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62-634: Sergei Yesenin was born in village of Konstantinovo in Ryazan County , Ryazan Governorate of the Russian Empire (now Rybnovsky District , Ryazan Oblast ) to a peasant family. His father was Alexander Nikitich Yesenin (1873–1931), his mother's name was Tatyana Fyodorovna (nee Titova, 1875–1955). Both his parents spent most of their time looking for work, father in Moscow , mother in Ryazan , so at age two Sergei

124-524: A Christian publication in opposition to Marxist publications or those which were being financed by the USSR . Lazarevsky remained the editor-in-chief of the publication until 1953. He was replaced by Sergei Vodov , who headed the editorial office until 1968. During this remarkable period, the publication was authored by extraordinary writers such as Boris Zaitsev , Ivan Bunin , Ivan Shmelev , Nina Berberova , Gaito Gazdanov and many others. From 1968 to 1978,

186-428: A TV serial simply titled Sergey Yesenin , based on the novel, was shown on Channel One Russia , with Sergey Bezrukov playing Yesenin. Facts tending to support the assassination hypothesis were cited by Stanislav Kunyaev and Sergey Kunyaev in the final chapter of their biography of Yesenin. Enraged by his death, Mayakovsky composed a poem called To Sergei Yesenin , where the resigned ending of Yesenin's death poem

248-521: A co-editor. The magazine started actively discuss latest political, social and religious reforms. Lavrov was still a stuff member but now his works were published not that often. One specific feature of Russkaya Mysl was the Bibliography section which informed the readership of all that was new in Russian literature and journalism. The journal also ran its own The Scientific review and The Modern Art sections,

310-607: A collection of the best articles of the newspaper entitled From Stalin to Putin: 60 Years of Russian History . The presentation of the book took place at the 2007 Russian Economic Forum . Since 2006, Russkaya Mysl has been published in London as Russian Mind . In 2011, the publication was returned to the historical format of the 1880 magazine. Since 2016, the journal has been published both in Russian and in English. Due to administrative difficulties, which were caused by Brexit , followed by

372-633: A constitutional-democratic orientation. Struve fervently supported the February Revolution , but he perceived the October Revolution as a catastrophe for the country and was hostile to the Bolshevik , whom he viewed as usurpers. In connection with this, the magazine stopped being published in Moscow in 1918. Since 1921, the magazine has continued to be published abroad; but the last of the monthly issues

434-455: A daughter Tatyana and a son Konstantin. The parents subsequently quarreled and lived separately for some time prior to their divorce in 1921. Tatyana became a writer and journalist and Konstantin Yesenin would become a well-known soccer statistician. Yesenin supported the February Revolution . "If not for [it], I might have withered away on useless religious symbolism," he wrote later. He greeted

496-432: A farewell for relatives and friends of the deceased was also arranged. He was buried on 31 December 1925, in Moscow's Vagankovskoye Cemetery . His grave is marked by a white marble sculpture. There is a theory that Yesenin's death was actually a murder by OGPU agents who had staged it to look like a suicide. The novel Yesenin: Story of a Murder by Vitali Bezrukov , is devoted to that version of Yesenin's death. In 2005,

558-569: A granddaughter of Leo Tolstoy . In May, what proved to be his final large poem Anna Snegina came out. During the year, he compiled and edited The Works by Yesenin in three volumes which was published by Gosizdat posthumously. On 28 December 1925, 30-year-old Yesenin was found dead in his room in the Hotel Angleterre in Leningrad. According to Wolf Ehrlich, Yesenin's final poem, Goodbye my friend, goodbye ( До свиданья, друг мой, до свиданья ),

620-655: A mark on the history of Russkaya Mysl. After the collapse of the USSR, and the fall of the Iron Curtain , the publication reoriented itself to rallying Russian-speaking communities abroad and restoring ties between compatriots and the Motherland. In 1991 the publication faced severe financial difficulties. Many sponsors, including the United States Department of State , declined to renew the sponsorship-contract. This forced

