Sergei Yesenin descendants. Sergei Yesenin and Zinaida Reich

Children of Sergei Yesenin. fate

Yesenin is an ardent nature, he loved women, they reciprocated. He left behind four children. Yuri was born in 1915. His mother, Anna Romanovna Izryadnova, worked as a proofreader at Sytin's printing house. He graduated from an aviation technical school, worked in A. Tupolev's design bureau. He was in character in his father - brave and cocky. For bold statements against the existing order, he, a 22-year-old guy, was arrested. In 1937 they were shot.

Zinaida Nikolaevna Reich gave birth to Yesenin in 1918, a daughter, Tatyana, and two years later, a son, Konstantin. These "children. As you know, after the death of Yesenin, Vsevolod Emilievich raised Meyerhold Konstantin Sergeevich died in Moscow in 1986, and Tatyana Sergeevna graduated from Moscow State University, now she is retired and lives in Tashkent.

The youngest son - Alexander, His mother - Nadezhda Davidovna Yesenina - Volpin lives in Moscow, keeps the brightest memories of her husband - Sergei Yesenin.

M. MALOV, literary critic.

And now let's trace their fate in more detail.

To begin with, let us recall the last years of the life of Zinaida Reich and Vsevolod Meyerhold.

The streak of light for Reich and Meyerhold ended in the second half of the 1930s. Theatrical innovations were now publicly called "Meyerholdism". In December 1937, after the premiere of Nikolai Ostrovsky's novel How the Steel Was Tempered, Pravda published a furious article entitled Alien Theatre. The persecution of the great director was supported by ... the then famous pilot Valery Chkalov. In early 1938, Meyerhold was fired, and the theater that bore his name was closed.

Eight years ago, Mikhail Chekhov warned about the likelihood of such a turn in the affairs of Vsevolod Emilievich in Berlin: “You should not return to Moscow: you will be killed there.” Then Meyerhold was offered to stay in Prague. Undoubtedly, he saw all the danger inexorably approaching him at home, but Europe, too, was then rolling into a brown abyss. In addition, he was firmly attached to his “travel restricted” wife, whom he could not part with even under pain of death.

Zinaida Nikolaevna answered her husband in full reciprocity, but she was sometimes careless and clumsy. For example, she not only pushed away the “all-Union headman” Kalinin, who had encroached on her, (the goat-bearded old man, carnivorously grinning, showed up to her make-up room), but also shouted in anger: “Everyone knows what a womanizer you are!” ... Almost She did not tell everyone she met that her husbands were being poisoned - Yesenin was brought to the noose, now they got to Meyerhold. And she repeated publicly: "Stalin does not understand art, so let him turn to Meyerhold!"

At night, hysterical seizures occurred with her, and Vsevolod Emilievich tied his wife to the bed with wet towels.

Soon they came for Meyerhold. A search was carried out in the apartment, and the hostess entered into the protocol slipped to her a complaint about the rudeness and rudeness of the Chekists. And in the evening she sent an angry letter to Stalin - she did not believe that the persecutors were acting with the sanction of the leader.

The killers who entered the apartment at night through the balcony, Zinaida Nikolaevna resisted desperately - she was not strong like a woman. The housekeeper Lidia Anisimovna, who, as Meyerhold’s granddaughter from her first marriage, Maria Vallentey, recalled, was found in the morning with a broken head on the floor at the front door, did not tell anyone anything, was arrested a few days later, and after her release disappeared somewhere ...

The neighbors heard the screams of Zinaida Nikolaevna, but they were afraid to come to the rescue. Almost no one was at her funeral...

Tatyana and Konstantin, children of Zinaida Reich and Sergei Yesenin, were evicted from the apartment at 48 o'clock. Beria's personal driver and a young employee of the NKVD apparatus began to live there.

Konstantin Sergeevich Yesenin (February 3, 1920, Moscow - April 26, 1986, ibid) - an outstanding Soviet sports journalist and statistician, football specialist.

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The son of the poet Sergei Yesenin and Zinaida Reich.

One of the first mentions of the work of Konstantin Yesenin is in the book "Big Football" by Andrei Starostin (1957). Collaborated with many sports publications. In particular, he was a member of the editorial board of the Football-Hockey weekly. It was on his initiative that this weekly established the Grigory Fedotov Club.

From an interview with Sicily Markovna Yesenina, wife of Konstantin Yesenin:

Konstantin Yesenin was fond of sports, football. You can't say the same about his father. Where did he get these hobbies?

Yes, because when his mother, Zinaida Reich, went abroad with Meyerhold, they brought him a lot of different football prospectuses, and even then, as a child, he became interested in sports.

He had three wounds. A lung was pierced, which left a 17 cm long suture on his back after the operation... He was awarded three Orders of the Red Star. Only the third order was received many years later, when I was already working in Hungary, somewhere in the early seventies ...

Konstantin was previously married, but already divorced. He was treated badly in that family. His friend said: we all came from the army, we had nothing. But somehow our wives dressed us all up. And Kostya wore an overcoat with one button...

We registered in 1951. We bought a ticket for Raikin's concert, and that's it. It wasn't before the wedding. He had a ten-meter room on the first floor. And I lived with my mother and son on Pravda Street. There was about 30 meters and a kitchenette with a stove. Then what was the time!

He was very modest at first, he did not turn up his nose. But then they began, you know, to wear it in their arms: both evenings and began to be published, they began to invite him to performances. And the actors are offended that he was there, but was not here. And he changed quite a bit, began to say: “You know, take a microphone and walk freely around the stage like that!” A horde of women and all...

