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“A truly Russian poet,” as M. Gorky aptly put it, Sergei Yesenin is a subtle master, lyricist, and dedicated all his work to his homeland—Russia.
The quiz “Yesenin’s Creativity” contains 12 questions. All questions have been answered.
Quiz creator: Iris Review
1. Which lines were written by Yesenin?
“Hours and days pass... still the lot of exile
A dungeon weighs me down like a prisoner,
But I’m already dreaming of a blissful moment of meeting,
And a gentle voice repeats about joys..."
“The sun sadly sank into the clouds
The sad aspen does not tremble,
The sky is reflected in a muddy puddle,
And there’s a familiar twist to everything...”
“Again I see the familiar cliff
With red clay and willow branches,
Red oats are dreaming over the lake,
It smells like chamomile and honey from wasps" +
2. Which tree became the national poetic symbol of Russia, thanks to the poet Yesenin?
Willow
Bird cherry
Birch +
3. What is the main element of Yesenin’s creativity?
Nature +
Philosophy
Caucasus
4. What was the name of Yesenin’s first poetry collection?
"Radunitsa" +
"Treryadnitsa"
"Transfiguration"
5. Who is the author of these words?
“Sergei Yesenin is not so much a person as an organ created by nature exclusively for poetry, to express the inexhaustible “sadness of the fields,” love for all living things in the world and mercy.”
Answer: A.M. Bitter
6. During what periods of time was Yesenin a member of the Imagist group?
In 1919–1923+
In 1916-1918
In 1920-1923
7. What are the poet’s favorite trees?
Rowan, linden, bird cherry +
Willow, maple, pine
Oak, alder, spruce
8. In what periodical Were Yesenin's poems first published?
Answer: In 1914 in children's magazine"Mirok" saw the light of Yesenin's poem for the first time.
9. Was “anthropomorphism” inherent in Yesenin (attributing human qualities to animals, objects, phenomena)
Answer: Yesenin developed his own, special, Yesenin “anthropomorphism”:
10. Give Yesenin’s poems, the title of which contains the word “Rus”?
Answer:"Oh, Rus', flap your wings"
"Soviet Rus'"
“Go away, Rus', my dear”
"Rus' is leaving"
11. Yesenin greeted the revolution with enthusiasm. What works, imbued with a joyful premonition of the “transformation” of life, appeared in his work during this period?
Answer:"Jordan Dove"
"Inonia"
"Heavenly Drummer"
12. What are the main directions of Yesenin’s lyrics?
Answer: nature, homeland, village; folklore, universal, philosophical, evangelical motives
– What is the role of writers' unions now?
– I don’t know what the Writers’ Union, of which I am a member, is doing now. I am invited there to reporting and election meetings, nothing more. But I still never vote for anyone. I have always been an antisocial element, which I remain to this day.
– Is there a hierarchy of talent these days?
– Previously, in connection with this issue, we always nodded to the West. After all, in the West, if a person is talented, he follows the steps to success. They know how to distinguish and appreciate talent, since it costs a lot of money and you can make money on it. And in our country, as a rule, the blessings of life went and go to those who know how to bend and break through. IN Soviet era there were less than 20% of real writers in the Writers' Union.
– What about today?
“And today we have mourning every day.” The forests were burning, disasters happen all the time. At the same time, the logic of current life suggests that this is natural. And there’s no time for writing...
– How do you see our future?
– I’m 74 years old, so my future is known. I've already experienced clinical death. Now I can’t hear anything and, as you can see, I speak with difficulty. As for the rest, you need to ask the one who is called God about this. There is a very tense situation in the world right now. It seems that everything is hanging by a thread, there is a crazy acceleration technical progress. The earth is overpopulated with people. And there is no need to blame only politicians for all troubles. Politics is a consequence, not a cause. Man himself destroys his own habitat. Look, as a result of not taking action in time, half of Central Russia burned out.
– What will happen to literature?
– Literature will also burn. Everything is very simple here. And no fate has anything to do with it. The eccentric Mikhail Bulgakov wrote: “Manuscripts don’t burn.” This is not true. They burn, and how! Here's a clear example: how much remains of the great Greek civilization?