682-462: A monthly basis both in Russian and in English. The modern edition follows the traditions of the magazine laid down in 1880 by its founder, Vukol Mikhailovich Lavrov . At the time of its first publications, Russkaya Mysl, (originally: Russian Thought) , adhered to moderate constitutionalism – the idea which paved the way for the ideological and organizational creation of the Cadet Party . In 1918

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744-532: A short trip to Samarkand. In the fall of 1921, while visiting the studio of painter Georgi Yakulov, Yesenin met the Paris-based American dancer Isadora Duncan , a woman 18 years his senior. She knew only a dozen words in Russian, and he spoke no foreign languages. Nevertheless, they married on 2 May 1922. Yesenin accompanied his celebrity wife on a tour of Europe and the United States. His marriage to Duncan

806-521: Is being destroyed, and the approaching socialism is totally different from the one I was dreaming of," he wrote in an August 1920 letter to his friend Yevgeniya Livshits. "I never joined the RKP , being further to the left than them," he maintained in his 1922 autobiography. Artistically, the revolutionary years were exciting time for Yesenin. Among the important poems he wrote in 1917–1918 were "Prishestviye" (The Advent), "Preobrazheniye" (Transformation, which gave

868-533: Is countered by these verses: "in this life it is not hard to die, / to mold life is more difficult." In a later lecture on Yesenin, he said that the revolution demanded "that we glorify life." However, Mayakovsky himself would commit suicide on 14 April 1930 at the age of 36. Yesenin's suicide triggered an epidemic of copycat suicides by his mostly female fans. For example, Galina Benislavskaya, his ex-girlfriend, killed herself by his graveside in December 1926. Although he

930-433: Is known for being the birthplace of poet Sergei Yesenin . Konstantinovo had a population of 369 in 2002 and 359 in 2010. This Ryazan Oblast location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Russkaya Mysl Russian Mind ( Russian : Русская мысль , romanized :  Russkaya Mysl ; French – La Pensée Russe ) is a pan-European sociopolitical and cultural magazine, published on

992-562: Is likely they became lovers. Later in 1915, Yesenin became a co-founder of the Krasa literary group and published numerous poems in the Petrograd magazines Russkaya Mysl , Ezhemesyachny Zhurnal , Novy Zhurnal Dlya Vsekh , Golos Zhizni and Niva . Among the authors he met later in the year were Maxim Gorky , Vladimir Mayakovsky , Nikolai Gumilyov and Anna Akhmatova ; he also visited painter Ilya Repin in his Penaty. Yesenin's rise to fame

1054-661: Is named in Yesenin's honor. Anna Snegina (Yesenin's poem translated into 12 languages; translated into English by Peter Tempest) ISBN   978-5-7380-0336-3 Collection of Sergey Yesenin's Poems in English: Konstantinovo, Rybnovsky District, Ryazan Oblast Konstantinovo ( Russian : Константиново ) is a rural locality (a village ) in Kuzminsky Rural Settlement, Rybnovsky District , Ryazan Oblast , Russia. Population: 359 ( 2010 Census ) ; 369 ( 2002 Census ) ; Konstantinovo

1116-781: The European Union . Russian Mind is a partner of Roszarubezhtsentr under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia in the field of promoting the Russian language, a partner of the Fund for Support and Protection of the Rights of Compatriots Living Abroad. The magazine is available in retailers, and by subscription in the countries of the European Union , as well as by subscription in Russia , United States , Israel , Japan and Australia . The founder of

1178-605: The Imaginists' Manifest. In February he, Marienhof and Vadim Shershenevich , founded the Imaginists' publishing house. Before that, Yesenin became a member of the Moscow Union of Professional Writers and several months later was elected a member of the All-Russian Union of Poets. Two of his books, Kobyliyu Korabli (Mare's Ships) and Klyuchi Marii (The Keys of Mary) came out later that year. In July–August 1920, Yesenin toured