And it so happened that I am, as they say, a domestic worker, and he goes there, and he goes here. And to my son, he does nothing at all. Although the son treated him very warmly and reached out. He wrote poetry and resorted to asking Konstantin to read it. But I told him when we decided to be together: just think! After all, I have a child, a son! .. ...

In 1980, we separated. And I broke up with him as with my husband in 1965, when my mother died. Konstantin died in 1986...

Did you have children?

We didn't have children. Because, as I thought, you can’t have children from them. They all had a very bad heredity, all Yesenins are sick. And he? Who had such a biography! Father hanged himself, mother was killed, stepfather was shot. He himself has such injuries! ..

Tatyana Yesenina - the poet's daughter

The daughter of Sergei Yesenin and Zinaida Reich, adopted by Vsevolod Emilievich, lived a difficult and eventful life. After the arrest of Meyerhold and the brutal murder of her mother, left with her younger brother and a small child in her arms, evicted from her parents' apartment, she saved Meyerhold's archive by hiding it in a dacha in the suburbs, and at the beginning of the war handed it over to S. M. Eisenstein for safekeeping. Being evacuated in Tashkent, she stayed there for the rest of her life. The talented journalist, writer, editor T. S. Yesenina initiated the process of Meyerhold's rehabilitation. Published memoirs about Meyerhold and Reich. Her letters to the researcher of Meyerhold's work, K. L. Rudnitsky, are still the most important source for those who study the work of the great director of the 20th century.

Yesenin's son

Alexander Sergeevich was born on May 12, 1924. His mother - Nadezhda Davydovna Volpina (1900-1998), an outstanding writer, translator (thousands of pages of translations from German, French, Greek, Turkmen, including Ovid, Goethe, Hugo, etc.), author of the memoirs "Date with a friend ". In her youth, she wrote and read poetry from the stage. In the 1920s, she joined the Imagists, and then she met Sergei Yesenin. In early 1924, after a break with Yesenin, she left Moscow for Leningrad, where she soon gave birth to a son.

Mother and son moved to Moscow in 1933. Alexander Sergeevich graduated from the Mechanics and Mathematics Department of Moscow State University, defended his dissertation in mathematics and received a referral to teaching at Chernivtsi University (Ukraine). There he was arrested for the first time for reading his own poems in a circle of friends - the poems were recognized as anti-Soviet. Declared insane, placed in a Leningrad psychiatric hospital, soon sent into exile in Karaganda for five years, but three years later, in 1953, after Stalin's death, he was released under an amnesty and returned to the capital.

And then - again science, its own direction - ultra-intuitionism, dozens of poems. In 1961, his collection "Spring Leaf" was published in New York - for lovers of poetry, and "Free Philosophical Treatise" - for those whose conscience cannot be silent.

By the way, the publication of "Spring Leaf" in New York is the second case in the history of Soviet literature after "Doctor Zhivago" when a book was printed abroad without the sanction of the authorities and under the real name of the author.

And then - a whole series of new "madness". He is the author of most of the slogans of the human rights movement. It was he who compiled the text of the "Civil Appeal" - a call for a demonstration on December 5, 1965, organized by Vladimir Bukovsky in connection with the arrest of the writers Sinyavsky and Daniel.

Yesenin-Volpin was the author of the most famous document of the dissident movement at that time - "Instructions for those who are to be interrogated" (1968). It was passed to each other by the persecuted inside the country, and in 1973 it was printed in Paris.

They took him to the Lubyanka - and let him go: there was nothing to grab onto. He reminded the authorities that dissent is not at odds with the law, and therefore should not be punished.

Volpin's wife Victoria recalled: once, during a three-hour conversation with investigators, Alexander Sergeevich exhausted them so much that they gave up, called her and said: "Take it!".

He actively worked in the Human Rights Committee, created by Dmitry Sakharov, Valery Chalidze, Andrey Tverdokhlebov. He wrote reports on the right to defense, on the rights of the mentally ill, on international human rights pacts, etc. As a result, in March 1972, the authorities made Alexander Sergeevich understand that it would be better for him to leave the country. And in May of the same year, he emigrated to the United States.

And just a few photos.

The youngest son - Alexander, His mother - Nadezhda Davidovna Yesenina - Volpin lives in Moscow, keeps the brightest memories of her husband - Sergei Yesenin.

M. MALOV, literary critic.

And now let's trace their fate in more detail.

To begin with, let us recall the last years of the life of Zinaida Reich and Vsevolod Meyerhold.

At night, hysterical seizures occurred with her, and Vsevolod Emilievich tied his wife to the bed with wet towels.

The neighbors heard the screams of Zinaida Nikolaevna, but they were afraid to come to the rescue. Almost no one was at her funeral...

Konstantin Sergeevich Yesenin (February 3, 1920, Moscow - April 26, 1986, ibid) - an outstanding Soviet sports journalist and statistician, football specialist.

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The son of the poet Sergei Yesenin and Zinaida Reich.

From an interview with Sicily Markovna Yesenina, wife of Konstantin Yesenin:

Konstantin Yesenin was fond of sports, football. You can't say the same about his father. Where did he get these hobbies?

Yes, because when his mother, Zinaida Reich, went abroad with Meyerhold, they brought him a lot of different football prospectuses, and even then, as a child, he became interested in sports.

In 1980, we separated. And I broke up with him as with my husband in 1965, when my mother died. Konstantin died in 1986...

Did you have children?

Tatyana Yesenina - the poet's daughter

They took him to the Lubyanka - and let him go: there was nothing to grab onto. He reminded the authorities that dissent is not at odds with the law, and therefore should not be punished.

Volpin's wife Victoria recalled: once, during a three-hour conversation with investigators, Alexander Sergeevich exhausted them so much that they gave up, called her and said: "Take it!".

And just a few photos.

