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For a long time about a girl named Shagane mentioned in the poem cycle Sergei Yesenin“Persian motives”, nothing was known, biographers even suggested that she was a fictional character. However, the researcher of Yesenin’s work V. Belousov managed to find the girl who inspired the poet to create the famous poem “You are mine, Shagane”.
Yesenin was fond of oriental poetry and dreamed of seeing the homeland of Persian lyricists. He was not able to visit Persia itself, but in 1924-1925. he made a trip to the Caucasus. During his stay in Batumi, the poet met a young Armenian teacher, Shagane Talyan. They developed mutual sympathy. Yesenin gave her his collection with a dedicatory inscription, asked her for a photograph as a souvenir, but after his departure from Batumi, their communication ceased, and he made no attempt to resume it. In 1958, V. Belousov found Shagane, and she sent him an autobiography and memories of Yesenin.
Shagane Talyan wrote that she was born into the family of a priest and a teacher. In 1924, at the time of her acquaintance with Yesenin, the girl taught arithmetic at an Armenian school. She could not restore many details of communication with the poet - almost 35 years have passed since then, Shagane did not keep a diary, and some moments were erased from memory. But her memories still contain many interesting facts.
Shagane remembered well how she first saw Yesenin: “One day in December 1924, I left school and headed home. On the corner I noticed a young man above average height, slender, fair-haired, wearing a soft hat and a foreign mackintosh over a gray suit. His unusual appearance caught my eye, and I thought that he was a visitor from the capital. That same day in the evening, Joffe burst into our room with the words: “Katra, Katra, the famous Russian poet wants to meet our Shagane.” Yesenin and Povitsky were with her at that time. We are going. After we met, I suggested that everyone go for a walk in the park.”
Already on the third day of their acquaintance, the poet gave the girl a poem, which later became the most famous from the series “Persian Motifs”: “It was cloudy, a storm was beginning at sea. We said hello, and Yesenin suggested we walk along the boulevard, saying that he didn’t like such weather and would rather read poetry to me. He read “You are my Shagane, Shagane...” and immediately gave me two sheets of checkered notebook paper on which the poem was written. In one of our subsequent meetings, which now took place almost daily, he read a new poem “You said that Saadi...”.”
Yesenin treated the girl with care and attention, their communication was gentle and chaste: “When Yesenin met me in the company of other men, for example, my fellow teachers, he came up himself, got to know them, but always left with me. He always came with flowers, sometimes roses, but more often with violets. On January 4, he brought a book of his poems “Moscow tavern”, with an autograph written in pencil: “My dear Shagane, you are pleasant and dear to me. S. Yesenin. 4.1.25, Batum."
Yesenin was remembered by Shagane as a sensitive and responsive person: “Back then we often met street children, and sometimes he would not leave any of them unattended: he would stop, ask where they were from, how they lived, and give the child money. He sees a stray dog, buys a bun or sausage for it, feeds it and pets it. One day I got sick, and my sister went to work. All three days while I was sick, Sergei Alexandrovich came to me in the morning, prepared tea, talked with me, read poems from the “Anthology of Armenian Poetry.”
Their communication broke off even before the poet left: “Shortly before leaving, he indulged in carousing more and more often and began to visit us less often. In the evening, on the eve of departure, Sergei Alexandrovich came to us and announced that he was leaving. He said that he would never forget me, said goodbye to me tenderly, but did not want me and my sister to see him off. I also did not receive any letters from him. S. A. Yesenin is and will be a bright memory of my life until the end of my days.”
Augusta Miklashevskaya’s memoirs also contain interesting facts about the poet: Shagane Talyan was not a Persian at all, as one might assume when reading Yesenin’s inspired lines, but an ordinary Russian language and literature student from an Armenian school in Batum. The poet saw Shagane when she was leaving school and was simply struck by her oriental beauty. The 24-year-old girl could be another victory for the loving Yesenin. But, despite the fact that she already had a short marriage and early widowhood behind her, Shagane was also distinguished by chastity of soul, which raised their relationship to a completely different, much more sublime level.