1240-553: The November issue of 1893. In 1911, the magazine was also criticized by the Church after it published material dedicated to the memory of Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy . Because of this, Russkaya Mysl was excluded from the dean's library by the pastoral meeting of the Vyazma city clergy . In 1906, after Goltsev's death, Alexander Kisevetter became the editor-in-chief; he invited Pyotr Struve as

1302-953: The Pandemic, the board of directors decided to relocate back to Paris and, in 2021, Russian Mind again began to be published there. Now headquartered in 8th district, and continuing to be published monthly, Russian Mind stays true to its mission of being a beam of cultural enrichment for broad-minded individuals. Russkaya Mysl had an eclectic taste, tending to provide a tribune to authors ignored or shied by other magazines and newspapers. In it appeared works by such authors as Nikolai Leskov , Konstantin Sluchevsky , Alexey Apukhtin , Count Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov , Grigory Danilevsky . Both Marxism followers, 'economic materialists' and narodniks here were equally welcomed, as well as writers who attempted to make peace between warring ideological and literary factions. The magazine's Domestic Review ran under

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1364-675: The Russian South, starting in Rostov-on-Don and ending in Tiflis , Georgia . In November 1920, he met Galina Benislavskaya, his future secretary and close friend. Following an anonymous report, he and two of his Imaginist friends, brothers Alexander and Ruben Kusikovs, were arrested by the Cheka in October but released a week later on the solicitation of his friend Yakov Blumkin . In the course of that year,

1426-557: The University he became friends with several aspiring poets, among them Dmitry Semyonovsky, Vasily Nasedkin, Nikolai Kolokolov and Ivan Filipchenko. Yesenin’s first marriage (which lasted three years) was in 1913 to Anna Izryadnova, a co-worker from the publishing house, with whom he had a son, Yuri. 1913 saw Yesenin becoming increasingly interested in Christianity, biblical motives became frequent in his poems. "Grisha, what I am reading at

1488-645: The actress Augusta Miklashevskaya to whom he dedicated several poems, among them those of the Hooligan's Love cycle. In the same year, he had a son by the poet Nadezhda Volpina. Alexander Esenin-Volpin grew up to become a poet and a prominent activist in the Soviet dissident movement of the 1960s. Since 1972, till his death in 2016, he lived in the United States as a famous mathematician and teacher. As Yesenin's popularity grew, stories began to circulate about his heavy drinking and consequent public outbursts. In autumn 1923, he

1550-464: The attic but, thanks to the authors who supported us completely voluntarily, we managed not to miss a single issue of the newspaper. For two years, I was, literally rushed off my feet in search of funds. I went around all the Parisian publications, and many publishing houses, explaining that Russkaya Mysl had already become part of the historical heritage of France. However, I could not find any support. In

1612-506: The children's magazine Mirok (Small World). More appearances followed in minor magazines such as Protalinka and Mlechny Put . In December 1914 Yesenin quit work "and gave himself to poetry, writing continually," according to his wife. Around this time he became a member of the Surikov Literary and Music circle. In 1915, exasperated with the lack of interest in Moscow, Yesenin moved to Petrograd . He arrived to Petrograd on 8 March and

1674-509: The colonel's offer to write (with Klyuyev) and have published a book of pro-monarchist verses, and spent twenty days under arrest as a consequence. In March 1917, Yesenin was sent to the Warrant Officers School but soon deserted Kerensky 's army. In August 1917 (having divorced Izryadnova a year earlier) Yesenin married for a second time, to Zinaida Raikh (later an actress and the wife of Vsevolod Meyerhold ). They had two children,

1736-500: The command of colonel D.N. Loman. On 22 July 1916, at a special concert attended by the Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna (the train's patron) and her daughters, Yesenin recited his poems "Rus" and "In Scarlet Fireglow". "The Empress told me my poems were beautiful, but sad. I replied, the same could be said about Russia as a whole," he recalled later. His relationships with Loman soon deteriorated. In October, Yesenin declined

