In the 92nd year, the son of the poet Sergei Yesenin, Alexander Yesenin-Volpin, passed away. Having inherited the rebellious spirit of his parents, he lived a long and colorful life. "VM" tells about his fate and recalls other children of the poet.
A year ago it was shown on TV: in a pale, thin old man it was impossible to recognize the traits of a golden-haired poet; and it was also difficult to recognize a well-known dissident. He was pestered with questions about his father; The old man clearly wanted to sleep. And suddenly - a glimpse, a joke, a sharp word. Alexander Sergeevich seemed to light up ... And it immediately became clear what he was like. Amazing, bright ... He passed away quite recently - on March 16th.
different fates
Sergei Yesenin had novels - countless. And four children. The eldest son, Georgy Izryadnov (from Anna Izryadnova), after school entered the aviation technical school, then joined the army, served in the Far East. In 1937 he was shot as a terrorist - he had just turned 22 years old.
From Zinaida Reich, Sergei Yesenin had a son Konstantin (1920 - 1986) and a daughter Tatyana (1918 - 1992). They, too, had a sip of grief. Konstantin went through the entire Great Patriotic War, earned three Orders of the Red Star. In civilian life, he was engaged in sports journalism. Tatyana also became a journalist, the author of books about her parents and Meyerhold (Tatyana saved Meyerhold's archive by hiding it in her country house).
Multifaceted Volpin
O fellow citizens, cows and bulls!
What have the Bolsheviks brought you to ...
... But a terrible war will still begin,
And other times will knock...
These lines belong to the pen of Alexander Yesenin-Volpin. Man, of course, multifaceted. Talented - on the verge of insanity. He was a famous mathematician, human rights activist, and dissident.
And also a poet. Although for us, first of all, Alexander Sergeevich Volpin is the son of the great Russian poet Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin.
There, in the north, the girl too ...
These famous lines from "Shagane" - "There, in the north, there is a girl too. She looks a lot like you. Maybe he is thinking about me…” are dedicated to Nadezhda Volpin, a poetess. Sergei Yesenin had a vivid romance with her, which never developed into marriage.
She was too rebellious, Nadezhda. The poet met her in a cafe on Tverskaya in 1919. It was the second anniversary of the October Revolution; in honor of the holiday date, the poets gathered to read poetry. And Sergey suddenly “turned on the star”, as they would say now. He said: “I don’t want to speak!” Then a fan of his work, the beautiful Nadenka Volpin, approached him. And she asked me to read poetry! Sergey answered: “For you - with pleasure!” He read poetry, was successful ... They began to meet, but at first Nadezhda did not respond to Yesenin's advances. All Moscow gossiped about his Don Juan list. And Nadezhda was a girl of strict rules. He gave her a book with an ambiguous signature: "Nadezhda Volpin with hope." And she later wrote in her memoirs about how he besieged her for three years. She gave herself to Yesenin in the spring of 1922, about which Yesenin told in a drunken company. “I crushed this peach!” — boasted.
And she answered: “It won’t take long to crush a peach, and you will gnaw the bone with your teeth!” "Ruffy!" Yesenin laughed. That was the kind of relationship it was. Love-hate. They quarreled over poetry.
Yesenin even considered marrying the recalcitrant Nadenka, but demanded that she leave poetry. When she confessed to him that she was pregnant, Sergei did not show joy. He already had children ... Proud Volpin left for Leningrad and gave birth to a boy on May 12, 1924. Yesenin saw him only once. Hope severed all relations with the poet.
Dissident
The son of Yesenin and Volpin fully inherited the rebellious spirit of his parents. In 1949, he became a candidate of mathematical sciences, at the same time he was arrested for the first time for writing "anti-Soviet poems" and sent for compulsory treatment in a psychiatric clinic ... The psychiatric hospital was replaced by exile in Karaganda. But it was impossible to break him. When he returned, he began to engage in human rights activities. And again he was treated. And so - more than ten years. Then - exile.
