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Poets of such stature as Sergei Yesenin can be counted on one hand. At the same time, his poems, written mainly in a melancholy mood, brought him worldwide fame, although Yesenin enjoyed a unique reputation among his contemporaries, because not all of his poems would pass censorship these days.

1. Sergei Yesenin was born in the Ryazan province and graduated from a parochial school in a nearby town. In the third grade, he repeated the year due to bad behavior.
2. The future “peasant poet” wrote his first poem at the age of 8.
3. After completing his studies, Yesenin went to Moscow, where he first worked in a butcher's shop, and then in a printing house. Just 2 years after arriving in the capital, the poet published his poems for the first time.
4. When Yesenin was called to war, his friends helped him get an appointment on a military hospital train under the patronage of the empress.
5. In 1917, Sergei Yesenin fell in love with actress Zinaida Reich, and the couple soon got married. The marriage lasted several years, and then the poet left his pregnant wife, who was also raising their one-and-a-half-year-old daughter. After the divorce, Reich remarried – her husband was director Vsevolod Meyerhold, who adopted and raised Yesenin’s children.
6. In 1922, Yesenin married dancer Isadora Duncan, but the family soon fell apart.
7. The poet's last wife was the granddaughter of Leo Tolstoy - at that time Sofya Tolstaya was in charge of the library of the Writers' Union. This wedding also did not make Yesenin happy, and the couple quickly separated.
8. IN recent years During the life of the poet, newspapers were full of revealing articles about him, which spoke of Yesenin’s drunkenness, fights and rowdy behavior. Unfortunately, most of this information was true.
9. Yesenin was involved in 4 criminal cases of hooliganism; in addition, the writer and his friends were accused of anti-Semitism.
10. Soviet officials were concerned about the poet’s situation - Dzerzhinsky wanted to send him to a sanatorium to cure his drunkenness, but his subordinate was unable to find Yesenin.
11. Only his wife managed to persuade Yesenin to go to a private psychoneurological clinic. Having left there a month later, the poet withdrew all the money from his accounts and went to Leningrad, where he settled in the Angleterre Hotel. He was found dead in the fifth room of this hotel. According to the generally accepted version, he committed suicide under the influence of depression.
12. For some period of his life Yesenin did not eat meat.
13. In 1995, Yesenin was depicted on an Albanian postage stamp.
14. Yesenin’s son from a civil union with Anna Izryadnova was shot in 1937 on false charges: the informer claimed that the young man was preparing an attempt on Stalin’s life.
15. Yesenin and another great poet, Vladimir Mayakovsky, publicly criticized each other and made derogatory remarks about their opponent’s poems, without mincing words. At the same time, it is known that both writers recognized each other’s talent.
16. Yesenin's acquaintances claimed that the poet had two phobias - the fear of contracting syphilis and the fear of police officers.

On the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the poet’s death, an Odessa forensic expert spoke about some little-known facts from the life of Sergei Yesenin, as well as possible reasons his death. At the time of his death, Yesenin was only 30 years old.

Sergei Yesenin committed suicide on December 28, 1925 at the Angleterre Hotel in Leningrad. This is the official version of the poet’s death. However, there is also an unofficial one - Yesenin was killed by GPU officers, and the suicide was staged. The tragic death of the great poet, even after so many years, worries his admirers, literary critics, creativity researchers and forensic experts. A FACTS correspondent spoke with one of them, Odessa forensic expert Leonid Chekanov.

“At first, everyone agreed that Yesenin’s death was not violent, but over time, facts began to emerge that attracted the attention of researchers,” says Leonid Chekanov, Candidate of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Forensic Medicine and Medical Legislation at Odessa National Medical University

— Personally, I first heard about Yesenin as a schoolboy from my father, who saw the poet several times during his lifetime. It was my dad who told me that he didn’t believe in the suicide theory. I must say that at that time I was not able to find Yesenin’s poems or anything about him in any library. During the Khrushchev thaw, the first collections of Yesenin’s poems appeared. Over time, the memoirs of his friends and colleagues began to be published. They stated that Yesenin was an alcoholic, a regular at taverns, a hooligan, and a brawler. As it turned out, many criminal cases were brought against him. By my count, thirteen...