Sergei Yesenin passed away early. We can say, in the prime of his work - at the age of 30. But, as they say, human life is measured not by the number of years lived, but by deeds, in this case, the poetic heritage. Yesenin left behind a whole world of his sincere poetry, which the people love. Being an ardent and passionate nature, Yesenin could not live without women, but they also fell in love with him without memory. He had several marriages and extramarital affairs, which resulted in the birth of four children. The article will discuss the fate of the children and grandchildren of Sergei Yesenin.

Early marriage

Not all young people at such an early age have ambitious dreams. But Yesenin at his 17 had such a dream - to become a famous poet. And not just to write poetry, but to be printed, to be recognizable as famous poets of that time. For the sake of his goal, he goes to the capital, where he gets a job at Sytin's printing house. Seeing the proofreader of the printing house Anna Izryadnova, Yesenin falls in love with this beautiful, intelligent Muscovite. In 1914, as a result of a stormy romance, Yesenin's first child, Yuri, was born. A quiet life, everyday troubles and quickly bored family ties lead to a break in their relationship. This takes place in 1915. Yesenin needed a dizzying career, not family life. He goes to Petrograd to seek happiness.

The tragic fate of Yuri

Anna Romanovna Izryadnova raised her son herself. Shortly before his death, Yesenin went to Anna. As she wrote in her memoirs: I went in to say goodbye and asked to take care of my son. Yuri's mother, not being the legal wife of Sergei Yesenin, was forced to prove through the court that her son Yuri was from Sergei, but this was after his death.

After graduating from school and an aviation technical school, Yuri leaves for military service in 1937 to the Far East. According to the denunciation that the NKVD practiced in those years, Yuri was taken into custody and charged with an article on participation in a counter-revolutionary group in preparation for an assassination attempt on Stalin. For interrogations, he is taken to a prison in the Lubyanka, where, using torture, a confession is knocked out of a young guy about something that actually did not happen. The highest penalty for "deeds" is execution. The sentence was carried out on August 13, 1937.

Yesenin's second marriage

The young rake could not help but fall in love with Zinaida Reich, having met her in one of the St. Petersburg newspapers. At that time she worked as a typist, and he brought his poems to print in the newspaper. A beautiful and elegant girl won the heart of Sergei, but the handsome Yesenin also touched her heart. Without much courtship, the couple married in 1917. Daughter Tatyana was born a year later. Zinaida gave birth to her son two years later, saving, as it seemed to her, a marriage that was bursting at the seams. The environment of the poet, who was in vogue, in every way contributed to the collapse of his family. The Imagists, the guardians of the “Russian national idea”, did not like the Jewish surname of his wife. But even more they were pissed off by Zinaida's desire to take her husband away from under their pernicious influence. However, Yesenin was never faithful to them in relations with women. The marriage was not saved by the children, which Zinaida strongly hoped for. Reich officially breaks up with Yesenin.

Loose life and third marriage

After a divorce from his second wife, Yesenin leads a wild life. In a state of intoxication, he is rowdy, arranges scandals, easily relates to casual relationships. The nugget poet inherited his craving for alcohol from his ancestors. They suffered from alcoholism for several generations. And in this whirlpool of passions, he meets a woman who is 18 years older than him. This is American dancer Isadora Duncan. What united them? He doesn't know English, she doesn't speak Russian. But, as always, there was passion and romance. They got married and went on a tour of Europe. It is impossible to say that Yesenin's life has become calm. On the contrary, these are the most chaotic pages from the history of his life with endless quarrels and scandals. He and Isadora broke up and got back together again and again. The share of this wife of Yesenin was beaten and humiliated much more than his previous one. Upon arrival from abroad, they parted.

Yesenin's younger son - Alexander

Sergei Yesenin had a short-lived affair with Nadezhda Volpina, who joined the Imagists in the 1920s. Yesenin, as a new peasant poet, was a member of this movement. The novel, as always, did not last long, but rapidly. In 1924, after a break with Sergei, Nadezhda Volpina left Moscow for Leningrad. On May 12, 1924, Alexander is born - Yesenin's child, about whom the woman did not tell him. So circumstances developed that the father never found out about his fourth child. Years later, it became known about him from the memoirs of Alexander's mother "A Date with a Friend". After that, it only became clear how many children Sergei Yesenin actually had.

Yesenin's new novels

It is not known how many women shared the joys of love with Sergei Yesenin. History knows the most vivid novels. Yesenin wrote in verse that many women loved him, and he himself loved more than one.

After a break with Nadezhda Volpina, Galina Benislavskaya appears in Yesenin's life, to whom he moves to live in Bryusovy Lane, where his two sisters Katerina and Alexandra also lived. Not having lived even a year, Yesenin breaks off relations with Galina, who had a very hard time parting with him. The women of Sergei Yesenin reacted differently to ending relationships with him. Galina, even after his death, did not want to part with him, and on the eve of the first anniversary of the poet's death at Yesenin's grave, she committed suicide by shooting herself in the heart with a pistol.

Meeting with Sofia Tolstaya

The beginning of 1925 brought him a meeting with Sophia, who was the granddaughter of Leo Tolstoy. She was five years younger than Yesenin. The marriage was formalized, but Yesenin did not find happiness in it, according to his confession to a friend, he lived with an unloved woman. Constant spree, leaving home continued in this marriage. In the fall of 1925, going into a binge ended in hospitalization in a neuropsychiatric clinic. Without completing the course of treatment, Yesenin was discharged from the clinic and, having removed all his savings from the passbook, he left for Leningrad, to the Angleterre Hotel, where he met his death.

