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Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin
About museum
Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin – a Russian poet and writer. Born in a village in the Ryazan region, he showed poetic talent early and drew inspiration from popular religious poetry and rural life. After the village school and brief training at a teachers' seminary, he moved to Moscow and then to Petrograd, where he quickly entered literary circles. His early poems, published before World War I, reflected themes of loneliness, spiritual searching and rural life. Meeting Alexander Blok and the publication of his first collection Radunitsa in 1916 brought Yesenin instant fame. The peasant poet became a favorite of the capital's bohemia, and his talent and distinctive style caused a sensation. The poet died tragically in Leningrad on December 28, 1925. The official version is suicide by hanging in the Hotel Angleterre. Before his death he wrote a farewell note in blood. Yesenin's death later spawned numerous myths and theories of murder, but none of them have been confirmed. His poetry struck a chord with ordinary readers and was praised by leading literary figures such as Tsvetaeva, Blok and Pasternak.
Музеи, посвящённые персоне
Date of birth
03 October 1895
Date of death
28 December 1925
Occupation
Writer