- So much? - Yes! From ordinary fights to accusations of anti-Sovietism. I can say unequivocally: despite many different publications, we know very little about Yesenin’s life. So, in America, where the poet went with his wife Isadora Duncan, an interesting incident occurred. One day Yesenin got into a dispute there: who could swim a short distance faster in a swimming pool at one of the hotels. Moreover, Yesenin did not know with whom he was arguing. As it turned out, his opponent was John Weissmuller, an American swimmer, five-time Olympic champion, also known for performing main role in the American film "Tarzan". Surprisingly, Yesenin, who was already considered an alcoholic, defeated the champion.

Lydia Sotnichenko, a Leningrad pathologist, from whom I learned the basics of the profession, told me about the poet’s physical strength. She told me that, while working at the Obukhov hospital in Leningrad, she witnessed the examination of Yesenin’s body, which was carried out by forensic expert Alexander Gilyarevsky. Yesenin was laid on a white marble table - and everyone saw a man of divine physique, a real Apollo. It was amazing that a chronic alcoholic looked like this on the day of his death. These and other facts made me doubt the imposed image of Yesenin - a drunkard and a degenerate. I became interested in aspects of his biography and criminal cases.

So, a few months before his death, in September 1925, returning from Baku, the poet was traveling on a train with his last wife, Sofia Tolstoy (granddaughter of Leo Tolstoy). Along the way there was a scandal, which was most likely provoked. Participants in the conflict were Estonian diplomat Alfred Roga and psychiatrist Yuri Levit, who were traveling on the train. It is known that Yesenin left his compartment and headed to the restaurant, but on his way stood an employee of the GPU (State Political Directorate, intelligence service in the USSR. - Author), who did not let the poet through. A scandal arose, in which for some reason a foreign citizen of Roga intervened, turning to a psychiatrist who had heard the altercation with a proposal to ascertain Yesenin’s mental state. When the doctor entered the compartment where the poet and his wife were and offered to be examined, this aroused Yesenin’s anger... Both of his “fellow travelers” literally flew across the entire carriage. As a result, a thirteenth criminal case was opened.

Law enforcement officers summoned the poet for interrogation, came to his place of residence to arrest him... Friends and relatives, trying to save Yesenin, decided to hide him in a Moscow psychiatric hospital. After spending some time there, the poet left the hospital and went to Leningrad.

Arriving in Leningrad on December 24, 1925, Yesenin met with his friends: the poet Anatoly Mariengof and the Socialist Revolutionary Yakov Blumkin. The latter is a security officer, an intelligence officer, a friend of literary bohemia. So, Blumkin became the last person to enter Yesenin’s hotel room in Angleterre. After this, no one saw the poet alive. But so far there is no irrefutable evidence of this man’s guilt in Yesenin’s death... The basis for the official death of the poet was the testimony of another friend of Yesenin, the poet Wolf Erlich. Allegedly, it was Erlich who was the last to see Yesenin alive. According to Erlich, when he and his lady Elizaveta Ustinova entered the hotel room, Yesenin was drunk. After drinking a glass of champagne, the friends hugged and said goodbye. True, Erlich soon returned because he had forgotten something. Then they said goodbye again.

Hotels "Angleterre" and "Astoria", Leningrad.1930

Here a curious episode arises related to the famous poem written in blood “Goodbye, my friend, goodbye...” Ehrlich claimed that Yesenin handed him this poem right there, in the hotel room. At the same time, he did not give me the opportunity to read it, citing the fact that this should not be done in the presence of a lady. Yesenin forced Erlich to put the written text in his pocket and read it at home. It turns out that Erlich read the poem after the poet’s death. He later stated that the poet dedicated the verse to him. Although at present there are many doubts about this. The original of this work is kept in the Yesenin Museum, but for some reason has not been studied. What pen and what exactly was it written with? If it really is blood, then who does it belong to?..