In 1972, Volpin emigrated to the United States, where he worked at the University of Buffalo, and then in Boston. He professed skepticism: he denied all theories that could not be confirmed scientifically. Because Volpin was a brilliant mathematician. And he didn't take anything for granted. Dissident Vladimir Bukovsky once said that the disease from which Volpin was treated all his life is called pathological truthfulness. Alexander Sergeevich Volpin was going to live 120 years. But he died at the age of 92. God bless, as they say, to everyone ...
“Finished Russian poet”, according to the apt expression of M. Gorky, - Sergey Yesenin - a subtle master, lyricist, devoted all his work to his homeland - Russia.
The quiz "Yesenin's Creativity" contains 12 questions. All questions have been answered.
Quiz Maker: Iris Revue
1. What lines belong to Yesenin's pen?
“Hours and days are running ... still the lot of exile
I, like a prisoner in a dungeon, weighs me down,
But I'm already dreaming of a blissful moment of goodbye,
And a gentle voice repeats about joys ... "
The sun sadly sank into the clouds
The sad aspen does not tremble,
In a muddy puddle the sky is reflected,
And on everything there is a familiar twist ... "
"Again I see the familiar precipice
With red clay and willow branches,
Dreaming over the lake red oats,
It smells of chamomile and honey from wasps" +
2. What tree has become the national poetic symbol of Russia, thanks to the poet Yesenin?
Willow
bird cherry
Birch +
3. What is the main element of Yesenin's work?
Nature +
Philosophy
Caucasus
4. What was the name of Yesenin's first poetry collection?
"Radunitsa" +
"Treyadnitsa"
"Transformation"
5. Who is the author of these words?
“Sergey Yesenin is not so much a person as an organ created by nature exclusively for poetry, to express the inexhaustible“ sadness of the fields ”, love for all living things in the world and mercy.”
Answer: A.M. Bitter
6. In what periods of time was Yesenin a member of the Imagist group?
In 1919–1923 +
In 1916-1918
In 1920-1923
7. What are the poet's favorite trees?
Rowan, linden, bird cherry +
Willow, maple, pine
Oak, alder, spruce
8. In which periodical were Yesenin's poems first published?
Answer: In 1914, Yesenin's poem was first published in the children's magazine Mirok.
9. Was Yesenin inherent in "anthropomorphism" (endowing animals, objects, phenomena with human qualities)
Answer: Yesenin developed his own, special, Yesenin's "anthropomorphism":
10. Give Yesenin's poems, in the title of which there is the word "Rus"?
Answer:"Oh, Russia, flap your wings"
"Soviet Russia"
"Goy you, Russia, my dear"
"Russia leaving"
11. Yesenin met the revolution with enthusiasm. What works imbued with a joyful foreboding of the “transformation” of life appear in his works during this period?
Answer:"Jordan Dove"
"Inonia"
"Heavenly Drummer"
12. What are the main directions of Yesenin's lyrics?
Answer: nature, Motherland, village; folklore, universal, philosophical, gospel motifs
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1. Where was Sergei Yesenin from?
2. What lines belong to Yesenin's pen?
* “Hours and days are running ... still the lot of exile
I, like a prisoner in a dungeon, weighs me down,
But I'm already dreaming of a blissful moment of goodbye,
And a gentle voice repeats about joys ... "
* “The sun sadly sank into the clouds
The sad aspen does not tremble,
In a muddy puddle the sky is reflected,
And on everything there is a familiar twist ... "
* "Again I see the familiar cliff
With red clay and willow branches,
Dreaming over the lake red oats,
It smells of chamomile and honey from wasps"
4. The meeting with which poet determined the work of the poet?
5. Which famous dancer was Yesenin's muse?
6. What tree has become the national poetic symbol of Russia, thanks to the poet Yesenin?
Willow
bird cherry
Birch
7. What is the main element of Yesenin's work?
Nature
Philosophy
Caucasus
8. What was the name of Yesenin's first poetry collection?
"Radunitsa"
"Treyadnitsa"
"Transformation"
9. Who is the author of these words?
“Sergey Yesenin is not so much a person as an organ created by nature exclusively for poetry, to express the inexhaustible“ sadness of the fields ”, love for all living things in the world and mercy.”
