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Sergei Yesenin


Born
in Konstantinovo, Russian Empire, Russian Federation
October 03, 1895

Died
December 28, 1925

Genre
Poetry

Influences
Alexander Blok, Nikolai Klyuev, Andrei Bely ...more


Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin [Сергей Александрович Есенин], 1895-1925, sometimes spelled as Esenin, was a Russian lyric poet. He is one of the most popular and well-known Russian poets of the 20th century, known for "his lyrical evocations of and nostalgia for the village life of his childhood - no idyll, presented in all its rawness, with an implied curse on urbanisation and industrialisation."

Born of peasant parents, he received very little formal education, and although he later traveled quite extensively it was the pre-revolution countryside of his youth that served as inspiration for most of his poetry. Yesenin initially supported the Bolshevik revolution, thinking that it would prove beneficial to the peasant class, but he became dise ...more

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Average rating: 4.3 · 8,058 ratings · 264 reviews · 256 distinct works • Similar authors
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Selected Poems
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Confessions of a Hooligan
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4.46 avg rating — 248 ratings — published 1921 — 17 editions
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Selected Poetry
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4.51 avg rating — 237 ratings — published 1925
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Полное собрание сочинений
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Pesmi
4.29 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 1957 — 5 editions
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Черный человек
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Анна Снегина
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Jesenjin: Lirika (Celokupna...
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“Ako jednom odeš, nemoj se okrenuti, jer ako se okreneš moraš se vratiti, a ja ne želim da se vratiš odlazeći.”
― Sergei Yesenin
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“Not sorry, not calling, not crying
All will pass like smoke of white apple trees
Seized by the gold of autumn,
I will no longer be young.”
― Sergei Yesenin
tags: calling, life-changing, russian-poetry, sorrow
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“„U oluji i buri kraj nedaća svih, uz teške gubitke i tugu kletu, biti prirodan, nasmejan i tih najveća je umetnost na svetu.”
― Sergei Yesenin
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