And on the morning of December 28, Yesenin was found in a noose. It is interesting that “Angleterre” is a difficult hotel; it was “under the hood” of the GPU. The procedure for registering those staying there was very strict. However, Yesenin was not even registered!

Upon basic reading of the description of the inspection of the room where Yesenin lived, one cannot help but notice that the place where the knot of the rope taken from the suitcase and used in the hanging was fixed is unrealistic. I have never seen anything like this in my practice. Even at the level of instinct, the knot is made in such a way as to withstand the weight...

On one of the documentary photographs, a vertical pipe is marked with a cross - a riser through which hot water. It is to this that the noose-noose is tied. In addition, the height of the ill-fated hotel room is from four to five meters. It is absolutely clear that with a height of 1.68 meters, Yesenin himself could not reach that pipe, even supposedly substituting a one and a half meter stand. However, no object with which he could, even placing a chair on a stand, reach the point and tie a loop, is not listed in the description of the room.

It is also interesting that the Kremlin photographer Nappelbaum was summoned to Angleterre. At that time, the next party congress was going on in Moscow, and then suddenly he came to record the death of the poet. By the way, among the numerous photographs taken in the room at that time, there is no one where Yesenin’s body hangs on a pipe...

In the photograph, which captures the poet’s body lying on a couch, his arm is bent and raised in front of his chest. It seems that with this hand he grabbed the very pipe on which he hanged himself. This does not fit into the presented version of suicide. After death, including after mechanical asphyxia, all muscles soften and the body calms down. Even the expression of horror on the face that was at the moment of death disappears. In the case of Yesenin, we can say that his hand was pushed forward, since he was suspended in a state where rigor mortis had already set in.

“Then the experts didn’t pay attention to this: by accident or on purpose?” — The examination report of the corpse was drawn up by an experienced forensic expert, Professor Alexander Gilyarevsky. I have studied this document. Everything that was indicated in the act was within the competence of the expert. He does not conclude whether it is a homicide or an accident, since this is not the scope of the medical examiner's work. This is a matter of investigation. The expert decides whether there is mechanical asphyxia and so on... However, there is one “but”.

In cases of death resulting from mechanical asphyxia, the examination is quite simple. Particularly when hanging. If attackers hang the corpse of a deceased person, the picture arises exactly the same as with intravital asphyxia! It is impossible to distinguish between postmortem and intravital asphyxia by eye. Gilyarevsky, naturally, knew this well. Moreover, a double strangulation groove formed on the poet’s neck (a trace of compression of the neck with a noose. - Author), between them there was a pinching ridge. In any textbook you can read that when hanging, there should be hemorrhage in the strangulation groove. But in more than half a century of practice, I have never seen such a hemorrhage if there is no pinching cushion. In other words, there must be two grooves, that is, a double rope, between which the skin is pinched. This is where there are hemorrhages that are visible to the naked eye. Gilyarevsky does not describe hemorrhages in the cushion, which is not typical for such an experienced expert.

- What do you think is the reason? — A probable answer to this question can be found in the research of Eduard Khlystalov, senior investigator of the Moscow criminal investigation department. He also dealt with Yesenin’s death and concluded that Gilyarevsky’s examination report differs sharply from others drawn up by him in similar cases.

The investigator looked up archival files that contained Gilyarevsky’s conclusions and came to the conclusion that the report and signature under the examination of Yesenin’s body were fake. There is also the text of an interrogation of an employee of the Angleterre commandant’s office, who testified that Yesenin was brought half-dead into his room and chained to the radiator. Perhaps they tried to hang him from his trouser belt. It turned out that the belt was very short - Yesenin had a rather narrow waist. Then they found a rope from a suitcase.

One of the poet’s post-mortem photographs clearly shows that there were two furrows - on the right, located parallel. When hanging, the furrow always has an oblique upward direction due to gravity. Purely horizontal grooves are a sign of murder, strangulation with a belt.

