Sergei Yesenin
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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 |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Occupation | Lyrical poet |
| Movement | Imaginism |
| Spouse(s) | Anna Izryadnova (1913–16) 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. He spent most of his childhood with his grandparents, who essentially raised him. He began to write poetry at the age of nine.
In 1912, Yesenin moved to Moscow, where he supported himself working as a proofreader in a printing company. The following year he enrolled in Moscow Charnyavsky University as an external student and studied there for a year and a half. His early poetry was inspired by Russian folklore. In 1915, he moved to Petrograd, where he became acquainted with fellow-poets Alexander Blok, Sergey Gorodetsky, Nikolai Klyuev and Andrei Bely and became well known in literary circles. Blok was especially helpful in promoting Yesenin's early career as a poet. Yesenin said that Bely gave him the meaning of form while Blok and Klyuev taught him lyricism.
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