Esenin Sergei Aleksandrovich (1895 - 1925.)
Russian poet.
Was born in the village of Konstantinovo, Ryazan province, in a peasant family. Since childhood, brought up by his grandfather on his mother, a man of generous and well-to-do, a scholar of Church books. He graduated from a four-formed agricultural College, then the Church teachers ' school in Spas-Клепиках. In 1912. Yesenin moved to Moscow, where he served as a merchant of his father. He worked in a printing house, entered the literary-musical workshop of the Surikov, attended lectures at the people's University of Шанявского.
For the first time the poetry of Yesenin appeared in the Moscow journals in 1914. In 1915 he went to Petrograd, met there with A. The Block With. Gorodetsky, N. Kluyev and other poets. 'll release the first collection of his poems - «Radunitsa». Collaborated in the SRS magazines, typing in these poems, «the Transfiguration», «i.e. for each month», «Инония».
In March 1918, the poet again he settled in Moscow, where was one of the founders of the group имажинистов. In 1919-1921, traveled a lot (Solovki, Murmansk, the Caucasus, the Crimea). Worked on the dramatic poem «Pugachev», in the spring of 1921 he went to Orenburg steppes, reached Tashkent.
In 1922-1923, together with the who lived in Moscow American dancer And. Duncan, who became the wife of Esenin, visited Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, Canada and the United States. In 1924-1925, three times staying in Georgia and Azerbaijan, where he worked with great enthusiasm and created «a Poem about twenty-six», «Anna Снегину», «Persian tunes».
The October revolution gave voice Esenina amazing power. He expressed in his work and the joy of liberation, and a breakthrough to the future, and tragic collisions critical time.
The best works of Esenin vividly depicting the spiritual beauty of the Russian people. Recognized as the finest lyric, the wizard of Russian landscape. Tragically died in 1925 in Leningrad.
According to the majority of the biography of the poet version, Yesenin in a state of depression (after a month of treatment in a mental hospital) committed suicide (hanged). For a long time other versions of the event were expressed, but at the end of the 20-th century began to arise version of the murder of a poet with subsequent faked his suicide, and the possible causes were cited as the personal life of the poet, and his creativity.