Shagane became for the poet the embodiment of all eastern women, their exotic external beauty and even greater spiritual beauty. After an unsuccessful marriage with the world-famous dancer Isadora Duncan, it was this simple Armenian woman who revived in Yesenin’s soul faith in female devotion and purity of thoughts. Almost every day they walked together in the park, the poet gave violets and roses. Already on the third day of meeting him, to the considerable surprise of his beautiful muse, he read to her “You are my Shagane, Shagane” and handed her 2 checkered notebook pages.
Despite the fact that the poem is presented in the form of a love letter, the poet shares his thoughts about his homeland with the “beautiful Persian woman”. The work is built on the contrast of East and North. And although the East is fabulously beautiful, the author prefers his native Ryazan expanses with their endless fields of golden rye.
Parting gift
Leaving the Caucasus, Sergei Yesenin presented Shagane with his new collection of poems, “Persian Motifs,” which he accompanied with the inscription: “My dear Shagane, you are pleasant and dear to me.” Other poems included in it are also connected with the image of the beautiful Armenian woman. Her name appears in the poem “You said that Saadi”; the famous lines “I have never been to the Bosphorus” are dedicated to her. In the poem “There are such doors in Khorossan,” the poet again turns to Shagane, calling her Shaga. The final poem of the cycle, imbued with refined sensuality, “I asked the money changer today,” is also inspired by the bright image of the beautiful Shagane.Apparently, the atmosphere of mutual love that permeates “Persian Motifs” is in fact just a poetic fantasy. However, only a few women were destined to leave such a deep mark in Yesenin’s poetry as the Batumi teacher Shagane Talyan.
During the short life of the great Russian poet Sergei Yesenin, his work was inspired by talented and beautiful women: Isadora Duncan, Galina Benislavskaya, Anna Izryadnova, Nadezhda Volpin, Zinaida Reich and others, but no one left such an indelible impression as the school teacher of Russian language and literature - Shagane Talyan. Her beauty and charm prompted the poet to write a poem, which became one of the most famous and beloved among admirers of his talent.
Shaandukht (Shagane) Ambartsumyan was born in 1900 in Akhaltsikhe (Georgia) into a family of teachers. For Nerses Ambartsumyan and Maria Karakashyan, the girl was a long-awaited child; she was born when they were already over 30. Shagane lost her parents early (due to the consequences of typhus), the girl lost her mother at 11, and her father at 19 years old. Her uncle took her to his place in Batumi and gave her a good education. She graduated from the women's gymnasium in Khashuri, and a year later began teaching at the Armenian school in Tiflis. Among the teachers, Shagane was distinguished by her extraordinary appearance: snow-white skin, light brown hair and big eyes - more than once broke men’s hearts.
In 1921, having won the heart of Tiflis economist Stepan Terteryan, Shagane got married, and a year later gave birth to a son, Ruben (he is a candidate of medical sciences). However, they never managed to live a happy life: Terteryan died at the age of 36 due to lung disease. In 1923, Shagane moved to her cousins in Batumi and continued her teaching career. Note that in addition to teaching, she was very fond of poetry and often went to literary cafes to listen to poems by her favorite poets.
“I lived for these meetings. These evenings brought me special joy.", Shagane told Don magazine in 1964.
In 1924-1925, the Russian poet Sergei Yesenin stayed in Batumi. At that time, it was fashionable to invite poets to their homes for poetry evenings. And the house of the Shagane sisters was no exception. After a meeting between the poet and the young teacher, Yesenin began work on a poem for the collection “Persian motives” - “You are my Shagane, Shagane”. Impressed by the beauty of the Armenian girl, the poet described her in the form of a young Persian woman Shagane from Shiraz. Over time, this collection fell in love with many; among the most memorable poems was "Shagane". Here's how the lines of the famous poem came about:
“Leaving school, I again saw the poet on the same corner. It was cloudy and there was a storm at sea. We said hello, Sergei Alexandrovich suggested we walk along the boulevard, saying that he did not like such weather and would rather read poetry to me. He read “You are my Shagane, Shagane...” and immediately gave me two sheets of checkered notebook paper, on which was written a poem and the signature: “S. Yesenin", she recalled.