Interviewed Vladimir SHEMSHUCHENKO, SAINT PETERSBURG
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Yesenin is being “killed” again and again
Igor PANIN
Several years ago I had the opportunity to participate in a discussion that spontaneously arose in the Central House of Writers. A certain piit, who had just joined the Union of Writers of Russia and on this occasion was defiantly waving a burgundy “crust”, foamed at the mouth and argued that “the GPU killed our Seryozha.” I expressed doubt about this version.
– Haven’t you watched the TV series “Yesenin”? – he asked me angrily.
- Watched.
– And do you still have any doubts that it was a murder?
- Sorry, but they remain. And very big.
The member of the joint venture looked at me as if I were an enemy of the people, stepped aside and glared at me for a long time with his evil gimlet eyes.
“Well, crazy, what will you take?” – a line from Vysotsky’s popular song came to mind.
What am I talking about? In No. 40 " Literary Russia“A voluminous article, covering three pages, was published entitled “Text as a Witness.” The subtitle is even more eloquent: “Who is the author of the poem “Goodbye, my friend, goodbye”?” Intriguing, who would argue. But in vain the reader will strain his brains in the hope that, having completed this work to the end, he will still find out who really was the author of the mentioned poem. There is no answer to this question. But it all comes down to the fact that this text does not belong to Yesenin. That is, the poet was killed, and the poem was written retroactively by another person, so that the version of suicide would look more plausible.
The author of the article, Zinaida Moskvina, as far as I know, is a mathematician. That’s why she approached the topic from the perspective of a mathematician, calculating how many times certain words and phrases appear in Yesenin’s works, and building her theory on the basis of this. Here is a typical example of such “literary criticism”:
“The first feature that catches the eye even after a quick glance at Yesenin’s poems is the small number of eight-line poems. There are only eight of them: five published before 1917 and three in 1925. But the poem “Goodbye, my friend, goodbye” has exactly the same length of eight lines...
Naturally, nothing was known about this to the supposed author of the poem “Goodbye, my friend, goodbye,” since Yesenin’s poems for the last three months of 1925 were published either after his death, or somewhere far away, in the newspaper “Baku Worker” " Therefore, for his fake he chooses a volume of eight lines...
In Yesenin’s seven years, from 1919 to 1925 inclusive, the word “I” appears in 116 of 127 poems, that is, he wrote only 11 poems without the word “I”; Moreover, the last two such poems appeared in early October 1925, and then for almost the last three months of his life, Yesenin did not write a single poem without the word “I”.
Since the alleged author of the poem “Goodbye, my friend, goodbye” did not have at his disposal the collected works of Yesenin, which was published only in 1926, it was almost impossible for him to notice this feature of Yesenin’s poems. It is not surprising that she is not in the poem “Goodbye, my friend, goodbye”...
From here we will draw the following intermediate conclusion: if the author of the poem “Goodbye, my friend, goodbye” was Yesenin, then with a 95% probability he would have chosen a volume other than eight lines, and with a 92% probability this poem would have contained the word "I"…
And there are a great many such conclusions in the article. To be honest, I laughed until my stomach hurt. And all this is written by a serious person, a scientist.
“It is quite obvious that this is a variant of the line “Goodbye, peri, goodbye” from Yesenin’s poem “There are such doors in Khorossan ...”, Moskvina claims.
At the age of 92, the son of the poet Sergei Yesenin, Alexander Yesenin-Volpin, passed away. Having inherited the rebellious spirit of his parents, he lived a long and varied life. “VM” talks about his fate and remembers the poet’s other children.
Different destinies
Multifaceted Volpin
O fellow citizens, cows and bulls!
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Sergei Yesenin. The name of the great Russian poet - an expert on the people's soul, a singer of peasant Rus', is familiar to every person; his poems have long become Russian classics, and on Sergei Yesenin's birthday, admirers of his work gather.
Early years
September 21, 1895, in the village of Konstantinovo Ryazan province Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin, an outstanding Russian poet with a tragic but very eventful fate, was born. Three days later he was baptized in the local church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. Father and mother were of peasant origin. From the very beginning, their marriage did not work out very well, to put it mildly; more precisely, they were completely different people.Almost immediately after the wedding, Alexander Yesenin (the poet’s father) returned to Moscow, where he began working in a butcher shop. Sergei’s mother, in turn, not getting along with her husband’s relatives, returned to her father’s house, where Sergei spent the first years of his life. It was his maternal grandparents who pushed him to write his first poems, because after his father, his mother left the young poet and went to work in Ryazan. Yesenin's grandfather was well-read and educated person, knew many church books, and his grandmother had extensive knowledge in the field of folklore, which had a beneficial effect on the early upbringing of the young man.