10. What poem is this passage from:
11. In what periods of time was Yesenin a member of the Imagist group?In 1919-1923
In 1916-1918
In 1920-1923
12. What are the poet's favorite trees?
Rowan, linden, bird cherry
Willow, maple, pine
Oak, alder, spruce
13. In which periodical were Yesenin's poems first published?
14. What is the name of the poem in which Yesenin talks about the bereavement of the dog of his puppies?
15. Continue the line:
"I do not regret, do not call, do not cry,
All will pass, …."
16. Give Yesenin's poems, the title of which contains the word "Rus"?
17. Yesenin met the revolution with enthusiasm. What works imbued with a joyful foreboding of the “transformation” of life appear in his works during this period?18. What are the main directions of Yesenin's lyrics?
19. In which poem does Yesenin call himself a brawler and a charlatan?
20. Where does this passage come from?
"Do you remember,
Of course, you all remember
How I stood
Approaching the wall
You excitedly walked around the room
And something sharp
They threw it in my face."
21. What was the name of the second wife of the poet?
22. From which poem is this passage:
“In this life, dying is not new,
But to live, of course, is not newer.
23. Who called Sergei Yesenin "Finished Russian poet"?The year 2015 has been declared the Year of Literature in our country. During this period, many different events will be held throughout Russia. One of the largest events will be the celebration of the 120th anniversary of the famous and beloved Russian poet S.A. Yesenin, which will be celebrated on October 3 (September 21) of this year. Preparations for the celebrations in the cultural institutions of the capital have already begun, and we, in turn, invite you to recall the history of Yesenin's Moscow. In total, there are about 300 addresses in the capital where the poet lived, performed or visited. In our article we will talk about some of them related to the main events of Yesenin's life.
The best thing I've seen in this world is still Moscow...
S.A. Yesenin
The first and only official address of Sergei Yesenin in Moscow was house number 24 in Bolshoi Strochenovsky Lane. Here in 1912 the young man came to his father, who for almost three decades served as a clerk in the butcher's shop of the merchant Krylov. At the beginning of the 20th century, Krylov was the owner of four buildings. In a two-story wooden house, built according to the project of architect M. Medvedev in 1891, there was a "Horm of lonely clerks in the possession of a merchant N. V. Krylov." Here on the first floor, in apartment No. 6, consisting of 3 rooms, the father of the future poet lived for many years. At first, Alexander Nikitich attached his son to the shop as a clerk, but such a career turned out to be unattractive for the beginning poet, and after a short time, Sergei quit his job. After some time, he also left his father's house, although until 1918, house number 24 in Bolshoy Strochenovsky Lane was officially considered Yesenin's place of residence.
In 1995, on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the poet, a museum was opened in the house where Yesenin's acquaintance with Moscow began. Today, exhibits are presented covering all periods of Yesenin's life, from early youth to tragic death, but most of the exposition is devoted to the Moscow segment of his life and work. Of all the poets of the Silver Age, Sergei Yesenin was most closely associated with Moscow - almost a third of his life passed here, the first poem was printed and most of the works were created.
For the young talented Yesenin, poetry and a butcher's shop turned out to be incompatible, and the young man began to look for a job that was more appropriate for the position of an aspiring poet. For a short time he worked in a bookstore at, then got a job at the printing house of the I.D. Sytin Partnership at. Here he expected to print his poems, and even the meager salary of the proofreader's sub-reader did not frighten the young man. The employees of the proofreading department did not immediately discern a talent in him. The short, proud, golden-haired boy, who was dubbed the "verbok cherub" in the printing house, found understanding only with Anna Izryadnova. Yesenin read his poems to her, on weekends they attended classes together at Shanyavsky University (the university was located at 6, since 1991 the building has been occupied by the Russian State Humanitarian University), listened to lectures on poetry. At the beginning of 1914, young people entered into a civil marriage and rented an apartment near. In December, the young couple had a son, Yuri. Yesenin dedicated a small poem to his firstborn (not intended for publication). By birth, the son was already considered a Muscovite, which the Ryazan guy proudly writes about, who recently began to conquer Moscow:
Be Yuri, Muscovite.
Live, in the forest, aukay.
And you will see your dream in reality.
Long ago your namesake Yuri Dolgoruky
I founded Moscow as a gift to you.