From the memoirs of the daughter of Sergei Yesenin

She said that the relationship between her parents after the divorce remained normal, and moreover, her mother still continued to love her father all the years, and her father loved her, devoting a lot of poems, in some of them he addressed lines of jealousy for her new husband. Creative personalities are not quite ordinary people, they are completely absorbed by activity, fame, environment. That is why Tatyana's father could not fully give himself to the family. Tatyana Sergeevna Yesenina wrote about this in her memoirs.

In the new marriage, Reich, the children, Tatyana and Konstantin, were adopted by Vsevolod Meyerhold, Zinaida's second husband. He sincerely became attached to them, and they also answered him with their love and trusted their stepfather in everything. But Yesenin was not forbidden to communicate with children.

Sergei Alexandrovich visited his daughter and son, but did not give them gifts, believing that children should simply love their parents, and not in gratitude for the gifts. He really did not like that the children read the poems of other authors, and constantly reminded them that they should read the poems of their father. Tatyana was a favorite. Yesenin communicated with her more than with his son, and not because she, as the eldest daughter, was more reasonable. She just looked like him, and Yesenin's second child, Kostya, was more like a mother.

At the time of Sergei Yesenin's death, Tatyana was seven years old, and her brother was five. She remembered the moment when her father said goodbye to her and her brother before leaving for Leningrad. He was very sad. The last time Tatyana saw her father was at the funeral. His women came to take Yesenin on his last journey: Tatyana's mother - Zinaida Reich, Anna Izryadnova, Galina Benislavskaya and the last wife of the poet Sofya Tolstaya ...

The further fate of Tatyana

The arrests of 1937 did not pass by the Meyerhold family. Vsevolod Emilievich was arrested as a spy and shot, and Zinaida, the mother of Yesenin's children, was brutally murdered. The fate of the children of Sergei Yesenin was difficult, they went through difficult trials, but they lived long and interesting lives.

Tatyana and her brother Konstantin were evicted from their parents' apartment. She managed to save Meyerhold's archive, all his legacy, at a dacha in Balashikha near Moscow, and before the start of the war she handed it over to Eisenstein. When the war began, Tatyana, with her husband and son Vladimir, evacuated to Tashkent, where the talented journalist and writer Tatyana Sergeevna Yesenina spent her whole life. She initiated the process of rehabilitating her stepfather. Memoirs about Meyerhold and Reich were written and published.

It is known about Tatyana Sergeevna's family life that her husband, Vladimir Ivanovich Kutuzov, worked in a mine. The marriage had two sons. Tatyana Yesenina died on May 5, 1992 in Tashkent, where she was buried in the central cemetery. After her death, her son Sergei, his children and grandchildren returned to Russia.

The poet's son - Konstantin

After the massacre of the authorities over the Meyerhold family, Konstantin and Tatyana live in a country dacha. Before the war, he graduated from Moscow School No. 86 and entered the Moscow Civil Engineering Institute to study. In 1941, being a 4th year student, he volunteered for the front. In 1942 he defended the besieged Leningrad. Fights in 1944 on the Karelian Isthmus. He finished the war with three wounds and two orders of the Red Star, the third order was awarded to him in the 70s. After the war, Konstantin completed his education at MISI. He works at Moscow construction sites, in the 1950s and 1960s he takes part in the construction of the Central Stadium in Luzhniki. He held leading positions at construction sites in Moscow.

In the sports world, Konstantin is known as a football connoisseur. He became interested in football before the war, being a university student. After the war, he played in the combined teams of production teams. He continued to engage in football statistics, which he began to conduct from the 30s. This was helped by prospectuses brought by parents from abroad. He is the most famous football historiographer.

Yesenin's son, Konstantin, was married twice. In his first marriage, he had a daughter, Marina. The marriage quickly fell apart. The second time Konstantin married in 1951. There were no children in this marriage. The wife had a child from her first marriage. After 14 years, their relationship ended, and in 1980 a divorce was filed.

After himself, Konstantin left several publications about sports, books about football were written, he was deputy chairman of the USSR Football Federation for many years. Almost all of his life is devoted to sports. Konstantin died in 1986.

Alexander Yesenin-Volpin

As mentioned above, this child of Yesenin was born shortly before the death of his father. In 1933, his mother and Alexander returned to Moscow. When Alexander graduated from high school, he entered Moscow State University. There, after graduating from the university, he defended his Ph.D. thesis in mathematical logic. However, he is not only a scientist, he, like his father, writes poetry, but is published under the name of his mother. Anti-Soviet poems more than once gave rise to sending him to mental hospitals for treatment. 14 years of staying in them is a considerable period.

Then he ended up in exile in Karaganda and stayed there until the mid-1950s, after Stalin's death he was released under an amnesty. Returning from exile, he conducts human rights activities, and in 1972 he leaves for America and lives in forced emigration in the American Boston. He spent his last days in a nursing home, and on March 16, 2016, Alexander died in America.

Grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Sergei Yesenin

Now Yesenin's descendants live in Moscow. These are two grandsons, Tatyana's sons, Vladimir (b. 1938) and Sergey (b. 1942). For many years they lived with their parents in Tashkent, but returned to Russia only in the 90s, after the death of their mother. Marina, the daughter of Konstantin, also lives in Moscow. Each of them has families. Their children, great-grandchildren of Sergei Yesenin, have long become adults.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Kutuzov (his father's surname) has two sons.

Sergei Vladimirovich Yesenin and his wife have two daughters - Zinaida and Anna. Zinaida teaches biology and continues to collect information on the family tree of her famous great-grandfather. In 1991, her son Sergei was born, the namesake of the eminent great-great-grandfather. The second daughter is an artist. Her daughter Daria followed in the footsteps of her mother, also deciding to paint. This is Yesenin's great-great-granddaughter.

Each descendant of the world-famous nugget poet Sergei Yesenin is just as talented and everyone is a creative person.