Education
In September 1904, Sergei entered the Konstantinovsky Zemstvo School, where he studied for 5 years, although his studies were supposed to last a year less. This was due to the bad behavior of young Seryozha in the third grade. During his studies, he and his mother return to his father's house. After graduating from college future poet receives a certificate of merit.In the same year, he successfully passed the exams for admission to the parish teacher's school in the village of Spas-Klepiki in his native province. During his studies, Sergei settled there, coming to Konstantinovskoye only during the holidays. It was at the training school for rural teachers that Sergei Alexandrovich began to regularly write poetry. The first works date back to early December 1910. Within a week the following appear: “The Coming of Spring”, “Autumn”, “Winter”, “To Friends”. Before the end of the year, Yesenin manages to write more a whole series poems.
In 1912 he graduated from school and received a diploma in the specialty " school teacher certificates."
Moving to Moscow
After graduating from school, Sergei Alexandrovich leaves his native land and moves to Moscow. There he gets a job in Krylov's butcher shop. He begins to live in the same house where his father lived, on Bolshoy Strochenovsky Lane, now the Yesenin Museum is located here. At first, Yesenin’s father was happy about his son’s arrival, sincerely hoping that he would become a support for him and would help him in everything, but after working in the shop for some time, Sergei told his father that he wanted to become a poet and began to look for a job he liked.At first, he distributed the social democratic magazine “Ogni”, with the intention of being published in it, but these plans were not destined to come true, since the magazine was soon closed. Afterwards, he gets a job as an assistant proofreader in the printing house of I.D. Sytin. It was here that Yesenin met Anna Izryadnova, who would later become his first common-law wife. Almost simultaneously with this, he entered the Moscow City People's University. Shanyavsky to the historical and philological cycle, but almost immediately abandons it. Working in a printing house allowed to the young poet reading a lot of books, gave me the opportunity to become a member of the Surikov literary and musical circle.
The poet’s first common-law wife, Anna Izryadnova, describes Yesenin in those years:
He was reputed to be a leader, attended meetings, distributed illegal literature. Pounced on books, that's all free time I read, I spent all my salary on books, magazines, I didn’t think at all about how to live...
The flourishing of the poet's career
At the beginning of the 14th year, Yesenin’s first known material was published in the Mirok magazine. The verse “Birch” was published. In February, the magazine publishes a number of his poems. In May of the same year, the Bolshevik newspaper “The Path of Truth” began publishing Yesenin.In September, the poet again changed his job, this time becoming a proofreader at the Chernyshev and Kobelkov trading house. In October, the magazine “Protalinka” published the poem “Mother’s Prayer,” dedicated to the First World War. At the end of the year, Yesenin and Izryadnova gave birth to their first and only child, Yuri.
Unfortunately, his life will end quite early; in 1937, Yuri will be shot, and as it turns out later, on false charges brought against him.
After the birth of his son, Sergei Alexandrovich leaves his job at the trading house.
At the beginning of the 15th year, Yesenin continued to actively publish in the magazines “Friend of the People”, “Mirok”, etc. He worked for free as a secretary in a literary and musical circle, after which he became a member of the editorial commission, but left it due to disagreements with other members of the commission on the selection of materials for the magazine “Friend of the People”. In February, his first well-known article on literary topics, “The Yaroslavs are Crying,” was published in the magazine “Women’s Life.”
In March of the same year, during a trip to Petrograd, Yesenin met Alexander Blok, to whom he read his poems in his apartment. Afterwards, he actively introduced his work to many famous and respected people of that time, simultaneously establishing profitable acquaintances with them, among them Dobrovolsky A.A., Rozhdestvensky V.A. Sologub F.K. and many others. As a result, Yesenin’s poems were published in a number of magazines, which contributed to the growth of his popularity.
In 1916, Sergei entered the military service and in the same year he published a collection of poems “Radunitsa”, which made him famous. The poet began to be invited to perform before the Empress in Tsarskoe Selo. At one of these speeches, she gives him a gold watch with a chain, on which the state emblem was depicted.