“So it’s still murder?” — Here it is appropriate to cite the confession of Nikolai Leontyev, a graduate of the Cadet Corps, who served in Trotsky’s security under the command of Blumkin. Many years after the death of the poet, Leontyev, while serving his sentence in the camps, admitted that he was part of the group tasked with neutralizing Yesenin. Thus, when the poet was detained at the train station in Leningrad, it was planned to explain to Yesenin the harmfulness of his conflict with the Soviet regime and offer to work as an informant. The poet reacted violently to this proposal and rushed at the members of the group meeting him. Leontyev fired - the bullet passed under the poet’s right eye, and Blyumkin hit the poet on the head with the handle of the pistol.

By the way, the post-mortem photographs that Nappelbaum took suddenly disappeared. Some time later, Eduard Khlystalov received two posthumous photos of Yesenin by mail. One of them clearly shows a damaged, split skull with a dent, as well as a deformed frontal part of the head. It is unlikely that the bone survived under such circumstances. Meanwhile, in the death certificate we read that the skull bones are intact.

Leontiev mentions that such an unexpected outcome (a fight at the station with all the ensuing consequences) led to the fact that the GPU employees had to fake Yesenin’s suicide. At first they tried to hang his corpse on a pipe using a trouser belt, but it turned out to be short. Then the same belt was tightened around the poet’s neck and his head was leaned against the radiator. It is quite possible that one of the marks on the neck of the dead poet is a mark from a belt...

— The question remains, why did Yesenin need a trip to Leningrad, where he had neither relatives nor close friends?.. — At that time, the Baku party organization was headed by Sergei Kirov, who doted on Yesenin. And Kirov’s secretary was Yesenin’s personal friend. Therefore, it is likely that the poet went there to find protection from persecution.

St. Petersburg writer Viktor Kuznetsov published the book “The Mystery of the Death of Sergei Yesenin,” in which he recreates the real events of that time. Some circumstances of the poet’s death have become known, which cast doubt on the official version of suicide. Writer, journalist, member of the Union of Writers of Russia, literary scholar Viktor Kuznetsov told a FACTS correspondent about his investigation, which lasted almost ten years.

Tell me, why did you doubt Yesenin’s suicide and start your own investigation? — I noticed inconsistencies in the official coverage of the “mystery of Angleterre,” blatant factual and logical contradictions. The fact is that I very well imagine and understand the era of the twenties and thirties of the last century. Because I know it not from textbooks, but from the inside. For I am an “archive rat” studying documents, and therefore I sensed the untruth of our history quite early. I saw that Yesenin’s actions, which were discussed, contradict his personality. Well, of course, there was a feeling that a lot of things didn’t fit together in this story. Some of the researchers even felt ashamed. Another point is that while doing the investigation, I can say that I experienced the poet’s tragedy personally, as if I “passed it through” myself. Without this, it would hardly have been possible to penetrate into the deepest recesses of the crime. I was lucky that it all started in the late eighties, when the “thaw” came and many secret archives, for example the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB, became more accessible.

And you know what's surprising? When the book was already written and published, I read a publication in the Moscow magazine “Miracles and Adventures” in which reserve major Viktor Titarenko wrote that more than twenty years ago in the village of Urgau Khabarovsk Territory I heard the confession of one Gulag graduate, Nikolai Leontyev. He, already an old and sick man, unexpectedly opened up and said: “Vitek, but with this very hand I shot Sergei Yesenin.” Then these words seemed to the officer the ravings of a madman; they simply could not fit into his head. This was so different from the generally accepted view of the sad events that cut short the poet’s life. But still, when he came home, he recorded the confession of the former prisoner.

And, after reading my book, Viktor Titarenko decided to publish the confession that he heard. Moreover, the analysis of Nikolai Leontiev’s biography completely coincides with the facts discussed in my research. By the way, the archive of the manuscript department of the National Public Library in St. Petersburg contains the original photograph of Yesenin, which shows a bullet hole above the right eye and a mark from a blow, apparently with the handle of a revolver, to the forehead.