Romance was the meaning of life and a source of inspiration for the handsome blond poet Sergei Yesenin. A favorite of women, he caught courage in relations with them. And the result was more and more new works, which to this day tease the souls of true lovers of Russian poetry.

He married four times, each time leaving in a relationship, as if in a whirlpool. There were also fleeting short novels with women. like their mothers, they suffered from a lack of attention on his part, because poetry occupied all the thoughts and time of this great man. The life of Sergei Alexandrovich once again proves that creative individuals cannot fully give themselves to the family, like ordinary people.

This article will discuss how the fate of the descendants of the great poet developed. Where are Yesenin's children? What have they dedicated their lives to? What are the poet's grandchildren doing? We will try to answer all these questions below.

First marriage with Anna Izryadnova. Birth of the eldest son

With Anna Romanovna Izryadnova, an educated girl from an intelligent Moscow family, Yesenin met at Sytin's printing house. She worked as a proofreader, and he was first a forwarder, and then received the position of assistant proofreader. Relations were born quickly, and young people began to live in a civil marriage. In 1914, the son of Yesenin and Izryadnova, Yuri, was born. But family life did not go well, and a year after the birth of the child, the couple broke up. The main reason for the gap was life, which very quickly seized the poet.

These were the first serious relationships that showed that in long-term permanent unions, the poet's creative soul sooner or later "asks" for freedom. Yesenin, whose wives and children have never felt a solid male shoulder next to them, are still happy people. In their veins flows the blood of the greatest of men of our time. The creator loved each of the children in his own way, tried to help financially, sometimes visited.

Yesenin did not refuse his son, but due to the fact that the marriage with Izryadnova was not registered, the woman had to seek official recognition of the poet's paternity after his death in court.

The tragic fate of Yuri Yesenin

Yesenin's children are outwardly very attractive, including Yuri. A stately, fit young man dreamed of military service since childhood. He studied at the Moscow Aviation Technical School, after which he was sent to the Far East for further service. There, a tragic accident occurred, due to which the life of a young man ended so early. Yuriy was falsely accused and taken to Lubyanka. He was charged with involvement in a "counter-revolutionary fascist-terrorist group." At first, he categorically denied his guilt, but as a result of the use of barbaric methods, a confession was knocked out of him. In 1937 he was shot. And after almost 20 years, in 1956, he was posthumously rehabilitated.

Sergei Yesenin and Zinaida Reich

In 1917, the poet marries. After a year of marriage, their joint daughter Tatyana was born. Relations with the second wife also did not go well. Three years of marriage passed in constant quarrels and quarrels, as a result of which the couple converged and diverged several times. The son of Yesenin and Reich, Konstantin, was born in 1920, when they were already officially divorced and did not live together. Having become pregnant for the second time, Zinaida hoped that in this way she would be able to keep her beloved man nearby. However, the rebellious spirit of the poet did not allow Yesenin to enjoy a measured family life.

Vsevolod Meyerhold and Zinaida Reich

Yesenin's children found their second father when Zinaida Reich's new husband, the famous director Vsevolod Meyerhold, adopted them.

He treated them well and considered them his children. A happy childhood flew by very quickly, and a new shock awaited the grown-up Tanya and Kostya. First, in 1937, Vsevolod Emilievich was arrested and shot. He was accused of international espionage for Japan and England. And after some time, the life of their mother, Zinaida Nikolaevna, was cut short. She was brutally murdered in her own apartment under unclear circumstances.

However, the hardships did not prevent the children of Yesenin and Zinaida Reich to walk their life path with dignity and become famous and respected people.

Children of Yesenin and Zinaida Reich: Tatyana

Daughter Tanya, a beauty with blond curls, so similar to himself, Sergei Alexandrovich loved very much. When she lost her stepfather and mother at the age of twenty, she herself had a small child in her arms (son Vladimir), and also her younger brother remained in her care. Another blow was the decision of the authorities to evict her and the children from her parents' apartment. However, Tatyana, strong in spirit, did not surrender to fate. She managed to save the priceless archive of Meyerhold, which she first hid in a dacha in the Moscow region, and then, when the war began, she gave it to S. M. Eisenstein for safekeeping.

During the war, during the evacuation, Tatyana ended up in Tashkent, which became her home. The conditions were terrible, she wandered the streets with her family until Alexei Tolstoy, who knew and loved her father, came to her aid. Being at that time a deputy of the Supreme Council, he made a lot of efforts to knock out a small room in the barrack for Tatyana's family.

Later, having risen to her feet, Tatyana Sergeevna achieved great success. She was a talented journalist, writer, editor. It was she who initiated the process of rehabilitation of her foster father Vsevolod Meyerhold. T. S. Yesenina wrote a book containing her childhood memories of her parents and published her memoirs about Meyerhold and Reich. The well-known researcher of Meyerhold's work, K. L. Rudnitsky, admitted that Tatyana Sergeevna's materials served as the most important source of information about the work of the great director of the last century. Yesenin's children from Zinaida Nikolaevna Reich, in general, made a lot of efforts to preserve the memory of their father, mother and stepfather.

The poet's daughter for a long time was the director of the museum of S. A. Yesenin. She passed away in 1992.

Konstantin

In 1938, Kostya Yesenin entered the Moscow Civil Engineering Institute. Konstantin, who had just turned 21 at the start of the war, immediately decided to volunteer for the front. He went through the hardships of the war, was seriously wounded several times, received three orders of the Red Star. He returned home in 1944, when, after another injury, he was discharged for health reasons.