Zinaida Reich
In 1917, while in the editorial office of “The Cause of the People,” Yesenin met the assistant secretary, Zinaida Reich, a woman of very good intelligence who spoke several languages and typewriting. The love between them did not arise at first sight. It all started with walks around Petrograd with their mutual friend Alexei Ganin. Initially, they were competitors and at some point the comrade was even considered a favorite, until Yesenin confessed his love to Zinaida, after hesitating briefly, she reciprocated, and it was immediately decided to get married.At that moment, young people were experiencing serious financial problems. They solved the money problem with the help of Reich's parents, sending them a telegram asking them to send them funds for the wedding. The money was received without any questions asked. The newlyweds got married in a small church, Yesenin picked wildflowers and made a wedding bouquet from them. Their friend Ganin acted as a witness.
However, from the very beginning their marriage went wrong; on their wedding night, Yesenin learns that his beloved wife was not innocent, and had already shared a bed with someone before him. This really touched the poet's heartstrings. At that moment, Sergei’s blood began to leap, and deep resentment settled in his heart. After returning to Petrograd, they began to live separately, and only two weeks later, after a trip to her parents, they began to live together.
Perhaps, playing it safe, Yesenin forces his wife to leave her job from the editorial office, and like any woman of that time, she had to obey, since by that time the family’s financial situation had improved, because Sergei Alexandrovich had already become a famous poet with good fees. And Zinaida decided to get a job as a typist at the People's Commissariat.
For some time, a family idyll was established between the spouses. There were many guests in their house, Sergei organized receptions for them, and he really liked the role of a respectable host. But it was at this moment that problems began to appear that greatly changed the poet. He was overcome by jealousy, and problems with alcohol were added to this. Once, having discovered a gift from an unknown admirer, he caused a scandal, while obscenely insulting Zinaida; later they reconciled, but they could not return to their previous relationship. Their quarrels began to occur more and more often, with mutual insults.
After the family moved to Moscow, the problems did not go away, but on the contrary intensified; the comfort of home, the friends who supported her, were gone, and instead were the four walls of a run-down hotel room. Added to all this was a quarrel with his wife over the birth of children, after which she decided to leave the capital and go to Oryol to live with her parents. Yesenin drowned out the bitterness of parting with alcohol.
In the summer of 1918, their daughter was born, who was named Tatyana. But the birth of a child did not help strengthen the relationship between Yesenin and Reich. Due to rare meetings, the girl did not become attached to her father at all, and in this he saw the “machinations” of the mother. Sergei Alexandrovich himself believed that his marriage had already ended then, but officially it lasted for several more years. In 1919, the poet made attempts to renew the relationship and even sent money to Zinaida.
Reich decided to return to the capital, but the relationship again did not go well. Then Zinaida decided to take everything into her own hands and, without her husband’s consent, give birth to a second child. This became a fatal mistake. In February 1920, their son is born, but the poet is not present at the birth or after it. The boy’s name is chosen during a telephone conversation and they settle on Konstantin. Yesenin met his son on the train when he and Reich accidentally crossed paths in one of the cities. In 1921, their marriage was officially dissolved.
Imagism
In 1918, Yesenin met Anatoly Mariengof, one of the founders of imagism. Over time, the poet will join this movement. During the period of his passion for this direction, he wrote a number of collections, including “Treryadnitsa”, “Poems of a Brawler”, “Confession of a Hooligan”, “Moscow Tavern”, as well as the poem “Pugachev”.Yesenin greatly contributed to the development of imagism in literature silver age. Due to his participation in Imagist actions, he was arrested. At the same time, he had a conflict with Lunacharsky, who was dissatisfied with his work.
Isadora Duncan
Two days before receiving an official divorce from Zinaida Reich, at one of the evenings in the house of the artist Yakulov, Yesenin met the famous dancer Isadora Duncan, who came to open her dance school in our country. She didn't know Russian, she vocabulary consisted of only a couple of dozen words, but this did not prevent the poet from falling in love with the dancer at first sight and receiving a passionate kiss from her on the same day.By the way, Duncan was 18 years older than her beau. But neither the language barrier nor the age difference prevented Yesenin from moving to the mansion on Prechistenka, where the dancer lived.
Soon Duncan was no longer satisfied with the way her career was developing in the Soviet Union, and she decided to return back to her homeland - the United States. Isadora wanted Sergei to follow her, but bureaucratic procedures prevented this. Yesenin had problems obtaining a visa, and in order to get it, they decided to get married.
