Sergey Esenin

{IntroductionThis year is dedicated to literature, so today we want to tell you about the great Russian poet Sergey Yesenin whose 120th birthday we have celebrated this year.

QUIZThe life and work of Sergey Yesenin

When was Sergey Yesenin born? a) 1895 b) 1893c) 1889d) 1898

Which tree has become a symbol of Russia thanks to Yesenin's lyrics?

a) Willowb) Oakc) Bird cherryd) Birch

Which Yesenin's poem has a female name?

a)"Anna Karenina"b) "Olesya"c) "Anna Snegina"d) "Princess Mary"

When was Yesenin's first collection of poems "Radunitsa" published?

a) 1914 b) 1915 c) 1916 d) 1918

When did Yesenin move to Moscow?a) 1912 b) 1913 c) 1911 d) 1915

In which city did Yesenin first meet A.Blok? a) Tashkentb) St. Petersburg c) Moscowd) Samarkand

When did the greatest Russian poet die ?a)1924b)1932c)1925d)1935

{ 1895-1912Sergey Yesenin was one of the most popular and well-known Russian poets of the 20th century. He was born on October 4, 1895 in Ryazan province in Konstantinovo. Here in this little village awoke the poets great talent that showed to the whole world the astronishingly charming beauty of Russia. He spent most of his childhood in Konstantinovo. He began to write poetry at the age of nine. From 1904 to 1909 he went to the village school. At the age of 14, he entered the Spas-Klepiki teacher training school about 30 kilometers away. On completing studies there he received the grade of elementary school teacher. Now it is the Museum of S.Yesenin in Spas-Klepiki. During this period he started to write poetry seriously. In 1912 he went to Moscow to pursue his writing career.

{ 1915 In 1915, he moved to Petrograd, where he became acquainted with fellow-poets Alexander Blok, Sergey Gorodetsky, Nikolai Klyuev and Andrei Bely and became well known in literary circles. Blok was especially helpful in promoting Yesenin's early career as a poet. Yesenin said that Bely gave him the meaning of form while Blok and Klyuev taught him lyricism. S. Yesenin and A. Blok

{ 1916In 1916, Yesenin published his first book of poems, Radunitsa. Through his collections of poignant poetry about love and the simple life, he became one of the most popular poets in Russia.

{ Scarlet rays the rising sun weaves into the lake

{Hey there, Russia, mother country...

{ 1916-1917From 1916 to 1917, Yesenin was drafted into military duty, but soon after the October Revolution of 1917, Russia exited World War I. Believing that the revolution would bring a better life, Yesenin briefly supported it, but soon became disillusioned. He sometimes criticised the Bolshevik rule in such poems as The Stern October Has Deceived Me.

{ 1917-1919In September 1918, Yesenin founded his own publishing house called the "Labor Company of the Artists of the Word". Together with Anatoly Marienhof, they founded the Russian literary movement of imaginism.He considered the year of 1919 the best time of his life. He was given control of a bookstore, a publishing concern, and The Stall of Pegasus, a bohemian literary caf.

A. Marienhof

{ 1917-1923In August 1917 Yesenin married to Zinaida Raikh. They had two children, a daughter Tatyana and a son Konstantin. In the fall of 1921, Yesenin met the Paris-based American dancer Isadora Duncan, a woman 18 years his senior. She knew only a dozen words in Russian, and he spoke no foreign languages. They married on May 2, 1922. Yesenin accompanied his celebrity wife on a tour around Europe and the United States. His marriage to Duncan was brief and in May 1923, he returned to Moscow.

I. Duncan

{ No regret I feelNo regret I feel, no pain, no sorrow,Blossom blows away, a song is sung.Overcome by autumn gold, tomorrowI myself shall be no longer young.

{ 1924-1925In 1924 Yesenin went to the Caucasus, where he wrote the delightful cycle of lyrical poems entitled Persian Themes remarkable for its artistic expressiveness.In 1925 Yesenin met and married his fourth wife, Sophia Andreyevna Tolstaya, a granddaughter of Leo Tolstoy.

S. Tolstaya

{ Shaganeh, my divine ShaganehShaganeh, my divine Shaganeh!Its the North, I suppose, that inspires me,And to talk of our fields never tires me,Of the rye where the moon shadows play.Shaganeh, my divine Shaganeh!

{ LETTER TO MOTHERStill around, old dear? How are you keeping?I too am around. Hello to you!May that magic twilight ever be streamingOver your cottage as it used to do.

{ 1925In the summer of 1925 Yesenin returned to Moscow. The desire to change his surroundings and get away from his Moscow friends took him to Leningrad at the end of December 1925, where he planned to stay until the summer and then go to see Maxim Gorky in Italy. But these plans were never realized. On the night of December 27, 1925, Yesenin commited suicide in the Hotel Angleterre in Leningrad. A day before his tragic end Yesenin wrote his own blood his farewell.

Tips of blue flame are dancing about,Home expanses are being neglected.It's the first time that Im singing love,For the first time refusing to racket. - S.A.Yesenin{ Tips of blue flame are dancing about

{ Anna Snegina

Like a clown the moon was guffawing.And though my heart had changed, I started to feelMyself strangely caught in the vortexId known as a lad of sixteen.

We parted at dawn every movementAnd glance was mysterious

There is something fine about summerThat brings out the best in us.Maple bare of foliage, freezing in the snowstorm, Why are you bent over as the wind is blowing?Have you witnessed something? Have you heard some tidings?It's as if beyond the village you've gone striding - S.A.Yesenin

{Maple bare of foliage

The life of any poet reflected in his poetry. It was his heart that dictated those wonderful poems, it was Russia to which this poetic belonged, and it is Konstantinovo that will remain an inseparable part of it forever.And even when Around all the planet Hostility of tribes will stop, And lie will get away Then I shall glorify With all my heart and talent The part of our land Which, Rus has as its name - S.A.Yesenin

Thanks for attention!