1798-643: The editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Irina Alekseevna Ilovaiskaya-Alberti, to begin to look for new sources of funding. Eventually the Roman Catholic Church and the Soros Foundation announced that they would help the legendary publication to weather those hard times. By the early 2000s, Russkaya Mysl was again on the verge of closure. The editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Irina Vladimirovna Krivova , has described this period as follows: ‘By 2001, we were completely bankrupt, and they really wanted to close

1860-465: The end, the people who showed interest in our publication turned out to be Russian businessmen.’. Since 2005, Victor Lupan has been the head of the editorial board and a regular contributor to Russkaya Mysl . In 2006, within the framework of the ‘Homecoming’ program, the Parisian archives of the newspaper were donated to the Russian State Library . In the same year, Russkaya Mysl published

1922-400: The fated parting foretell That again we’ll meet up someday. Let no words, no handshakes ensue, No saddened brows in remorse, – To die, in this life, is not new, And living’s no newer, of course. According to his biographers, the poet was in a state of depression and committed suicide by hanging. After the funeral in Leningrad, Yesenin's body was transported by train to Moscow, where

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1984-758: The grandmother whom he also remembered as a highly religious woman who used to take him to every single monastery she chose to visit. He had two younger sisters, Yekaterina (1905–1977), and Alexandra (1911–1981). In 1904 Yesenin joined the Konstantinovo zemstvo school . In 1909 he graduated from it with an honorary certificate, and went on to study in the local secondary parochial school in Spas-Klepiki . From 1910 onwards, he started to write poetry systematically; eight poems dated that year were later included in his 1925 Collected Works. In all, Yesenin wrote around thirty poems during his school years. He compiled them into what

2046-1381: The guidance of Viktor Goltsev , S.A.Priklonsly, A.A.Golovachyov, Leonid Polonsky . Close to this section were the Sketches of Russian Life that Nikolai Shelgunov and later the Sketches of the Provincial Life by the economist Ivan Ivanyukov. For ten years Goltsev was also the head of the Foreign Review section. Among the fiction writers published by the magazine were Mikhail Albov , Nikolai Astyrev, Kazimir Barantsevich , Pyotr Boborykin , Nikolai Vagner , Vsevolod Garshin , Maxim Gorky , Dmitry Grigorovich , Alexey Zhemchuzhnikov , Nikolai Zlatovratsky , Nikolai Petropavlovsky (S.Karonin), Vladimir Korolenko (he debuted here with "Makar's Dream"), Alexey Tikhonov (A.Lugovoy), Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak , Dmitry Merezhkovsky , Nikolai Minsky , Alexander Sheller , Semyon Nadson , brothers Vasily and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko , Filipp Nefyodov , Vasily Ogarkov, Yakov Polonsky , Ignaty Potapenko , Ilya Salov , Nadezhda Merder (N.Severin), Konstantin Stanyukovich , Gleb Uspensky , Semyon Frug , Anton Chekhov , Alexander Ertel . Russkaya Mysl regularly published works by literary critics Mikhail Gromeka (he

2108-445: The latter specializing mostly in the Moscow theatrical life. Russkaya Mysl was often called the organ of the Cadet Party , but Struve himself denied this: ‘The period of certain magazines which tend to represent certain political views, in my opinion, is over. [...] Whether in philosophy or in religion, there should not be a place for “partisanship”.’ After the 1905 revolution, the magazine became more right-wing, while maintaining

2170-406: The letter's subscription obligations. This, as well as dropping the standard price from 16 to 12 rubles per issue, helped its popularity rise. Russkaya Mysl’s adherence to moderate constitutionalism led to the magazine receiving two warnings: the first – for the ‘Petersburg Letters’ in the December issue of 1883, the second – for the article by V.A. Goltsev ‘Sociology on an Economic Basis’ in

2232-456: The literary elite, adoration by ordinary people, and sensational behavior, all contributed to the enduring and near mythical popular image of the Russian poet. Ukrainian composer Tamara Maliukova Sidorenko (1919-2005) set several of Yesenin’s poems to music. German composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann included Yesenin's poetry in his Requiem für einen jungen Dichter ( Requiem for a Young Poet ), completed in 1969. The Ryazan State University