The wedding process itself took place in the Khamovnichesky registry office in Moscow. On the eve of this, Isadora asked to correct the year of her birth so as not to embarrass her future husband, he agreed.
The wedding ceremony took place on May 2, the couple left in the same month. Soviet Union and went on tour with Yesenina-Duncan (both spouses took this surname) first in Western Europe, after which they had to go to the USA.
The newlyweds' relationship did not work out from the very beginning of the trip. Yesenin was accustomed to special treatment in Russia and to his popularity; he was immediately perceived as the wife of the great dancer Duncan.
In Europe, the poet again has problems with alcohol and jealousy. Having gotten pretty drunk, Sergei began to insult his wife, roughly grabbing her, sometimes beating her. Once Isadora even had to call the police to calm down the raging Yesenin. Each time after quarrels and beatings, Duncan forgave Yesenin, but this not only did not cool his ardor, but, on the contrary, warmed him up. The poet began to speak contemptuously about his wife among his friends.
In August 1923, Yesenin and his wife returned to Moscow, but even here their relationship did not go well. And already in October he sends Duncan a telegram about the final severance of their relationship.
Last years and death
After breaking up with Isadora Duncan, Yesenin’s life slowly went downhill. Regular consumption of alcohol, nervous breakdowns caused by public persecution of the poet in the press, constant arrests and interrogations, all this greatly undermined the poet’s health.In November 1925 he was even admitted to the Moscow clinic state university for patients with nervous disorders. Over the last 5 years of his life, 13 criminal cases were opened against Sergei Yesenin, some of which were fabricated, for example, charges of anti-Semitism, and the other part were related to alcohol-related hooliganism.
Yesenin’s work during this period of his life became more philosophical; he rethought many things. The poems of this time are filled with musicality and light. The death of his friend Alexander Shiryaevets in 1924 pushes him to see the good in simple things. Such changes help the poet resolve the intrapersonal conflict.
Personal life was also far from ideal. After breaking up with Duncan, Yesenin moved in with Galina Benislavskaya, who had feelings for the poet. Galina loved Sergei very much, but he did not appreciate it, he constantly drank and made scenes. Benislavskaya forgave everything, was by his side every day, pulled him out of various taverns, where his drinking buddies got the poet drunk at his own expense. But this union did not last long. Having left for the Caucasus, Yesenin marries Tolstoy’s granddaughter, Sophia. Having learned this, Benislavskaya goes to the physio-dietetic sanatorium named after. Semashko with nervous disorder. Subsequently, after the death of the poet, she committed suicide at his grave. IN suicide note she wrote that Yesenin’s grave contained all the most precious things in her life.
In March 1925, Yesenin met Sofia Tolstoy (granddaughter of Leo Tolstoy) at one of the evenings in the house of Galina Benislavskaya, where many poets gathered. Sophia came with Boris Pilnyak and stayed there until late in the evening. Yesenin volunteered to accompany her, but instead they walked for a long time around Moscow at night. Afterwards, Sophia admitted that this meeting decided her fate and gave her the greatest love of her life. She fell in love with him at first sight.
After this walk, Yesenin often began to appear at the Tolstoys’ house, and already in June 1925 he moved to Pomerantsevy Lane to live with Sophia. One day, while walking along one of the boulevards, they met a gypsy woman with a parrot, who told them a wedding, and during the fortune-telling the parrot took out a copper ring, Yesenin immediately gave it to Sophia. She was incredibly happy with this ring and wore it for the rest of her life.
On September 18, 1925, Sergei Alexandrovich entered into his last marriage, which would not last long. Sophia was as happy as a little girl, Yesenin was also happy, boasting that he had married the granddaughter of Leo Tolstoy. But Sofia Andreevna’s relatives were not very happy with her choice. Immediately after the wedding, the poet’s constant drinking bouts, leaving home, drinking sprees and hospitals continued, but Sophia fought for her beloved until the last.
In the autumn of the same year, a long binge ended with Yesenin’s hospitalization in a psychiatric hospital, where he spent a month. After his release, Tolstaya wrote to her relatives so that they would not judge him, because no matter what, she loved him, and he made her happy.
After leaving the psychiatric hospital, Sergei leaves Moscow for Leningrad, where he checks into the Angleterre Hotel. He meets with a number of writers, including Klyuev, Ustinov, Pribludny and others. And on the night of December 27-28, according to the official version of the investigation, he takes his own life by hanging himself from a central heating pipe with a rope. His suicide note read: "Goodbye, my friend, goodbye."