In September 1914, Yesenin took the place of a proofreader at the Chernyshev-Kobelkov printing house in (house number 10). By that time he had already begun to publish. The famous poem "Birch", published in January 1914 in the children's magazine "Mirok", became Yesenin's first work to be published. Then his poems began to appear in other Moscow newspapers and magazines, but this did not seem enough. Shortly before the birth of his son, Yesenin decided to quit his job and devote himself only to poetry. Creativity was hampered not only by work: relations in the family did not develop. Dissatisfied with the literary opportunities in Moscow, leaving his wife and son, in March 1915 the young poet decided to move to Petrograd. He returned to Moscow three years later, but never returned to Anna Izryadnova. After the break, the spouses maintained friendly relations, Yesenin sometimes helped and visited Anna Romanovna in her apartment on.
In 1994, in a former communal apartment at Sivtsev Vrazhek, house number 44, apt. 14, where Izryadnova lived with her son Yuri, People's Artist of Russia S.P. Nikonenko created (the Museum-apartment of A.R. Izryadnova). Yesenin's first common-law wife lived in this apartment for more than 20 years, his son grew up and was arrested here (shot in 1937), his mother came here in the 1930s, and, finally, the poet himself visited here more than once. Before his fateful departure to Leningrad in 1925, as if anticipating trouble, Sergei Yesenin burned his drafts in the apartment of his ex-wife. Now in the Yesenin Center, along with an exhibition dedicated to the life and work of S. Yesenin, in a separate room there is an exposition telling about A.R. Izryadnova.
On July 30, 1917, S. Yesenin married Zinaida Reich. At first, the young lived in Petrograd in Zinaida's apartment, but family life did not work out again, and the very spiritual atmosphere of the city on the Neva was alien to the young poet. In 1918, Yesenin decided to return to Moscow, and Zinaida Reich, pregnant with her daughter Tatyana, went to her parents in Orel.
23-year-old Yesenin returned to Moscow as a well-known poet. But it made his life no easier than the rest. The young fashionable poet first settled in the Lux Hotel, now (house number 10), then moved to house number 19. From time to time, he lived either in the workshop of the sculptor Sergei Konenkov on, or with other friends and acquaintances - who had to.
At this time, Yesenin became close friends with Anatoly Mariengof. Since 1919, friends began to rent apartments together and live "one house, one money." Young people settled in house number 3 (now Petrovsky lane, house 5, building 9) - the former house of the merchant Alexei Bakhrushin, a well-known philanthropist and collector of theatrical antiquities, next to (currently). In apartment No. 46, the poets occupied three rooms, one of which was a former bathroom. According to the memoirs of A. Mariengof, the best place in the apartment: "We covered the bath with a mattress - a bed; a washbasin with boards - a desk; a column for warming water was heated with books. The heat from the column inspired lyrics ... "
At that time, almost the entire creative elite of the Silver Age gathered at the apartment of friends.
In memory of those years, a memorial plaque with a bas-relief of the poet and the inscription: "The outstanding Soviet poet Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin lived and worked in this house from 1918 to 1923" was installed on the building.
Under the influence of Mariengof, one of the founders and theorists of Imagism (a literary movement in which the image comes to the fore, and form and content come down to it), Yesenin also became interested in the fashion trend. At that time, writers themselves opened shops and sold their own books and autographs. The Imagist poets also had a bookstore. In the "Shop of Imaginists" at (house No. 15), Yesenin, smartly dressed, sometimes stood behind the counter himself. His poems sold very quickly.
Another project of the Imagists was the literary cafe "Stall of Pegasus" at 37. Previously, it was called "Bom" and belonged to the popular eccentric clown M. Stanevsky, who works in the famous duet "Bim-Bom" (Radunsky-Stanevsky). In 1919 it was occupied by Imagist poets. Theatrical artist Georgy Yakulov, who designed the establishment, placed an unusual sign over the entrance - in the middle there was a pegasus in the clouds, and the name of the cafe "floated" around in a flying intricate font. Inside, portraits of the Imagists were painted in bright yellow paint on ultramarine walls. A quote was placed under the portrait of S. Yesenin:
Cut the wise gardener - autumn
The head of my yellow leaf.