It is known from sources that the poet was shocked by the charm of the young teacher and began to court her. In one of his letters, Shagane talks about one of these meetings:
“Sergei Alexandrovich loved to come in the evenings and drink tea with tangerine jam, which he really liked. When I sent him to write poetry, he said that he had already worked enough, and now he was resting. Once I got sick and for three days Yesenin came to visit, prepared tea, talked with me, read poems from the “Anthology of Armenian Poetry.” I don’t remember the content of these conversations, but it can be noted that they were simple and calm.”.
Yesenin read his works to her, took books from her home library and talked to her about the merits of Persian poetry. After living in Batumi for several years, the poet returned to Petrograd, and our heroine left for Tiflis, where she continued to work at school.
“On the eve of his departure, Sergei Alexandrovich came to us and announced that he was leaving. He said he would never forget me. He said goodbye to me, but did not want me and my sister to accompany him. I also did not receive any letters from him. Sergei Alexandrovich exists, and until the end of my days he will be a bright memory of my life.”
Little is known about how her life developed later. In 1930, Shagane married for the second time, to composer Vardges Talyan. And after moving to Yerevan, Shagane no longer worked. She took care of household chores and raising her son, living a full 76 years.
Shagane, you are mine, Shagane!
I'm ready to tell you the field,
About wavy rye under the moon.
Shagane, you are mine, Shagane.
Because I'm from the north, or something,
That the moon is a hundred times bigger there,
No matter how beautiful Shiraz is,
It is no better than the expanses of Ryazan.
Because I'm from the north, or something.
I'm ready to tell you the field,
I took this hair from the rye,
If you want, knit it on your finger -
I don't feel any pain.
I'm ready to tell you the field.
About wavy rye under the moon
You can guess by my curls.
Darling, joke, smile,
Just don’t wake up the memory in me
About wavy rye under the moon.
Shagane, you are mine, Shagane!
There, in the north, there is a girl too,
She looks an awful lot like you
Maybe he's thinking about me...
Shagane, you are mine, Shagane.
Sergei Yesenin’s poem “You are my Shagane, Shagane” was written by the poet in the Caucasus in 1924. The prototype of the main character, after whom the poem is named, is Shagane Talyan, a literature teacher at a Batumi school.
The main theme is longing for one’s own land, love for one’s native Ryazan land, which the poet felt especially keenly while being away from his homeland, where “wavy rye” grows and a huge moon shines over the field. The poet is impressed by the color of the southern land, but his heart is in his native north. He mentions the bright beauty of the East only in passing, again moving on to memories of the expanses of the Ryazan region: “No matter how beautiful Shiraz is / It is no better than the expanses of Ryazan.”
The poet shares his innermost feelings with Shagane, seeing in her a close soul capable of understanding him. That’s why he addresses her so confidentially: Shagane, you are mine... Warmth and trust are enhanced by colloquial expressions and words: “or what,” “terribly similar.” It is impossible to read the text of the poem “You are mine, Shagane” by Yesenin and not be imbued with its subtle lyricism, which is enhanced by the melodious rhythm and sound repetitions of sonorants and vowels. “You are my Shagane, Shagane” is a verse that became the key work of the collection “Persian Motifs”.
Shagane, you are mine, Shagane!
Because I'm from the north, or something,
I'm ready to tell you the field,
About wavy rye under the moon.
Shagane, you are mine, Shagane.
Because I'm from the north, or something,
That the moon is a hundred times bigger there,
No matter how beautiful Shiraz is,
It is no better than the expanses of Ryazan.
Because I'm from the north, or something.
I'm ready to tell you the field,
I took this hair from the rye,
If you want, knit it on your finger -
I don't feel any pain.
I'm ready to tell you the field.
About wavy rye under the moon
You can guess by my curls.
Darling, joke, smile,
Just don’t wake up the memory in me
About wavy rye under the moon.
Shagane, you are mine, Shagane!
There, in the north, there is a girl too,
She looks an awful lot like you
Maybe he's thinking about me...
Shagane, you are mine, Shagane.