Investigative authorities refused to initiate a criminal case, citing the poet’s depressive state. However, many experts, both of that time and contemporaries, are inclined to the version of Yesenin’s violent death. These doubts arose due to an incorrectly drawn up report on the inspection of the suicide site. Independent experts found traces of violent death on the body: scratches and cuts that were not taken into account.
When analyzing documents from those years, other inconsistencies were discovered, for example, that you cannot hang yourself from a vertical pipe. A commission created in 1989, after conducting a serious investigation, came to the conclusion that the poet’s death was natural - from strangulation, refuting all the speculation that was very popular in the 70s in the Soviet Union.
After the autopsy, Yesenin’s body was transported by train from Leningrad to Moscow, where on December 31, 1925 the poet was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery. At the time of his death he was only 30 years old. They said goodbye to Yesenin at the Moscow Press House; thousands of people came there, even despite the December frosts. The grave is still there today, and anyone can visit it.
A year ago he was shown on TV: in the pale, thin old man it was impossible to recognize the features of the golden-haired poet; and it was also difficult to recognize the famous dissident. They pestered him with questions about his father; the old man clearly wanted to sleep. And suddenly - a glimpse, a joke, a sharp word. Alexander Sergeevich seemed to light up... And it immediately became clear what he was like. Amazing, bright... He passed away quite recently - on March 16th.
Different destinies
Sergei Yesenin had countless novels. And four children. The eldest son, Georgy Izryadnov (from Anna Izryadnova), after school entered the aviation technical school, then joined the army, served in Far East. In 1937 he was shot as a terrorist - he had just turned 22 years old.
From Zinaida Reich, Sergei Yesenin had a son, Konstantin (1920 - 1986) and a daughter, Tatyana (1918 - 1992). They also had a chance to experience grief. Konstantin went through the entire Great Patriotic War and earned three Orders of the Red Star. In civilian life he was engaged in sports journalism. Tatyana also became a journalist, the author of books about her parents and Meyerhold (Tatiana saved Meyerhold’s archive by hiding it in her dacha).
Multifaceted Volpin
O fellow citizens, cows and bulls!
What have the Bolsheviks brought you to...
...But a terrible war will begin,
And other times will knock...
These lines were written by Alexander Yesenin-Volpin. He is certainly a multifaceted person. Talented - on the verge of insanity. He was a famous mathematician, human rights activist, and dissident.
And also a poet. Although for us, first of all, Alexander Sergeevich Volpin is the son of the great Russian poet Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin.
There, in the north, there is a girl too...
These famous lines from “Shagane” - “There, in the north, there is a girl too. She looks an awful lot like you. Maybe he’s thinking about me…” - dedicated to Nadezhda Volpin, poetess. Sergei Yesenin had a vivid affair with her, which never developed into marriage.
She was too rebellious, Nadezhda. The poet met her in a cafe on Tverskaya in 1919. It was the second anniversary October Revolution; In honor of the holiday, poets gathered to read poetry. And Sergei suddenly “turned on the star,” as they would say now. He said: “I don’t want to perform!” Then a fan of his work, the beautiful Nadenka Volpin, approached him. And she asked me to read poetry! Sergei replied: “For you - with pleasure!” I read poetry, was successful... They started dating, but at first Nadezhda did not respond to Yesenin’s advances. All of Moscow was gossiping about his Don Juan list. And Nadezhda was a girl of strict rules. He gave her a book with an ambiguous signature: “To Nadezhda Volpin with hope.” And she later wrote in her memoirs about how he besieged her for three years. She gave herself to Yesenin in the spring of 1922, which Yesenin told about in a drunken company. “I crushed this peach!” - he boasted.
And she answered: “It won’t take long to crush a peach, but you’ll gnaw the pit with your teeth!” “Ruffy!” - Yesenin laughed. That was the kind of relationship it was. Love-hate. They quarreled over poetry.
Yesenin even thought about marrying the rebellious Nadenka, but demanded that she leave poetry. When she admitted to him that she was pregnant, Sergei did not show joy. He already had children... Proud Volpin left for Leningrad and gave birth to a boy on May 12, 1924. Yesenin saw him only once. Nadezhda broke off all relations with the poet.