The portrait of A. Mariengof was decorated with a quatrain:
In the sun with a fist bam,
And you are there - every dog hair is a flea,
Crawling, picking up the pieces
Broken enema.
The bohemian public of that time gathered in the cafe-club - poets, writers, artists, artists. There were also semi-criminal and criminal elements, and "undercut bourgeois". Known throughout the capital for his scandalous antics, Yesenin once led one visitor out of a cafe literally by the nose. The poet did not like that the man spoke louder than the speaker Rurik Ivnev. Without thinking twice, Yesenin took him by the nose, led him through the entire hall and put him out the door. Oddly enough, but after this incident, the number of visitors to the cafe only increased.
It is worth saying that quite close to the Pegasus Stall, there was a cafe of futurists - opponents of the Imagists.
In the 1930s, Tverskaya Street was reconstructed. And now it is only approximately possible to designate the place where the Pegasus Stable cafe was located - in the area of \u200b\u200bhouse No. 17.
For several years, Yesenin and Mariengof were inseparable. They traveled together, performed at various parties, made friends with the same people.
On October 3, 1921, on the 26th birthday of Sergei Yesenin, a cheerful company gathered at the famous theater artist Georges Yakulov. His workshop was located in apartment No. 38 at 10. This house is now better known thanks to another apartment, which, with a light hand, began to be called "bad". The world famous American dancer Isadora Duncan performed at the party. According to those present, the ballerina fell in love with Yesenin at first sight. By that time, Yesenin and Zinaida Reich already had two children, but, like the first marriage, this one did not work out. On the evening of meeting Isadora Duncan, the poet and the great "sandal" fled from Bolshaya Sadovaya to Isadora in a mansion on. They say that a rather short journey from Bolshaya Sadovaya to Prechistenka took much more time than usual. The cab driver, who fell asleep, drove around three times, to which Yesenin jokingly remarked that the driver married them like that. But officially they became husband and wife in the spring of 1922. Isadora Duncan had to go abroad on tour, she could not go without Yesenin. In order not to create unnecessary problems on the trip, it was necessary to get married. Yesenin easily agreed to the marriage.
In the latter, at the beginning of the last century, there was a kind of club of writers under the leadership of the association of proletarian writers, and in the basement there was a restaurant beloved by the writing fraternity for the discounts provided to them. (In the famous novel by M.A. Bulgakov "The Master and Margarita" "Herzen's House" is displayed as "Griboyedov's House"). In this house, where Yesenin read "Persian Motifs" and "Anna Snegina", with the participation of Sofya Andreevna Tolstaya-Yesenina, the first museum of the famous poet was organized. But he did not last long. After the ban on Yesenin's poetry, the museum was closed. Currently, the "House of Herzen" is occupied by the Literary Institute. Gorky. Sadly, no material evidence relating to Yesenin has been preserved here.
At the end of this year, the 90th anniversary of the death of Sergei Yesenin will be celebrated. The poet lived only 30 years. But this short, romantic, reckless and bright life left a deep mark on Russian poetry. For almost a century, Yesenin's poems have been loved in Russia. At the same time, not only his work is of interest, but also everything that the poet lived with and touched in some way.
For Moscow, Yesenin is the dearest and closest poet of those changeable and exciting years of the beginning of the 20th century, which were called the Silver Age of Russian poetry and culture. And for the poet himself, this city was both the “Love Capital”, and the “Moscow Tavern”, and a living organism, full of human feelings and contradictions, at the same time understandable and mysterious. Yesenin loved Moscow and considered it to be his native city. He was going to die in Moscow...
17-year-old Yesenin, young and attractive, very bright (according to the recollections of close friends), arrived in Moscow after graduating from a teacher's school, in 1912. His father worked for many years as a clerk in a butcher's shop and hoped to arrange his son in a "warm place". Yesenin Sr. rented an apartment at Big Strochenovsky lane, 24. Sergey lived here for almost a year, while he worked in a shop with his father. This house became the place of his only Moscow registration from 1912 to 1918. The building has been preserved and now houses : small, chamber and, in its own way, very cozy - one memorial room.
