Biography Born in the village of Konstantinovo Ryazan

Biography Born in the village of Konstantinovo, Ryazan province into a peasant family, his father was Alexander Nikitich Yesenin (1873 -1931), mother — Tatiana Titova (1875 -1955). In 1904, Esenin went in Konstantinovsky rural school, then began his studies in a private Church-school teacher. At the end, in the autumn of 1912, Yesenin came to Moscow, worked in a bookstore, and then in the printing house of I. D. Sytin. In 1913 he enrolled as a volunteer at the historical -philosophical Department of the Moscow city people's University named after A. L. Shanyavsky. Worked in the printing office, had contacts with poets Surikov literarymusical circle.

Poems From the first collections of poetry ("Radunitsa", 1916; "Rural meditations", 1918) acted as a subtle lyricist, a master of deep psychologizing landscape, singer of peasant Russia, an expert of folk language and folk soul. In 1919 -1923 he was a group of imaginists. The tragic worldview, mental confusion expressed in cycles "Mare's ships" (1920), "Moscow taverns" (1924), the poem "Black man" (1925). In the poem "Ballad about twenty six" (1924), devoted to the Baku Commissars, the collection of "Soviet Russia" (1925), poem "Anna snegina" (1925) Yesenin aspired to achieve the "commune of rearing Rus", but continued to feel the poet "leaving Russia", "Golden log hut". Dramatic poem "Pugachev" (1921).

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Dead On 28 December 1925 Yesenin was found in a Leningrad hotel "Angleterre" hanging on the pipe steam heating. His last poem, "goodbye, friend, goodbye. . . " was written in this hotel with blood, and according to friends of the poet, Yesenin complained that there is no ink, and he was forced to write in blood Buried on 31 December 1925 in Moscow at the cemetery Vagankovsky.