Dissident
The son of Yesenin and Volpin fully inherited the rebellious spirit of his parents. In 1949, he became a candidate of mathematical sciences, at the same time he was arrested for the first time for writing “anti-Soviet poetry” and sent for compulsory treatment to a psychiatric clinic... The psychiatric hospital was replaced by exile to Karaganda. But it was impossible to break him. Upon returning, he began to engage in human rights activities. And again he was treated. And so - for more than ten years. Then - exile.
In 1972, Volpin emigrated to the United States, where he worked at the University at Buffalo and then in Boston. He professed skepticism: he denied all theories that could not be confirmed scientifically. Because Volpin was genius mathematician. And I didn’t take anything on faith. Dissident Vladimir Bukovsky once said that the disease for which Volpin was treated all his life is called pathological truthfulness. Alexander Sergeevich Volpin planned to live 120 years. But he died at the age of 92. God bless, as they say, everyone...
Musical and poetic performance
Few poets have a destiny that so easily becomes a legend. They create this legend themselves - during their lifetime. This is exactly how two great Russian poets of the 20th century - Sergei Yesenin and Vladimir Vysotsky - created their destiny. In terms of expression, emotional intensity, and dramatic verse, they have no equal, and this brings them closer and puts them side by side. Yesenin and Vysotsky are also united by a pronounced singing and musical beginning...
“His songs are sung everywhere - from our safe living rooms to prison.” So in 1925 Soviet classic Leonid Leonov wrote about Yesenin. But the statement can be fully attributed to Vysotsky. Both are self-made men. Through their poetry, music and musicianship we will talk about their lives and fate.
The evening will feature civil-patriotic lyrics by S. Yesenin and military songs by V. Vysotsky.
Speaking Vyacheslav Grigoriev.
Ticket price - 250 rub.
Tickets can be purchased at the museum box office or online. The number of tickets is limited.
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Venue - B. Strochenovsky Lane, 24, building 2
Directions: metro station Serpukhovskaya 9, Dobryninskaya 5 or Paveletskaya 2 (then 5 - 10 minutes on foot).
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Dear guests and community members!
I invite you to take part in a quiz on the life and work of Sergei Yesenin.
Test your knowledge!
If you wish, you can make playcasts with your answers.
In this case, everyone who completes the work will receive a gift!
Well, let's go!
1. Where was Sergei Yesenin from?
2.Which lines belong to Yesenin’s pen?
* “Hours and days are passing... still the lot of exile
A dungeon weighs me down like a prisoner,
But I’m already dreaming of a blissful moment of meeting,
And a gentle voice repeats about joys..."
* “The sun sadly sank into the clouds
The sad aspen does not tremble,
The sky is reflected in a muddy puddle,
And there’s a familiar twist to everything...”
* “Again I see the familiar cliff
With red clay and willow branches,
Red oats are dreaming over the lake,
It smells like chamomile and honey from wasps"
4. The meeting with which poet determined the poet’s work?
5. Which famous dancer was Yesenin’s muse?
6. Which tree became the national poetic symbol of Russia, thanks to the poet Yesenin?
Willow
Bird cherry
Birch
7. What is the main element of Yesenin’s creativity?
Nature
Philosophy
Caucasus
8. What was the name of Yesenin’s first poetry collection?
"Radunitsa"
"Treryadnitsa"
"Transfiguration"
9. Who is the author of these words?
“Sergei Yesenin is not so much a person as an organ created by nature exclusively for poetry, to express the inexhaustible “sadness of the fields,” love for all living things in the world and mercy.”
10. Which poem is this excerpt from:
11. During what periods of time was Yesenin a member of the Imagist group?In 1919-1923
In 1916-1918
In 1920-1923
12. What are the poet’s favorite trees?
Rowan, linden, bird cherry
Willow, maple, pine
Oak, alder, spruce
13. In which periodical were Yesenin’s poems first published?
14.What is the name of the poem in which Yesenin talks about the bereavement of his dog’s puppies?
15. Continue the line:
“I don’t regret, I don’t call, I don’t cry,
Everything will pass,...”
16. Give Yesenin’s poems, the title of which contains the word “Rus”?
17. Yesenin greeted the revolution with enthusiasm. What works, imbued with a joyful premonition of the “transformation” of life, appeared in his work during this period?18. What are the main directions of Yesenin’s lyrics?