2294-618: The magazine Russkaya Mysl, Vukol Mikhailovich Lavrov , was born on September 23, 1852, in a merchant family in the small rural town of Yelets . It is known that he completed only three classes of the parish school , which, however, did not prevent him from reading extensively and becoming a highly educated individual. After meeting with his fellow writers in Moscow , Vukol Lavrov decided to publish his own magazine. Having received permission to publish Russkaya Mysl in 1879, he closed his father’s trading business in Yelets and invested all his funds in

2356-655: The magazine was closed by the Bolsheviks as a bourgeois press organ. From 1921 to 1923 it was published in Sofia , Prague and in Berlin . The last issue of Russian Thought , in the format of a magazine, was published in Paris in 1927. In 1947 Russkaya Mysl was revived as a weekly newspaper . The publication was first issued in Paris and did not relocate its headquarters until 2006. In that year,

2418-469: The magazine, the first issue of which was published in 1880. In 1880–1885 the editor of Russkaya Mysl was Sergey Yuryev who brought it close to the Slavophiliac movement. After Yuryev's death, Viktor Goltsev became the editor; under his guidance the magazine made a turn to the left and provided safe haven for many contributors of the recently closed Otechestvennye Zapiski , taking upon itself some of

2480-540: The meaning of form while Blok and Klyuev taught him lyricism. It was Klyuyev who introduced Yesenin to the publisher Averyanov, who in early 1916 released his debut poetry collection Radunitsa which featured many of his early spiritual-themed verse. "I would have eagerly relinquished some of my religious poems, large and small, but they make sense as an illustration of poets' progress towards the revolution," he would later write. Yesenin and Klyuyev maintained close and intimate friendship which lasted several years, and indeed it

2542-515: The moment is the Gospel and find a lot of things which for me are new," he wrote to his close childhood friend G. Panfilov. That was also the year when he became involved with the Moscow revolutionary circles: for several months his flat was under secret police surveillance and in September 1913 it was raided and searched. January 1914, Yesenin's first published poem "Beryoza" (The Birch Tree) appeared in

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2604-790: The news and problems of Russian emigration, but everything that was happening in the Soviet Union (which had already begun to open-up), and most importantly, its dissident democratic movement’. During this period, representatives of the ‘third wave’ of emigration and, also, human rights activists, Western Slavists, Sovietologists and dissidents were published in Russkaya Mysl . Such authors and Russian thinkers as Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Joseph Brodsky, Andrei Sakharov, Mikhail Koryakov, Vladimir Maksimov, Natalia Gorbanevskaya, Mikhail Geller, Sergey Dovlatov, Alexander Nekrich, Victor Suvorov and Alain Besancon left

2666-410: The newspaper was headed by Zinaida Shakhovskaya . This period saw the emergence of the human rights movement in the USSR. Defending the values of democracy, Russkaya Mysl published works of dissidents . In 1978, Irina Ilovaiskaya-Alberti became the editor-in-chief of Russkaya Mysl . Sergei Grigoryants noted that, with the arrival of the new editor-in-chief, ‘the newspaper's attention was no longer

2728-512: The newspaper. We (several journalists of the newspaper) amassed the money that had been paid to us as redundancy benefits, and we bought the newspaper from our French publisher for the price of the underlying assets. It was impossible to allow Russkaya Mysl to disappear without a trace. For two years, we, the remaining five or six people, worked for free – writing and editing from home. We said goodbye to our historical premises, in which we had “lived” for almost 30 years […] We lived, one might say, in

2790-592: The next day met Alexander Blok at his home, to read him poetry. He was quickly acquainted with fellow-poets Sergey Gorodetsky , Nikolai Klyuev and Andrei Bely who were well known. Blok was especially helpful in promoting Yesenin's early literary career, describing him as "a gem of a peasant poet" and his verse as "fresh, pure and resounding", even if "wordy". The same year he joined the Krasa (Beauty) group of peasant poets which included Klyuyev, Gorodetsky, Sergey Klychkov and Alexander Shiryayevets, among others. In his 1925 autobiography Yesenin said that Bely gave him