He successfully proved himself in sports journalism, did a lot of sports statistics. From his pen came such books as "Football: records, paradoxes, tragedies, sensations", "Moscow football", "USSR national team". For many years he served as Deputy Chairman of the USSR Football Federation. Lived in Moscow. Died in 1986. And to this day, the daughter of Konstantin Sergeevich, Marina, lives.

Based on the foregoing, we can conclude that the children of Yesenin and Reich were purposeful people who proved their worth and dignity in their personal and professional lives. Each of them chose his own path, but neither Konstantin nor Tatyana ever forgot that they were the children of a great man - the poet Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin.

Relations with Nadezhda Volpin

In 1920, Yesenin met the poetess Nadezhda, who became interested in poetry in her youth, was an active participant in the Green Workshop poetry studio, led by Andrei Bely.

Her love affair with Yesenin lasted long enough. On May 12, 1924, she gave birth to a son from Yesenin, whom she named Alexander.

Alexander Volpin - Yesenin's illegitimate son

When getting acquainted with the work of Sergei Alexandrovich and his biography, reasonable questions arise: are Yesenin's children alive? Does any of his offspring write such talented poems as their ancestor? Unfortunately, as mentioned above, the three older children of the poet have already passed away. The only living one is the illegitimate son of the poet, Alexander Yesenin-Volpin. We can safely say that he inherited the rebellious spirit of his father, but no one, even his children, could probably write like Yesenin.

Alexander Sergeevich studied at the Faculty of Mechanics of Moscow State University, then entered graduate school. In 1949 he became a candidate of mathematical sciences. In the same year, he was arrested for the first time for writing "anti-Soviet poems" and sent for compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital. And then for several years he spent in exile in Karaganda. After returning from exile, he began to engage in a lot of human rights activities, which from time to time was interrupted by numerous arrests and treatment in a psychiatric hospital. In total, A. Yesenin-Volpin spent 14 years in captivity.

The trio "Volpin, Chalidze and Sakharov" are the founders of the Human Rights Committee. Alexander Sergeevich is the author of the samizdat manual, which tells about how to behave during interrogations.

The older children of Sergei Yesenin (see photo below) lived all their lives in Moscow, while the youngest son Alexander Volpin emigrated to America in 1972, where he still lives. Studied mathematics and philosophy. Now he is living his life in the USA, in a shelter for the elderly with mental disorders.

Sergei Vladimirovich Yesenin - grandson of the poet

Sergei Yesenin, whose children and grandchildren have become worthy people who have shown themselves in various fields of activity, could be proud of his descendants. Each of them carried the love for the work of their great ancestor throughout their lives.

For example, the son of Tatyana Yesenina, Sergei Vladimirovich, who has worked in the construction industry for many years and is seriously engaged in sports mountaineering, in addition, studies the genealogy of his family and helps the Yesenin museums to recreate moments in the life of the great poet.

In his youth, he played football. Once his team won the youth championship of Uzbekistan. Was fond of chess. But the real passion of his life was mountaineering. And for 10 years, this activity became his profession, when he taught mountain climbers.

He and his family moved to Moscow in the early 90s. This could have been done earlier, because in 1957 his mother, Tatyana Yesenina, was invited to return to the capital, but she did not want to live in the city, where she tragically lost all her closest people.

Museums named after Sergei Yesenin

At the moment, there are several museums dedicated to the life and work of this great man. Yesenin's children, whose biography, photos of which are also exhibited in these museums, helped these organizations a lot, especially Konstantin and Tatyana. And the poet's grandson, his namesake Sergei, more than once helped organize this or that exhibition dedicated to the life and work of the great poet. Sergei Vladimirovich believes that one of the best is the Yesenin Museum, which is located in Tashkent. He also speaks well of the metropolitan institution, which is located in the house where the poet, together with his father, rented an apartment.

In where Sergei Yesenin was born and spent his childhood, there is a whole museum complex. The house where the future creator was born is still preserved. Not all things in this house are real, but some are genuine. They really held in the hands of Sergei Yesenin. Children and grandchildren have replenished the collection of the museum complex with things that keep the memory of their great ancestor. And Sergei Vladimirovich also participated in organizing the activities of the Meyerhold Museum, providing a lot of materials about the life of the director with Zinaida Reich.

Sergei Yesenin: children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren ...

Two grandsons live in Russia - Vladimir and Sergey, who has already been mentioned, the granddaughter Marina, as well as their offspring, who have long become adults. Vladimir Kutuzov (he took the name of his father, Tatyana Yesenina's husband) has two sons. Sergei and his wife raised two beautiful daughters, Zinaida and Anna. Zinaida is engaged in teaching activities and devotes a lot of time to compiling the genealogical tree of her family. She has a son. Anna is an artist. Her daughter, the poet's great-great-granddaughter, decided to follow in her footsteps.

Thus, not only the children of Yesenin, the biography, photos of which are presented in this article, but also his more distant descendants are creative personalities.

The mystery of the poet's death

To this day, the death of S. Yesenin remains an unsolved mystery, shrouded in many incomprehensible facts. Some of the researchers still believe that it was a banal suicide, while others insist on the version of the murder. Indeed, there are many facts pointing to the second version. This is a mess in the hotel room, and the torn clothes of the poet, and abrasions on the body ... But, be that as it may, Sergei Yesenin is a great Russian poet, whose work was, is and will be the property of our people for many centuries.

"SERGEI YESENIN WAS A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSMAN." "Izvestia" learned the opinion of the poet's relatives about the television series.

(img) The show of the TV series "Yesenin" has ended, and the conversations around it do not subside. Perhaps, disputes about the artistic merits of the film, as well as about the game of Sergei Bezrukov, can be left to film critics. In the end, it's a matter of taste. But everything that concerns historical justice is beyond the scope of discussion by a narrow circle of critics and professional film lovers. In the poet's family, the series is assessed as "an insult to the whole color of our poetry."