The young poet, romantic and dreaming of literary glory, was alien to work at the meat counter, and, to the disappointment of his father, he leaves both the shop and the apartment. Moscow friends in the Surikov musical and literary circle found him a suitable job as a proofreader in Printing houses Sytin on Pyatnitskaya, 71/5. Soon in the children's magazine "Mirok", published by Sytin, the first publication of the poet appeared: the poem "Birch". The building of the printing house has also been preserved and, despite the modern decoration and completion of the upper floor, it looks almost the same as at the beginning of the 20th century. AT Chernyshevsky lane, 4/2 located Meyer's house, in the wing of which a branch of the Museum of S. A. Yesenin was opened. According to the memoirs of a contemporary, it used to be a literary cafe of the Surikov literary circle, which the poet visited.
In 1913, Yesenin became a student of the historical and philosophical Moscow City People's University named after A. L. Shanyavsky on the Miusskaya Square, 6. Currently, this is the premises of the Russian State University for the Humanities. In Teply Lane, 20 (now - Timur Frunze Street) lived the family of the common-law wife of Sergei Yesenin, an employee of the same Sytin printing house Anna Izryadnova. The poet accompanied Anna here after their meetings and general visits to the university and the circle. A good family did not come out of their couple: a simple artless girl, Anna did not enjoy the attention of her beloved for long. They soon parted, despite the birth of their son, Yuri (George) in December 1914.
In 1994, in the apartment where Anna lived with her son after parting with Yesenin, at lane Sivtsev Vrazhek, 44, apt. fourteen, through the efforts of the People's Artist of the USSR Sergei Nikonenko, the Yeseninsky Cultural Center was created Museum-apartment of A. R. Izryadnova. In this apartment, the ex-wife of the poet lived for 20 years, from her, on a false slander, her son Yuri, who was shot in 1937, was taken away. Here, visiting his son, Sergei Alexandrovich himself visited more than once, and his mother Tatyana Fedorovna Yesenina visited.
On his next visit to Moscow, Yesenin lived for some time in the Lux Hotel on st. Tverskoy, 10. The matured poet became, by this time, a more sophisticated person: he saw the revolution and St. Petersburg, met many poets and famous people. The first poetry collection "Radunitsa" brought him well-deserved fame and popularity. In the northern capital, he married an employee of a political newspaper, Zinaida Reich, with whom he also quickly parted, but divorced only in 1921.
In Moscow, Yesenin rushed into literary work with renewed vigor: by 1919, the poet's rapprochement with the Imagists dates back. On Tverskaya street, house number 37 there was a cult Imagist cafe "Pegas Stable" with a bright original interior, from which, unfortunately, nothing remains. But the building of the book "Shop of the Imaginists" was preserved in the house, on Bolshoy Nikitskaya, 15. The bookstore was jointly owned by Yesenin and his new close friend, poet and writer Anatoly Mariengof. According to the recollections of friends, Yesenin, irresistible in his dandy suit, was a success with buyers and quite successfully sold his poems. The two friends rented three rooms together in a communal apartment No. 46 at Bogoslovsky lane, 5 and all the creative talents of the capital of that time visited them. Now the lane is called Petrovsky. The house has been preserved, and a memorial plaque has been installed on it.
“Positive” addresses of Yesenin’s places, when he was youthfully enthusiastic and spontaneous, committed his “literary blasphemy” with his friends, delighted listeners with incredibly sonorous and picturesque images of his poems, and where he was truly happy, there are enough in the capital. Ebullient energy and passion attracted him to show himself everywhere, and the traces of the “Moscow mischievous reveler” were imprinted somewhere in the special annals of the city’s memory, incomprehensible to people.
AT Press House on Nikitsky Boulevard, 8a/3 Yesenin participated in the evenings and discussions of fellow writers, often spoke to the public. Now this building houses the Central House of Journalists. There are many similar "creative" addresses of Yesenin in Moscow. This is organized by Bryusov in the former Sollogub Manor, Higher literary and art institute on the st. Cook, 52. Now the address of the preserved house: Tsvetnoy Boulevard, 22. This House of Scientists at 16, now - the Club of the Russian Academy of Sciences. it Proletcult Club on the Vozdvizhenka, 18 arranged in the "Moorish Palace" of the merchant Morozov. The poet even lived in the house at the Proletkult Theater for some time.