And yet I can’t help but ask why it was necessary to kill the populist poet Sergei Yesenin. After all, as far as I know, he accepted the revolution and even praised it? - The fact is that the twenties almost mirror our recent times. Both from an economic perspective and in other aspects. Back then, being a patriot and praising Rus' was an act of heroism, and people were shot for it. By the way, Yesenin’s friend, the poet Ganin, was shot precisely for this. And then, sad as it may be, we don’t know the true Yesenin. It’s high time to throw away what is written in textbooks; it’s all rubbish, with rare exceptions. Because until now we imagine him as a kind of refined, golden-haired, curly boy with huge eyes, who wrote about birch trees, about girls and so on. We do not know either his true biography or the depth of his work. But the very existence of Yesenin’s poetry as such - melodious, melodic - was a reproach to the reinforced concrete structures of certain poets of that time. And Gorky, who loved Yesenin as a poet, hated him because of his rank as a “petrel,” wrote to Bukharin that a blow was needed against Yeseninism, a blow precisely at this wing of the new peasant poetry.

There were other reasons that Yesenin’s killer recalled. The fact is that after 1923 Yesenin became a counter-revolutionary. And in a letter to A. Usikov in February 1923, he writes: “If I were alone, if there were no sisters, I would give up on everything and go to Africa or somewhere else. It’s sickening for me, a Russian son, to be a stepson in my own state... I cease to understand which revolution I belonged to. I see only one thing: that it’s neither for February nor for Oktyabrskaya.” He was returning to God. Only last year we proved that he owned a small poem in defense of Jesus Christ against Demyan Bedny. Further, Yesenin “winged” Soviet power at all corners. And Demyan Bedny told Furmanov about this. In addition, Andrei Sobol said in Italy at the beginning of 1925 that “it would never have occurred to anyone in Soviet Russia to cover up the Bolsheviks the way Yesenin did publicly. Anyone who said a tenth of what Yesenin said would have been shot long ago.”

“Thirteen criminal cases were opened against Yesenin, and most of them were under the article “anti-Semitism” - I know that Sergei Yesenin had a reputation as a brawler, criminal cases were even opened against him, accusing him of hooliganism and other offenses. Did this have anything to do with his death?

But what? You have touched on a topic that many literary scholars studiously avoid. After all, thirteen criminal cases were opened against him, and most of them were under the article “anti-Semitism.” It was written by Lenin’s hand in Sverdlov’s “About This” manuscript that such people should be outlawed and shot. And many of the articles under which Yesenin was accused fell precisely under this law. Moreover, the last case that threatened Yesenin with trial also fell under this article.

What kind of court? What was Sergei Yesenin accused of? - Yesenin was returning from Baku by train with his wife Sofia Tolstoy. On the route to the city of Serpukhov, he decided to have lunch in the dining car. But the security officer did not let him in. They quarreled. This quarrel was heard by the diplomatic courier Alfred Roga, a foreigner from Tallinn. Kamenev’s friend, a doctor by profession, Levit, was traveling on the same train. And Roga asked Levit to examine Yesenin for his mental health. Can you imagine this picture?! Yesenin is in a compartment with his wife, the door opens, Levit comes in and says: “Sergei Alexandrovich, do you want to be examined for your mental health?” What is Yesenin doing? This Levit flew to the last carriage. We haven’t written about this anywhere. But there were many publications on this topic, in particular, Rog’s note, explanations of Levit and Yesenin, in American magazines.

Well, then events developed like this. When the train just approached Moscow, Yesenin was immediately arrested. Both Roga and Levit filed a lawsuit against him, including under the article “anti-Semitism.” Sergei Yesenin gave a written undertaking not to leave the place and, on the advice of friends, saying that “crazy people are not judged,” he went to a psychiatric hospital.

Now look... There was no point in going to Leningrad for him. Firstly, he was on trial, and secondly, also because there was no more or less established life there. In Moscow he had his first wife, a son from this marriage and, finally, friends who supported him - they simply rented a corner to him. After all, Yesenin did not have his own home. It sounds incredible, but it's a fact.

So what prompted his arrival in Leningrad? - I think because he wanted to escape. And most likely to Great Britain. Yesenin, under pressure from his relatives, went to a psychiatric hospital and on November 26, 1925, wrote to his friend Pyotr Chagin: “I’ll get rid of some scandals and go abroad. The marble lions there are more beautiful than our live medical dogs.” You know that the lion is an integral attribute of the state symbols of England. Moreover, Yesenin was published there.