Meanwhile, the series has one clear advantage - a lot of viewers (judging by the discussions in Internet forums) ran to bookstores after the end of the show to buy and re-read Yesenin's poems. It is no secret that for many, knowledge of his work is limited to the framework of the school curriculum. And someone, like one of the readers of Izvestia, who called the editorial office, re-read it, "to get rid of the feeling of dirt after the film."

The hypertrophied image of a reveler, a drunkard and a neurotic - that's what the viewers of the series saw. Even for those who are at least a little familiar with the biography of the poet, Yesenin's screen image was a shock. What can we say about relatives who experienced each new series as a personal insult. “They didn’t consult,” “they didn’t listen to our opinion,” “everyone vulgarized” - that’s what the direct heirs of Sergei Yesenin say about the television series. However, not only the Yesenins were dissatisfied, but also the relatives of other historical figures shown in the film. The granddaughter of Lev Kamenev directly calls the series slander.

“There is no person in the film who was Yesenin”

After the release of the television series, the descendants of the poet have to restore the historical truth

Sergei Yesenin left many descendants, both direct and not so. The last surviving son of the poet Alexei Yesenin-Volpin lives in America, all the rest - grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren, nieces with their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren - in Moscow and its environs. One of the closest descendants is the grandson of the poet, whose name is also Sergey. Now his family is recovering from the sensational series. In the hero of Bezrukov Jr., the Yesenins did not recognize their ancestor.

Poetic "Brigade"

“There is no person there who was Yesenin,” states the poet’s grandson Sergei Vladimirovich. They are talking about someone else.

Sergey Vladimirovich is masculinely restrained, his wife Tatyana Alekseevna is much more emotional, although she says that she has already calmed down.

This show just killed me! she waves her hand.

“I expected it to turn out like that,” says Sergey Vladimirovich about the series. - He is given life. Now life is like this.

The Yesenin spouses had one more reason to fear that in the series the poet would not turn out the way his descendants see him. They saw Sergei Bezrukov in the role of Yesenin at the Yermolova Theater and even then criticized the created image.

“He showed a peasant boy who drinks, swears, yells “Dunka” at Isadora,” says Tatyana Alekseevna. - We said that Yesenin was different. But we never thought that they would slide into such vulgarity. They insulted not only Yesenin, they insulted the whole flower of our poetry. The result was a "Brigade" with poets.

Yesenin was so beaten in the play! And I said he was a tough guy. This is what Bezrukov took into account in the series, - the poet's grandson remarks maliciously.

Athlete. Businessman. Refugee

Yesenin's grandfather and grandson never saw, and could not see each other: more than 15 years passed between the death of one and the birth of the other. But the similarity of the two Yesenins is not limited to the coincidence of names.

“Sergey Vladimirovich outwardly looks very much like his grandfather,” says his wife Tatyana Alekseevna. - They say that both the movements and the figure are similar.

“I have his dimensions, too,” adds Sergey Vladimirovich, lean and not very tall.

Sergei Vladimirovich belongs to the "Tashkent branch" of the Yesenin family. His mother Tatyana, the daughter of Yesenin and actress Zinaida Reich, was sent to Uzbekistan in 1941 (Sergey Vladimirovich is sure that she was not evacuated, but exiled as the stepdaughter of the enemy of the people Meyerhold). There, the following year, her son Sergei was born. The boy studied well at school, showing special abilities in mathematics, and successfully studied in a chess circle. He could have become a mathematician or a chess player, but instead he went to the mountains.

Father Vladimir Ivanovich worked in Uzbekshakhtstroy and brought samples of rocks to his son, and a familiar geologist, academician Ivan Popov, told the boy about expeditions to the mountains. Young Sergei Yesenin went first into mountain tourism, and then into mountaineering. “I fulfilled the norms for a master of sports in mountaineering three times, but I never completed the paperwork, so I don’t have the official title of“ master of sports ”,” says Sergey Vladimirovich. But the lack of a title did not prevent him from climbing the peaks of seven thousand meters several times - Communism, Korzhenevskaya and Lenin, every year becoming the champion of Uzbekistan in mountaineering and bypassing the entire Tien Shan. “Semenov-Tyan-Shansky himself could not compare with me, he passed less!” Yesenin is proud.

The military laid eyes on Sergei Vladimirovich, and in the summer months he began to teach climbing the mountains of paratroopers and special infantry units. During the rest of the year, he worked as a senior engineer for labor protection in construction, taught at the Polytechnic Institute and various construction associations. “I carried out the tasks of the Central Committee of the Party of Uzbekistan for protection,” Yesenin emphasizes. “I was proud of it, it was very responsible!”

Cooperation with the army lasted 10 years, and then Yesenin switched to geodesy. “I crossed the border almost to Pobeda Peak, participated in the demarcation of the border with China. But we didn’t consider Afghanistan to be another state either, they were our own, ”he recalls. In 1987, Yesenin organized one of the first cooperatives in Uzbekistan with the unpretentious name "Alpinist".

Then the Soviet Union collapsed. Life in Uzbekistan has become very difficult. The Yesenin family decided to move to Moscow. But in Moscow they had nothing. The Soviet authorities, say Sergey Vladimirovich and Tatyana Alekseevna, confiscated three apartments from their ancestors. Sergei Vladimirovich wrote a letter to Luzhkov. “I ask for your assistance in returning my family to Moscow for permanent residence,” the letter said. Neither the famous ancestor nor the three apartments were mentioned in the letter. It was about how difficult and dangerous it became to live in Tashkent. And Luzhkov went forward - he gave the Yesenins a small three-room apartment on Vernadsky Avenue. True, the entire large family with children and grandchildren did not fit there.