19. In which poem does Yesenin call himself a brawler and a charlatan?
20. Where does this passage come from?
"Do you remember
Of course, you all remember
How I stood
Approaching the wall
You walked around the room excitedly
And something sharp
They threw it in my face."
21. What was the name of the poet’s second wife?
22. Which poem is this excerpt from:
“Dying is nothing new in this life,
But life, of course, is not newer.”
23. Who called Sergei Yesenin “The Ultimate Russian Poet”?Literary quiz on the works of S.A. Yesenin
Compiled by E.Yu. Malinina
teacher of Russian language and literature
1 stage Refer to the poet's biography.
1. Mother walked through the forest in her bathing suit.// The nurse gasped, and then... And when was the poet born?
2. On the bank of which river was Yesenin born?
3. What did the poet say about his origin? “My father is a peasant, but I...” Who?
4. Who did Yesenin’s parents want to see when they chose a certain one for him? educational institution?
5. In what year was Yesenin drafted into the army?
6. What was the name of Yesenin’s first collection of poems?
7. About what literary direction Yesenin wrote: it (the literary school) had no basis and died by itself.
8. Who from famous poets helped Yesenin at the beginning of his creative path?
9. With whom did Yesenin go on a trip abroad in May 1922?
10. "S" new family It’s unlikely that it will work out, everything here is filled with the great old man” - what is discussed in this letter.
2 stage Finish the lines that have become aphorisms
1. How few roads have been traveled...
2. You can’t see faces face to face...
3. And animals, like our smaller brothers...
4. But if the devils were nesting in the soul...
5. A fire of red mountain ash is burning in the garden...
6. If there are no flowers in winter...
7. I will say there is no need for heaven...
8. A destined separation...
9. Dying is nothing new in this life...
10. You are as simple as everyone else...
Stage 3 Yesenin’s natural world is unusually diverse, remember:
1. With whom did you want to marry a white rose on earth?
2. “I don’t wear a top hat for women...” But for what and for whom?
3.What picture is depicted in “Sorokoust” in order to show that the steel cavalry defeated the living horses?
4. What does the poet ask Kachalov’s dog?
5. “The golden grove dissuaded…” in what language?
Stage 4 Which poems were included in the collection “Moscow Tavern” from those listed?
A) You remember, of course you remember everything...
B) I don’t regret, I don’t call, I don’t cry..
B) Honey, let’s sit next to each other...
D) Years have emerged from the darkness again...
D) I have one more fun left...
E) Rash, harmonic. Boredom... Boredom...
G) It makes me sad to look at you...
Stage 5 Which of the listed stanzas belong to Yesenin’s pen, and to whom do others belong?
1. Don’t wake up what’s been dreamed of
Don't worry about what didn't come true.
Too early loss and fatigue
I had the opportunity to experience in my life
2. The flower is dried out and smellless
I see forgotten in the book.
And now with a strange dream
My soul is filled
3. Goodbye, my friend, goodbye.
My dear, you are in my chest.
Destined separation
Promises a meeting ahead...
4. You see that the sky is gray
It just hangs and sticks to your eyes.
Forgive me that I don't believe in God,
I pray to him at night
5. And chained by strange intimacy,
I'm looking at dark veil
And I see the enchanted shore
And the enchanted distance...
6. Midday heat in the valley of Dagestan
With lead in my chest I lay motionless.
The deep wound was still smoking,
Drop by drop my blood oozed out
7. Today my youth has faded away,
Like a maple tree rotting under the windows.
But I remembered the girl in white,
For whom there was a postman dog
8. You don’t love me, you don’t regret me,
Am I a little ugly?
Without looking in the face, you are thrilled with passion,
Hands down on your knees
Answers:
Gave birth
Peasant son
teacher
1916
Radunitsa
Imagism
A. Blok
Isadora Duncan
About marriage to Sofia Tolstoy
…how many mistakes have been made
…big things can be seen from a distance
…never hit me on the head
…it means angels lived there
…but he can’t warm anyone
…then there is no need to regret them
…give me my homeland
… promises a meeting ahead
…but living, of course, is not newer
…like a hundred thousand others in Russia
With a black toad
To give oats to mares
The foal tries in vain to catch up with the train
Give me your paw, Jim, for luck...
You lick her hand gently
Birch's cheerful tongue..
Stage 5
1,3,4,7,8
2 – A. Pushkin
5 – A. Blok
6 – M. Lermontov