And yet, who benefited from the poet’s death? - All roads lead to Trotsky. They had a very complicated relationship. Once, in a drunken company, Yesenin said: “I will not go to Moscow while Leiba Bronstein rules Russia. He shouldn't rule." And GPU sext Gleb Alekseev heard these words and passed them on to their destination. Then, in the poem “Land of Scoundrels” there is a character named Chekistov, he says: “What kind of Jew are you? You are a gentleman from Weimar." And Trotsky at one time lived and studied in Weimar. Well, reading this... who enjoys it? There were many other clashes between them, which gave rise to Trotsky’s hatred of Yesenin. It was Trotsky who rejected Lunacharsky’s petition so that Yesenin would not be tried, because he believed that the hype around Yesenin’s name was needed to show the true face of the Russian anti-Semite.

“Yesenin was not on the lists of those living in Angleterre” - So what happened in Angleterre? - The fact is that Yesenin has never been to this hotel. He became a victim of the political game of Stalin and Trotsky. When Stalin won in December 1925, Trotsky saw this as the machinations of anti-Semites and asked Bukharin to investigate the situation in Moscow through his channels... And yesterday’s leader of the revolution was close to disgrace... Well, he needed to throw out all this on someone negative energy. Of course, on Yesenin.

Why? - Because Yesenin embodied the spirit of the Russian nation. The killer told Major Titarenko that when Yesenin arrived in Leningrad, he and Blumkin, who knew the poet well, since he was a member of the literary bohemia and wrote poems himself, lured Yesenin to the hotel on the very first day to wash out the meeting. And that's where it happened. But this is not the whole truth... Yesenin did not cross the threshold of the hotel. Yesenin is not on the list of people staying at the Angleterre Hotel. And no one among those staying there or the staff saw or heard Sergei Yesenin. Considering the incredible sociability of the poet, this practically could not have happened. Although, on the other hand, this is not surprising if we take into account that everything happened completely differently... Upon his arrival in Leningrad, he was arrested by Trotsky’s secret order. And they were allegedly kept in house No. 8/23 on Mayorova Avenue, where they were interrogated for four days. The point of the interrogations was that they wanted to recruit Yesenin as a secret employee of the GPU. I don’t think that Trotsky gave the order to kill the poet, but that’s what happened... Apparently, Yesenin resisted and pushed Blumkin with force, he fell. Then Leontiev fired... The photograph shows a trace of a bullet wound, and after that Blyumkin hit Yesenin in the forehead with the handle of a revolver.

After the murder, Blyumkin contacted Trotsky from Leningrad and asked what to do with Yesenin’s corpse. He answered that tomorrow his article would appear in the newspaper about how the unbalanced, decadent poet had committed suicide, and everyone would be silent. And so it happened.

What is the consequence? - You know, the police were not involved in this case at all. And the investigation was carried out by a strange organization called the “Active Secret Criminal Investigation Department.” It was led by Peter Gromov. In the early nineties, I met with one of its members - policeman Georgy Evseev, born in 1901. He told me a completely incredible thing, which was later confirmed by Leontyev’s memories. Like, Yesenin was tied to a pipe... from a battery. Moreover, the old policeman swore that this was exactly what happened. From Leontyev’s notes: “They tried to hang Yesenin with his own belt. But Yesenin had a narrow waist, and they were unable to tie him to the steam heating pipe because the belt was too short. They stuck it to the radiator so that they could later represent the impact of the revolver handle as a burn.” And then all the papers that will appear during the investigation were falsified. I checked them thoroughly and proved that, for example, the forensic medical examination report was false. How did this happen? I looked up the actual files of the doctor whose signature was on the document, and saw that he described cases of suicide and in particular those who hanged themselves in a completely different way.

Tell me, how does your version explain the numerous recollections of Yesenin’s friends who expected such a step from the poet? - He had real friends in Moscow, and in Leningrad they described meetings with him and shared memories of Trotsky’s sex. They all signed a “false” act about the discovery of Sergei Yesenin’s body.