Mathematicians and artists

Zinaida, 42, does not have an apartment in Moscow. Yes, she does not particularly strive for the city: she likes nature. Zinaida is a biologist by education. In her youth, she firmly believed in science and scientific ideas. But one day I realized that science does not provide answers to all the questions that occupy it. And Zinaida trained as an astrologer. She does not make newspaper forecasts. Her specialty is larger: personality astrology, that is, advising people on issues that are important to them - whether it is worth changing jobs, moving to another country and making other fateful decisions. In parallel with astrological counseling, Zinaida teaches tai chi tsuan - this is the practice of controlling internal energy, and at the same time one of the types of martial arts. It is believed that if a person has been studying tai chi tsuan for ten years, he can easily cope with a boxer with the same experience.

“Zina walks here with a sword, like Glucose,” 33-year-old Anna laughs.

The sisters have a very tender relationship with each other, although they are completely different neither in appearance nor in character. Anna is a chubby laugher, Zinaida is thin and more restrained. Anna is an artist, now, as an artist should be, she is free. But when money is needed, Anna admits, she can work with anyone. She even had a chance to work as a securities accountant. It was a feat, because she has such a relationship with mathematics: adding the same numbers ten times on a calculator, she will get ten different results.

Mathematics is generally a special subject in the Yesenin family. All of them can be divided into "mathematicians" and "artists". The sisters claim that the obvious mathematical abilities among their relatives are manifested mainly in men. Women, on the other hand, are carriers of the "mathematical gene."

Beyond drunkenness and Russian birches

Married Anna and Zinaida bear their family surname. Although from the surname they have more problems than dividends. Yesenin was a persecuted poet, Anna and Zinaida explain, his descendants were considered unreliable and were under the supervision of special services. The sisters also got it from ordinary citizens, both from the poet's dislikes and from his admirers. So, at the age of four in the hospital, Zinaida had to hide from the nurses from a certain woman who shouted to her: “How dare you bear such a surname ?!” And 12-year-old Anna at home once withstood the siege of a violent admirer of the poet, who claimed that she was the wife of Sergei Yesenin. The fan had to call the orderlies.

The sisters complain that people are interested in outrageous moments in the biography of their ancestor. The family wants people to recognize the real Yesenin.

“For the majority, Yesenin is drunken shocking and Russian nature,” says Zinaida. - On this label they stop. And he was more versatile.

- I hate the word "nugget" in relation to Yesenin, - says Sergei Vladimirovich. - Wow "nugget" - studied all his life! No one says that he was a good boy and did not go to taverns, but in his verses there is a lyrical hero, and not himself!

Sergei Vladimirovich and Tatyana Alexandrovna are actively fighting for the restoration of the "honor and dignity" of the poet. Sergei Vladimirovich generally has a very unusual vision of Yesenin.

“Poetry is the result of his social activity,” he says. He was a word fighter. He was very much involved in social activities: he was the first chairman of the Union of Poets of Russia, headed the society of imagists, the club of peasant poets, led the controversy - in his academic seven-volume edition there are only three volumes of poetry, the rest are articles and letters on social topics.

“Come on,” Tatyana Alekseevna remarks sarcastically, “judging by the film, he only drank, walked and cried. When did he manage to write so much?

“At first he accepted the revolution well,” continues Sergei Vladimirovich. - And then ... There is one moment in the film that they almost truly showed - the execution of peasants, Yesenin sees him from the train window. He was very puzzled by this, he had a question: what kind of power is this? And slowly, in connection with these events, “poetry of directed action” begins to appear in him.

Sergei Vladimirovich adheres to the version of the violent death of the poet, but categorically disagrees that this was done on the orders of Trotsky.

- Yesenin respected Trotsky very much because he understood literature. They had a big controversy on questions of literature. They adhered to polar views: Trotsky believed that the communists should deal with literature, Yesenin - that talents. And Trotsky truly loved him, he spoke so many good words about him both during his life and after his death. He was killed by the poets of Chekists.

- For the fact that he fought against the Soviet regime?

“For fighting against the party word,” Sergey Vladimirovich corrects.

According to Anna and Zinaida Yesenin, the stereotyped image of their ancestor hides another important facet of his personality: he was a good businessman - co-owner of the Stoylo Pegasus cafe and store, helped other poets to publish, was going to buy an apartment for his sisters. It can be seen that the theme of Yesenin's distorted image worries the sisters very much. However, they argue that there is no cult of the poet in the family. There is simply an interest in their family, and there are many interesting people among their ancestors. Anna and Zinaida tell their children about Yesenin only when they ask.

“Interest must be born inside,” Zinaida is sure.

Uliana Glebova, granddaughter of Lev Kamenev: "It's time to leave my grandfather alone!"

I am outraged by the slander of the authors of the series against my grandfather! The authors of the series promote a very likely version of Yesenin's death - his murder. They chose some party leaders to be the organizers of the assassination. I don’t know why the authors chose these people and why the authors want to “hang the murder” of Yesenin on them. Kamenev was a humanist. He was basically against violence. Everyone knows the fact that before the October Revolution of 1917, Kamenev and Zinoviev opposed the idea of an armed uprising, but Lenin did not listen to them.

L.B. Kamenev was repressed, shot, and then posthumously rehabilitated. My father, the son of Kamenev, was repressed, spent eight years in camps, and then was rehabilitated. During Kamenev's lifetime, Stalin slanderously accused him of plotting the assassination of Kirov. But the authors of the series went further and came up with a new false accusation against Kamenev. Time to leave my grandfather alone! How much can you engage in slander against him? I would advise the authors of the series to check the facts next time when making historical films.

Natalya Konygina

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