2852-574: The publication of three of Yesenin's books were refused by publishing house Goslitizdat. His Triptych collection came out through the Skify Publishers in Berlin . Next year saw the collections Confessions of a Hooligan (January) and Treryaditsa (February) published. The drama in verse Pygachov came out in December 1921, to much acclaim. In May 1921, he visited a friend, the poet Alexander Shiryaevets, in Tashkent , giving poetry readings and making

2914-414: The publishing house settled in London . In 2011, Russkaya Mysl returned to the historical format of 1880, and once again became a magazine. Since 2016, the magazine has been published in English under the title of Russian Mind. Since 2021, the magazine has again been published in Paris. This decision was made by the editorial board of Russian Mind in connection with the exit of Great Britain from

2976-673: The publishing house Трудовая Артель Художников Слова (the Labor Artel of the Artists of the Word) which reissued (in six books) all that he had written by this time. In September 1918, Yesenin became friends with Anatoly Marienhof , with whom he founded the Russian literary movement of imaginism . Describing their group's general appeal, he wrote in 1922: "Prostitutes and bandits are our fans. With them, we are pals. Bolsheviks do not like us due to some kind of misunderstanding." In January 1919, Yesenin signed

3038-568: The rise of the Bolsheviks too. "In the Revolution I was all on the side of the October, even if perceiving everything in my own peculiar way, from a peasant's standpoint," he remembered in his 1925 autobiography. Later he criticized the Bolshevik rule, in such poems as "The Stern October Has Deceived Me". "I feel very sad now, for we are going through such a period in [our] history when human individuality

3100-642: The title to the 1918 collection), and "Inoniya". In February 1918, after the Sovnarkom issued the " Socialist Homeland is in Danger! " decree-appeal, he joined the esers ' military unit. He actively participated in the magazine Nash Put (Our Way), as well as the almanacs Skify (Скифы) and Krasny Zvon (in February his large poem "Marfa Posadnitsa" appeared in one of the latter). In September 1918 Yesenin co-founded (with Andrey Bely, Pyotr Oreshin, Lev Povitsky and Sergey Klychkov)

3162-606: The village of Mardakan , where he published a collection of poems, in the "Krasny Vostok" printing house, and was published in a local publishing house. There is a version that here, in May 1925, the poetic “Message to the Evangelist Demyan” was written. Still nowadays, there is a street and a museum house in the memory of the poet in the Mardakan, Azerbaijan. In early 1925, Yesenin met and married Sophia Andreyevna Tolstaya (1900–1957),

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3224-657: Was arrested and interrogated four times. In February, he entered the Sheremetev hospital, then was moved into the Kremlin clinic in March. Nevertheless, he continued to make public recitals and released several books in the course of the year, including Moskva Kabatskaya . In August 1924 Yesenin and fellow poet Ivan Gruzinov published a letter in Pravda , announcing the end of the Imaginists. In 1924-1925, Yesenin visited Azerbaijan , and stayed in

3286-568: Was arrested in Moscow twice and underwent a series of enquiries from the OGPU secret police. Other accusations against Yesenin and three of his close friends, fellow poets, Sergey Klytchkov, Alexei Ganin and Pyotr Oreshin, were made by Lev Sosnovsky , a journalist and close Trotsky associate. The foursome retorted with an open letter in Pravda and, in December, were cleared by the Writers' Union burlaw court . It

3348-690: Was brief and in May 1923, he returned to Moscow. In his 1922 autobiography, Yesenin wrote: "Russia's recent nomadic past does not appeal to me, and I am all for civilization. But I dislike America intensely. America is a stinking place where not just art is being murdered, but with it, all the loftiest aspirations of humankind. If it's America that we are looking up to, as [a model for our] future, then I'd rather stay under our greyish skies... We do not have those skyscrapers that's managed to produce up to date nothing but Rockefeller and McCormick , but here Tolstoy , Dostoyevsky , Pushkin and Lermontov were born." In 1923, Yesenin became romantically involved with

