Exhibitions of the S. A. Yesenin House-Museum and the "Yesenin Center"

About exhibition

In the literary-memorial section of the house-museum exhibition you can see S. Yesenin’s personal belongings, manuscripts and publications issued during his lifetime, rare documents, and photographs of the poet and his circle. Using an unusual artistic solution, the museum’s displays recreate the atmosphere in which the poetry was born. The emphasis is on S. A. Yesenin’s Moscow period of life and work, while his entire creative path is also traced. The diptych exhibition concept at the "Yesenin Center" directs visitors immediately to two major milestones in Russia’s history. Two exhibition halls tell about 20th-century national history and the roles of father and son Sergey and Konstantin Yesenin in two major wars — the First World War and the Second World War. The exhibition "Train No. 143", located in the first hall, immerses visitors in the atmosphere of a carriage of a wartime sanitary train from the First World War and tells about Sergey Yesenin’s military service and his creative work from 1914 to 1916. The display focuses on Sergey Yesenin’s poetry and the poet’s domestic environment during that period. The exhibition "Front-line Soldier Konstantin Yesenin", presented in the second hall, is centered on the memory of Konstantin Yesenin’s heroism — the son of Sergey Yesenin and Zinaida Reich — who, despite his youth, took up the defense of the Motherland during the Great Patriotic War. The exhibition links military feats with the cultural heritage of the Yesenin and Reich families through Konstantin Sergeevich’s personal effects, letters and photographs, as well as historical materials reflecting the role of art and literature in wartime.