Yesenin had to visit more than once Tverskoy, 25, where the Russian and Moscow associations of proletarian writers were located. Here Yesenin spoke to colleagues in the shop. In this building, in early 1926, a meeting was held on the issue of perpetuating the memory of the poet, and later the first museum of Sergei Yesenin was opened. It did not last long: ill-wishers began to desecrate Yesenin's heritage.
Not far from the Herzen House, on Tverskoy Boulevard located , beloved and revered poet Yesenin. Sergei Alexandrovich whenever possible visited the square in front of the monument, and on Pushkin's birthday he came specially - with flowers and for the sake of poems, which he listened to and read himself. During the funeral, the coffin with Yesenin was carried three times in a circle around the Pushkin monument. So inconsolable fans expressed their grief and love.
In the workshop of theater artist Georgy Yakulov on Bolshaya Sadovaya street, house number 10, better known for the fact that it houses Bulgakov's "bad" apartment, the poet met the American dancer Isadora Duncan. 26-year-old Yesenin and 42-year-old "divine Sandals" were carried away by each other at first sight. They lived in the Balashovsky mansion on st. Prechistenka, 20, where the rehearsal room of the ballerina Alexandra Balashova was used for the classes of the famous enthusiast of "modern dance" with Moscow children. In May 1922, the lovers registered their marriage at the Khamovniki registry office at Maly Mogiltsovsky lane, 3. At the Zimin Theater on Bolshaya Dmitrovka, 6 Isadora often performed before the admiring Moscow audience, and the poet, who accompanied his wife to all performances, was waiting for her in the box. Now this building belongs to the Operetta Theater on Bolshaya Dmitrovka.
The life of the lovers was not distinguished by complete harmony, and quarrels between them began almost immediately. Not wanting to sometimes appear to Isadora drunk or after another scandal, Yesenin spent the night with friends and acquaintances. AT Armory lane, 43 he was always ready to receive a good acquaintance and friend, journalist Ivan Ivanovich Startsev. He arranged for the poet in the room of his apartment on the 8th floor of the house, which was considered a skyscraper on the scale of Moscow in those years. Yesenin often visited here later - in 1924, but considered it inconvenient to embarrass the Startsev family.
After returning from a trip abroad, the couple returned to Prechistenka, but their relationship, which had never been serene, became completely unbearable. Yesenin moved to the apartment of his secretary Galia Benislavskaya, who had been in love with him since 1920. In the house at Bryusov lane, 2 , the poet lived for almost a year and a half. Later, the poet and his sisters Katya and Shura moved here. Yesenin came here drunk, after fights, scandals and brawls. He was pitied, treated and patiently waited after new adventures.
On the st. Pokrovka, house number 9 lived Valentin Volpin, a cousin of the poetess Nadezhda Volpin, with whom Yesenin had an affair that ended in May 1924 with the birth of a fourth child, son Alexander. Despite the difficult relationship between his sister and the poet, Valentin was friends with Yesenin from the time of his service in Tashkent, where they met in 1920.
After a divorce from Isadora, Yesenin in 1925 married Sofya Andreevna Tolstaya, the granddaughter of a famous writer. The newlyweds settled in the house No. 3 in Pomerantsev Lane. This marriage was not happy: the poet did not have particularly hot feelings for his wife, drank a lot and often spent the night away from home. Many relatives believed that he was greatly impressed by his wife's relationship with, and therefore the marriage took place. Aristocratically refined and restrained, Sophia in love forgave her husband and pitied him.
Yesenin's "easy gait", which "every dog knows" in the elm city, was out of the question: the memory of other traces of the poet began to remain on the streets of Moscow. Many years of struggle with the difficult conditions of creative life and violent temperament made themselves felt. After incessant binges, scandals and her husband's suicide attempts, Sofya Andreevna obtained Yesenin's consent to treatment "for nerves" in the paid psycho-neurological clinic of Professor Gannushkin, but the poet, not cured, fled to Petersburg, and from there he was brought already in a coffin.
Farewell to Yesenin took place in the House of Printing on