Was your point of view about the murder of the poet supported by the Yesenin commission to clarify the actual circumstances of the poet’s death at the Union of Writers of Russia, chaired by Yuri Prokushev? -- No. And now a large article of mine is being prepared for publication in a Moscow magazine, in which a convincing rebuke is given to those who have been profitably exploiting the name and fame of the poet for many years. My research attracted interest in the UK, Germany, Italy and Yugoslavia. The London newspaper The Guardian gave a positive response to the book. And “Book Review” in 1998 called the book an intellectual bestseller.

Interesting facts about Sergei Yesenin will help you get to know this brilliant poet even better. During his short life, he was able to write many poems and poems that became classics during his lifetime.

There are many songs based on Yesenin’s poems that are known and sung by both young and old people. In his works, he paid great attention to nature, human qualities and reflection on the meaning of life.

So, here are the most interesting facts about.

1. When Yesenin was in the third grade, he was left for the second year due to his terrible behavior.
2. After graduation, Sergei went to, where he initially worked in a butcher shop. Later he got a job in a printing house.
3. Yesenin composed his first poem at the age of 8.
4. An interesting fact is that when Sergei Yesenin was called up to war, his comrades helped him get an appointment on military hospital train No. 143 with the permission of his wife, Alexandra Fedorovna.
5. In 1917, Yesenin married the artist Zinaida Reich. But a few years later he decided to leave his pregnant wife. In addition, the poet also left behind a little daughter.
6. At the age of 27, Yesenin married the American dancer Isadora Duncan. This family union also soon disbanded.
7. The third and last wife of Sergei Yesenin was his granddaughter, Sofya Andreevna. Alas, this marriage also failed.
8. According to Sardanovsky and the letters of the poet himself, Sergei Alexandrovich adhered to vegetarianism.
9. Yesenin repeatedly violated the law and participated in various fights. Thus, he was a defendant in four criminal cases of hooliganism.
10. An interesting fact is that the Soviet leadership wanted to help him get rid of alcohol addiction. Felix Dzerzhinsky tried to get Yesenin into a sanatorium for treatment, but neither he nor his assistants could find the wild poet.
11. Sergei Yesenin and his friends were accused of anti-Semitism.
12. Did you know that only his wife managed to persuade Yesenin to go to a psychoneurological hospital. A month after treatment, he left for Leningrad, renting a room at the Angleterre Hotel. It was in this place that Sergei Yesenin was found hanged. According to official version he committed suicide due to depression.
13. The poet’s close friends said that Yesenin’s greatest fear was getting syphilis. He was also afraid of meetings with police officers.
14. In 1995, a stamp with the image of Sergei Yesenin was published in Albania.
15. An interesting fact is that, despite the fact that Yesenin and he often entered into open conflicts, resorting to mutual insults, both poets recognized each other’s talent.
16. The situation today in

Sergei Yesenin is a wonderful Russian poet, who in the early period of his creativity was one of the key figures of the new peasant lyricism, and in the later period of imagism. Interesting facts about Yesenin prove that it is unthinkable to impose any restrictions or boundaries on such a large-scale personality. He was out literary trends the beginning of the last century. His lyrics are the Russian soul wide open, passionate, rebellious and incredibly responsive.

Interesting facts from the life and work of Yesenin

• Not much is known about Yesenin’s childhood and youth. One thing is certain that fate invited the famous poet to choose a different path - to devote his life to pedagogy. In 1909, Sergei Yesenin’s studies at the Konstantinovsky Zemstvo School came to an end. Excellent grades allowed him to enter the church teacher's school. But after a year and a half, he left the rather boring school walls, because he could not imagine himself in the role of a teacher.
• The poet's first muse was Anna Izryadnova. They met when Sergei, an ardent, self-confident young man of seventeen, came to conquer the capital. He had many plans and one goal - to become the brightest “servant of the muses” in vast Russia. This marriage was not happy. His wife and little son weighed heavily on Yesenin. Very soon he left them and went in search of glory to Petrograd.
• In 1918, a new publishing house appeared in Moscow - “The Labor Artel of Word Artists”.

