not be fit into the framework of the literature of that time. At the age of seventeen, the poet already clearly knew his goal - to become the most famous poet in Russia. Interesting facts from Yesenin’s life:

Sergei Yesenin had two sisters Katya and Shura

The poet treated Shurochka especially reverently and in a fatherly way, often affectionately calling Shurenok, Shurevna. The difference between brother and sister was sixteen years. He treated Katya like an adult, asked for advice, in his eyes she was a sensible girl. He loved both sisters very much. In 1921, Yesenin took Ekaterina with him to Moscow, and 3 years later, his younger sister Alexandra.

Was quite erudite

He successfully graduated from college in 1909. He could have graduated from a church school and gone to work as a teacher, but Yesenin did not like the teaching profession at all, so after studying for a little over a year, Yesenin quit his studies and began to educate himself.

Published poem

Sergei Yesenin’s poem “Birch” was published not under his own name, but under the pseudonym “Areston”. It was published in the first issue of the children's magazine Mirok in 1914.

Collection of poems

Two years later, after the first publication of the poem, the first collection “Radunitsa” was published, which contains 33 poems by Sergei Yesenin. Critics greeted the collection kindly, emphasizing a special love for nature and their homeland. There are many songs, the lyrics of which are poems by Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin.

Women of Yesenin

Anna Romanovna Izryadnova. Muscovite Anna Romanovna Izryadnova, who was 4 years older than Yesenin, became the poet’s first wife. We met at the printing house where Sergei Yesenin came to work as a proofreader. A year later, their son Yuri Yesenin was born. But the child did not keep the civil marriage together - they separated.

Yesenin left for Petrograd, but did not return to Anna. But they remained good friends. Yesenin could come to Anna and talk, ask for help. For example, shortly before his death, Anna Izryadnova saw him, came to her to say goodbye and urgently asked her son not to spoil him, but to take care of him and educate him.

Zinaida Nikolaevna Reich. One summer, Yesenin and the poet Ganin decided to move away from the bustle of the big city, and with them their young and beautiful secretary Zinaida Reich. During the trip, Yesenin realized that he needed a woman like Zinaida, and they soon got married. The poet was incredibly jealous and often reproached his beloved for not being her first, although he himself was not particularly faithful.

Yesenin liked to drink. Often, after another drinking session, he liked to make huge scandals with his wife, who, by the way, was pregnant at that moment. The first child was born - daughter Tanechka. Over the next months, the couple had eternal scandals, they separated, then again Zinaida returned to Yesenin. They lived together for some time, but a final break followed. In the winter of 1920, a son was born, Zinaida named him Konstantin. Yesenin did not even consider it necessary to meet with his son. Their meeting occurred spontaneously, entering the train compartment, the poet only exclaimed “Horror, black one! Yesenins are never black.” Officially, the marriage with Reich was dissolved only in 1921, on Yesenin’s initiative.

Isadora Duncan. A dancer from America, who barely knew a few words of Russian, and a poet who knew no English at all, got married in 1922. The marriage was short-lived; in the summer of the following year Yesenin returned to Moscow.

Journalist and literary secretary, with whom Sergei Yesenin lives. Galina probably really loved Yesenin. For the entire five years that they knew each other, she took care of his literary affairs, negotiated with editors and concluded contracts with them. Yesenin considered Galina a faithful friend, and she dreamed of life with him. Galina was still waiting for Yesenin to notice in her a woman whom he could love. Unfortunately, I couldn't wait. In 1925, he married Sofia Tolstoy.

Sofya Andreevna Tolstaya. Marries for the third time the granddaughter of Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy. He was so timid in front of Sophia because of her aristocracy, but he did not love her. It all ended too quickly, Yesenin died, and Sofya Tolstaya devoted her life to collecting and publishing the poet’s poems. As Yesenin’s contemporaries said: “Many people loved him, but there was little love in Sergei’s life.”

A few more facts related to the life of Sergei Yesenin

1. Yesenin and Anna Izryadnova had a son, Georgy, who was accused of counter-revolutionary activities and was shot.
2. Yesenin’s illegitimate son, Alexander Volpin-Yesenin, died on March 16, 2016.
3. Galina Arturovna Benislavskaya, the woman who so passionately dreamed of being Yesenin’s love, shot herself at his grave a year after the poet’s death.
4. The granddaughter of Leo Tolstoy tried to place Yesenin in a psychoneurological clinic for examination and treatment, from where he escaped.
5. In several of his works, Yesenin is very critical of the authorities and Russian leaders, which may have served as a motive for the murder of the poet.
6. The most famous question that torments many people even now: Did Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin hang himself or was he killed? The poet's body was found hanged at the Angleterre Hotel. But many of the poet’s contemporaries did not believe in the suicide version. He was not sad that day and waited with trepidation for the release of his new collection.