3410-570: Was later suggested, though, that Yesenin's departure to the Caucasus in the summer of 1924 might have been a direct result of the harassment by the NKVD . Earlier that year, fourteen writers and poets, including his friend Ganin, were arrested as the alleged members of the (apparently fictitious) Order of the Russian Fascists, then tortured and executed in March without trial. In January–April 1924, Yesenin

3472-418: Was meteoric; by the end of the year he became the star of St Petersburg's literary circles and salons. "The city took to him with the delight a gourmet reserves for strawberries in winter. A barrage of praise hit him, excessive and often insincere," Maxim Gorky wrote to Romain Rolland . On 25 March 1916, Yesenin was drafted for military duty and in April joined a medical train based in Tsarskoye Selo , under

3534-567: Was moved to the nearby village Matovo, to join Fyodor Alexeyevich and Natalya Yevtikhiyevna Titovs, his relatively well-off maternal grandparents, who essentially raised him. The Titovs had three grown-up sons, and it was they who were Yesenin's early years' companions. "My uncles taught me horse-riding and swimming, one of them... even employed me as hound-dog, when going out to the ponds hunting ducks," he later remembered. He started to read aged five, and at nine began to write poetry, inspired originally by chastushkas and folklore, provided mostly by

3596-516: Was one of Russia's most popular poets and had been given an elaborate state funeral , some of his writings were banned by the Kremlin during the reigns of Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev . Nikolai Bukharin 's criticism of Yesenin contributed significantly to the banning. Only in 1966 were most of his works republished. Today Yesenin's poems are taught to Russian schoolchildren; many have been set to music and recorded as popular songs. His early death, coupled with unsympathetic views by some of

3658-414: Was published in 1927 in Paris . After a twenty-year break, Russkaya Mysl was brought back into existence, but in the format of a newspaper. The first editor of the new Russkaya Mysl was the pre-revolutionary Russian journalist Vladimir Lazarevsky and, following World War II , the newspaper acquired a new official sponsor in the person of the US State Department . The newspaper positioned itself as

3720-510: Was supposed to be his first book which he titled "Bolnye Dumy" (Free Thoughts) and tried to publish it in 1912 in Ryazan, but failed. In 1912, with a teacher’s diploma, Yesenin moved to Moscow, where he supported himself working as a proofreader's assistant at Sytin 's printing company. The following year he enrolled in Shanyavsky Moscow City People's University to study history and philology as an external student (вольнослушатель), but had to leave it after eighteen months due to lack of funds. In

3782-688: Was the one who gave the publicity to the unknown parts of Lev Tolstoy 's Confession ), Alexander Kirpichnikov, Orest Miller , Nikolai Mikhaylovsky , Viktor Ostrogorsky , Mikhail Protopopov , Alexander Skabichevsky , Vladimir Spasovih, Nikolai Storozhenko , Semyon Vengerov . Regularly contributed to the magazine were anthropologist and ethnographist Dmitry Anuchin, historians Pavel Vinogradov, Mykola Kostomarov , Pavel Milyukov , Robert Vipper, Yevgeny Karnovich, Nikolai Kareev, Vladimir Gerye, Grigory Dzhanshiyev , Mikhail Korelin, climatologist Alexander Voyeykov, economists Ivan Ivanyukov, Andrey Isayev, Lev Zak, Nikolai Kablukov, Nikolai Chernyshevsky (who under

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3844-498: Was written by him the day before he died. Yesenin complained that there was no ink in the room, and he was forced to write with his own blood. До свиданья, друг мой, до свиданья. Милый мой, ты у меня в груди. Предназначенное расставанье Обещает встречу впереди. До свиданья, друг мой, без руки, без слова, Не грусти и не печаль бровей, – В этой жизни умирать не ново, Но и жить, конечно, не новей. Farewell, my good friend, farewell. In my heart, forever, you’ll stay. May

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