Sergey Yesenin

1. SERGEI ESENIN

ZHUSUPOVA AITGUL
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2. Plan

Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin
Early life
Life and career
Death
Works

3.

• Sergei
Alexandrovich
Yesenin sometimes
spelled as Esenin.
3 October 1895 – 28
December
1925)
was a russian lyric
poet. He is one of
the most popular
and
well-known
Russian poets of the
20th century.

4. Early life

Both his parents spent most of their time
looking for work, father in Moscow, mother in
Ryazan, so at age two Sergei was moved to
the nearby village Matovo, to join Fyodor
Alexeyevich and Natalya Yevtikhiyevna
Titovs, his relatively well-off maternal
grandparents, who essentially raised him. The
Titovs had three grown-up sons, and it was
they who were Yesenin's early years'
companions. "My uncles taught me horseriding and swimming, one of them... even
employed me as hound-dog, when going
out to the ponds hunting ducks," he later
remembered. He had two younger sisters,
Yekaterina (1905—1977), and Alexandra
(1911—1981). n 1912, with a teacher’s
diploma, Yesenin moved to Moscow, where
he supported himself working as a
proofreader's assistant at the Sytin's printing
company. he wrote to his close childhood
friend G. Panfilov. That was also the year
when he became involved with the Moscow
revolutionary circles: for several months his
flat was under secret police surveillance and
in September 1913 it was raided and
searched.

5. Life and career

In January 1914 Yesenin's first published poem "Beryoza" (The
Birch Tree) appeared in the children's magazine Mirok(Small
World). More appearances followed in minor magazines such
as Protalinka and Mlechny Put. In December 1914 Yesenin quit
work "and gave himself to poetry, writing continually,"
according to his wife. Around this time he became a member
of the Surikov Literary and Music circle. In 1915, exasperated
with the lack of interest in his work in Moscow, Yesenin moved
to Petrograd. He arrived at the city on 8 March and the next
day met Alexander Blok at his home, to read him poetry. He
received a warm welcome and soon became acquainted
with
fellow-poets
Sergey
Gorodetsky,
Nikolai
Klyuev and Andrei Bely and well known in literary circles. Blok
was especially helpful in promoting Yesenin's early literary
career, describing him as "a gem of a peasant poet“ and his
verse as "fresh, pure and resounding", even if "wordy". In March
1917, Yesenin was sent to the Warrant Officers School but soon
deserted the Kerensky's army. As Yesenin's popularity grew,
stories began to circulate about his heavy drinking and
consequent public outbursts. In autumn 1923, he was arrested
in Moscow twice and underwent a series of enquiries from
the OGPU secret police.

6. Death

On 28th December 1925, Yesenin was
found dead in the room in the hotel
angletter in St Petersburg. His last
poem
Goodbye
my
friend,
goodbye (До свиданья, друг мой, до
свиданья) according to Wolf Ehrlich
was written by him the day before he
died. Yesenin complained that there
was no ink in the room, and he was
forced to write with his blood.
Farewell, my good friend, farewell.
In my heart, forever, you’ll stay.
May the fated parting foretell
That again we’ll meet up someday.
Let no words, no handshakes ensue,
No saddened brows in remorse, To die, in this life, is not new,
And living’s no newer, of course.

7. Works

The Scarlet of the Dawn (1910)
The high waters have licked (1910)
The Birch Tree (1913)
Autumn (1914)
Russia (1914)
I'll glance in the field (1917)
I left the native home (1918)
Hooligan (1919)
Hooligan's Confession (1920)
I am the last poet of the village (1920)
Prayer for the First Forty Days of the Dead (1920)
I don't pity, don't call, don't cry (1921)
Pugachev (1921)
One joy I have left (1923)
A Letter to Mother (1924)
Tavern Moscow (1924)
Confessions of a Hooligan (1924),
A Letter to a Woman (1924),
Desolate and Pale Moonlight (1925)
The Black Man (1925)
Goodbye, my friend, goodbye (1925) (His farewell
poem)