Sergei Yesenin was born on September 21, 1895 in Ryazan Konstantinovo village . Came from a peasant family. However, his mother was married to a captive , so when Sergei was two, the family split up . The boy was given to the education of my grandmother and grandfather on the maternal side .My grandmother told Yesenin a lot of folk songs, poems , rhymes , fairy tales and legends, which became the " backbone" of his poetic nature.In Yesenin Konstantinov graduated with honors from the local zemstvo school. After that, he continued his studies in the church- teacher school campus Savior Klepiki . Yesenin was trained at teacher credentials , but this did not appeal to his profession , and in 1912, he went with his father to work in Moscow .In Moscow, he first worked in a butcher's shop , then - in the bookstore.In 1913 , he joined the Faculty of History and Philosophy of the University im.A.Shenyavskogo . Studied there for one and a half years . Yesenin began writing poetry at age nine , but then it looked more like works of folk songs and folk tunes . Since 1916, Yesenin worked as a nurse in the Tsar's military hospital train of the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. Throughout the career Yesenin's main theme was Rodina.Esenin died Dec. 28, 1925 . The official cause of death - suicide. He was found hanging from a pipe in a Leningrad hotel "Angleterre" .