  It was organized by aspiring poets of Soviet Russia - Lev Povitsky, Andrei Bely, Pyotr Oreshin, Sergei Klychkov and Sergei Yesenin. For successful work, there was an urgent need for one thing - paper. At that difficult time, she was strictly registered, but Yesenin promised to get her. Having changed into simple clothes and combed his hair in a peasant style, he went straight to the Presidium of the Moscow Council. Paper was allocated exclusively for “peasant poets.”

• There was a lot in Yesenin’s life beautiful women. The famous actress Zinaida Reich was one of them. She was so beautiful and charming that the poet could not resist and asked for her hand in 1917. In this marriage, Sergei Alexandrovich had two children - Tatyana and Konstantin. Three years later, the couple separated due to the endless betrayals of the head of the family. The wonderful poem “Letter to a Woman” is dedicated specifically to the beautiful Zinaida.
• The poet also had many fears. One of the unknown to the general public is the horror of the police. Wolf Erlich recalled that one day he and Sergei were walking along the street, at the end of which the figure of a law enforcement officer appeared. The poet suddenly turned pale, then turned yellow, breathing heavily, asking him to leave quickly and not tell anyone about the panic that suddenly gripped him.
• In the 20s, Yesenin’s personal life was chaotic and somewhat disheveled. He drank a lot, often got involved in ugly stories and endless fights. There were also random connections. But fate gave him a helping hand in the person of Isadora Duncan, a brilliant American dancer. It was love at first sight, which overcame many conventions. She was eighteen years older than him and did not speak Russian, and he did not speak English. But they got married, combining their surnames and their great feelings into one whole. From now on, they both signed Duncan-Yesenin.
• However, the marriage with Isadora Duncan was not entirely successful. They often quarreled, made scandals, separated and passionately came together again. The final break was inevitable. In the poem “Rash, harmonica!

  Boredom...Boredom...” Yesenin conveyed what was happening in his soul during that period. Two years after the poet's tragic death, Duncan died, strangling herself with her own scarf.

• WITH short biography Students are introduced to Yesenin’s work in the 5th grade. There is a common misconception about supposed mutual hatred between Yesenin and Mayakovsky. Indeed, the poets often and passionately argued and reproached each other. Often it came to open clashes during public speeches. But this did not mean that they did not recognize each other's talent. On the contrary, they praised and admired him. Once even Mayakovsky said that “darling Yesenin” was “terribly talented,” and asked not to tell him these words.
• The poet’s last wife was Sophia Tolstaya, the granddaughter of the great Russian writer. She strove to be the ideal companion of the famous poet: she surrounded him with care, attention and helped him with the publication of his own collected works. But she never became his muse. He did not love her, and at the same time, her aristocratic origin caused him confusion and timidity. And yet, the unkind heart of Sophia had the misfortune of remaining the widow of a shocking poet.
• The body of the dead Yesenin was found on December 25, 1925 in a room at the Angleterre Hotel. It is interesting to note that the day before he wrote in blood the poem “Goodbye, my friend, goodbye...”. There were two versions of his tragic departure. According to the official one, he committed suicide, writing a farewell poem and message. According to another, it was a political murder, and the poem was written in blood, because there was no ink in the room.

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We know Yesenin from school as a hooligan and drunkard, praising Blue Rus' and women. But there are interesting facts about Yesenin that 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.

Since 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 natural splendor. From the age of 5, the poet was raised by his grandfather Titov; he was distinguished by his high intelligence and education. It was he who instilled in Yesenin a passionate love of literature, and his grandmother constantly told folk tales, sang ditties and taught her grandson interesting sayings and parables. 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 visit his father. The father worked in a butcher shop, but the son could not sustain this activity for even six months. He declared himself a future great Russian poet and set off to conquer his fatherland. First - service, then - readings with the Empress, later - final fame throughout the country.

• The poet’s main idol was A. Blok. It was this writer who assessed Yesenin’s first poems from the point of view of professionalism. The young poet also amused Blok with his persistence and rustic manners.

• 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.

• 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 abusive 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 tell anyone about it.