Sergei Esenin
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Sergei Yesenin, 1922
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Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin 3 October 1895 Konstantinovo, Ryazan Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 28 December 1925 (aged 30) Leningrad, Soviet Union |
| Resting place | Vagankovo Cemetery, Moscow |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Occupation | Lyrical poet |
| Movement | Imaginism |
| Spouse(s) | Anna Izryadnova (1913–1916) Zinaida Reich (1917–1921) Isadora Duncan (1922–1925) Sophia Tolstaya (1925; his death) |
Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin (/jəˈseɪnɪn/; sometimes spelled as Esenin; Russian: Серге́й Алекса́ндрович Есе́нин; IPA: [sʲɪrˈgʲej ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ jɪˈsʲenʲɪn]; 3 October [O.S. 21 September] 1895 – 28 December 1925) was a Russian lyric poet. He is one of the most popular and well-known Russian poets of the 20th century.
Sergei Yesenin was born in Konstantinovo in Ryazan Governorate of the Russian Empire to a peasant family. His father was Alexander Nikitich Yesenin (1873—1931), his mother Tatyana Fyodorovna (nee Titova, 1875—1955).
Both his parents spent most of their time looking for work, father in Moscow, mother in Ryazan, so at age two Sergei was moved to the nearby village Matovo, to join Fyodor Alexeyevich and Natalya Yevtikhiyevna Titovs, his relatively well-off maternal grandparents, who essentially raised him.
The Titovs had three grown-up sons, and it was them who were Yesenin's early years' companions. "My uncles taught me horse-riding and swimming, one of them... even employed me as hound-dog, when going out to the ponds hunting ducks," he later remembered. He started to read aged five, and at nine began to write poetry, inspired originally by chastushkas and folklore, provided mostly by the grandmother whom he also remembered as a highly religious woman who used to take him to every single monastery she’d choose to visit. He had two younger sisters, Yekaterina (1905—1977), and Alexandra (1911—1981).
1904 году Yesenin joined the Konstantinovo zemstvo school. In 1909 he graduated it with honorary certificate, and went to study in the local secondary parochial school in Spas-Klepiki. From 1910 onwards he started to write poetry systematically; eight poems dated that year were later included into his 1925 Collected Works. In all, Yesenin wrote around thirty poems during his school years. He compiled them into what was supposed to be his first book which he titled "Bolnye Dumy" (Sick Thoughts) and tried to publish it in 1912 in Ryazan, but failed.
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