Yesenin Sergey Alexandrovich

biography

He was born on September 21 (October 3), 1895 in the village of Konstantinovo, Ryazan province, in a peasant family. Among her sisters, Catherine and He was the eldest in Alexander's peasant family Yesenin and Tatiana Titova. Starting in 1904, Sergei received his primary education at the zemstvo college, after studying at which he entered the parish school in 1909, which is now the museum of Russian lyrics.

childhood

It was difficult, the parents ate to make ends meet and sent little Seryozha to his maternal grandparents. The Maieri brothers "Took Care" of Seryozha there. "Uncle Sasha, Vanya and Petya.". Uncle Petya was crazy, Sergei's grandfather threw him out of the attic and he lost his mind.. The whole "terrible" character of Yesenin comes from childhood, when his uncles mocked him, throwing a very young boy into the middle of a pond or when they jumped on a horse and let it gallop across the fields.. It was not uncommon for a nephew to be beaten for blunders. Grandmother Natalia Evtikhyevna treated him more humanely, but also without much care.. Yesenin's mother spent almost all of her childhood in hell knows where.. He took his grandmother for his mother, and his real mother, who lived in the devil's own places for a long time, generally considered just a stranger. Random guests... My father was working in Moscow all the time. He appeared rarely and supported his son imperceptibly, which is why Sergei had resentments towards his father in childhood, but as he grew older, he realized that his father wanted only the best for him.

appearance

Sergei Yesenin was a truly rooted man, where Russian traditions, Orthodoxy and a tender, sacred love of nature intertwined. Of course, moving to the city and a stormy literary career had a significant impact on the worldview of a simple peasant guy. But the lights of the big city could not "kill" the root peasant essence in it. According to the memoirs of contemporaries, Yesenin was outwardly very comely. Charming gentle appearance and sweet manners attracted not only women, but even some men. He was not very tall (168 cm), with a rather dense figure, open blue eyes and blond curly hair. After moving to the city, the poet began to carefully monitor his appearance. I have never allowed myself to go unshaven and unkempt. Moreover, after the arrival of great fame, he became a real dandy and often carried suitcases with different suits and ties.

alcoholism

Sergei Yesenin was a constant instigator of public scandals and a frequent visitor to the police station on charges of drunkenness, debauchery and hooliganism. In the Russian capital alone, 13 criminal cases were opened against him. The poet raised his hand against women who were with him at different times, consumed alcohol and repeatedly ran away from the police. What can be said about Yesenin's drunkenness? As you know, Yesenin did not write poetry, being drunk. He himself told R. Berezov about this, "... after all, I never write drunk." Memoirists wrote about this, in particular I. And Schneider, who claimed that Yesenin really never wrote poetry while drunk. if we talk about alcohol itself, Yesenin, experiencing everything that happened in Russia in his lifetime, confessed to V.S. Chernavsky: "If I hadn't been drinking, could I have survived everything that happened." As for the legends about his unrestrained drunkenness, he said this to his friend V. Boldovkin: "I have the desperate fame of a drunkard and a hooligan, but these are just words, and not such a terrible reality."

relationship with a family from the village

Yesenin regularly got his father, who had to ask his son for financial support more than once.: "Sometimes my father came from the village. He spoke timidly about the need, about the lack of gardens, about bad potatoes, rotten hay. He twisted a sparse hemp beard and wiped his watery red eyes with a dirty rag. Yesenin listened to his father's speeches incredulously, reminded him about rainy summers and hot sunny days during haymaking; about potatoes, which for some reason everyone had, except his father; about the harvest of the Ryazan province is not so bad. The more I remembered, the more angry I became: — You don't want to know anything there, but I'm a purse for you: if I die, you'll cry about the purse, not for me. He pulled a book out from under his pillow and read aloud in his heart about a dealer whose leg was cut off by a locomotive. They carry him to the emergency room, blood is pouring out — a terrible thing, but he keeps asking for his leg to be found, and he keeps worrying that the hidden twenty rubles might not disappear in the boot, on the severed leg. — You're all like that there… My father wiped his watery red eyes with a dirty rag, pinched a thin, crumpled matting on his chin and was silent. In the end, Yesenin gave money and quickly escorted the old man out of Moscow."

Yesenin and the theater

The bohemian life, in which Yesenin was also involved, somehow revolved around the theater... and in the theater. So, Yesenin, during one of the productions of the Maly Theater, penetrated behind the stage and in one of the dressing rooms began to drink wine with Vsevolod Ivanov. When the actress returned to the dressing room, she could not escort the poets out on her own, she had to call the police. Seeing the policeman, Yesenin ran. On the way, he fought twice, but was twisted and brought to the administration office, where they began to draw up a protocol. Having drawn up a protocol, the policeman took the poet out of the theater.

Yesenin and the police

Yesenin did not like the police. Even more, he was afraid of her. He confessed this more than once to the same Ganin. At the same time, Yesenin was a regular in its Moscow branches. In Moscow, the poet was under special control. There was always a plainclothes employee in the cafes he usually visited. The scandals of the poet, which became the logical end of drinking alcohol, invariably led Yesenin to familiar departments. However, Yesenin's cases did not reach the court. The poet's fame and useful acquaintances helped out.

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