Esenin S.A. (1895-1925), poet

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ESENIN Sergey Alexandrovich (1895-1925, Leningrad), poet. Graduated from the Zemskoe (provincial) Fourth-Class School in the village of Konstantinovo (1909) and Second-Class Teachers' College in the village of Spas-Klepiki (1912). For the first time he came to Petrograd in March 1915 (lived from October 1915 to March 1918), joined the group of the so-called new peasants' poets, become acquainted with A. A. Blok (on the day of arrival), N. A. Klyuev, M. Gorky, S. M. Gorodetsky, Ivanov-Razumnik, A. Bely and others, published his first poem collection Radunitsa (1916). Lived at Gorodetsky's flat (14 Malaya Posadskaya Street), then with Klyuev at the flat of the latter's sister K.A. Rasshcheperina (149 Fontanka River Embankment). In 1916-17 did military service in medical sanitary train № 143 of Tsarskoe Selo, then in Tsarskoe Selo Sick Quarters № 17. In 1917-18 lived at 33 Liteiny Avenue (memorial plaque). After he had moved to Moscow in the spring of 1918, he paid brief visits to Petrograd. According to the official version, he committed suicide in the Angleterre Hotel (memorial plaque) in Leningrad on 28 December 1925. Buried in Moscow. In 1995 the monument to the Esenin was placed in the Tavrichesky Garden (sculptor A.S. Charkin, architect F.K. Romanovsky, S.L. Mikhailov). The name of Esenin was given to library № 10 of Frunzensky District and in 1974 a Street in Ozerki was named after him.

References: Дитц В. Ф. Есенин в Петрограде - Ленинграде. Л., 1990; Над Невой твоей...: Юбил. сб. к 100-летию С. А. Есенина. СПб., 1996; Бунатян Г. Г. Город муз: Лит. памят. места г. Пушкина. СПб., 2001. С. 246-261.

T. M. Dvinyatina. Blok G.P.
Charkin Albert Serafimovich
Esenin Sergey Alexandrovich
Gorky Maxim (Alexey Maximovich Peshkov)
Gorodetsky Sergey Mitrofanovich
Klyuev Nikolay Alexeevich
Mikhaylov Sergey Leonidovich
Rasshcheperina K.A.
Romanovsky Felix Karlovich
Esenina Street/Saint Petersburg, city
Fontanka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 149
Liteiny Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 33
Malaya Posadskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 14
Бунатян Г. Г. Город муз: Лит. памят. места г. Пушкина. СПб., 2001
Дитц В. Ф. Есенин в Петрограде - Ленинграде. Л., 1990
"Над Невой твоей...": Юбил. сб. к 100-летию С. А. Есенина. СПб., 1996 Angleterre Hotel