Sergei Yesenin was a great Russian poet, whose name is widely known not only in Russia. But his personal life is shrouded in almost the same mystery as his death. But some of his women are still remembered ...
Anna Izryadnova
He met her when he worked at the Sytnikov printing house. Young and hopeful Yesenin came to conquer Moscow, but was faced with the fact that no one recognized him as a poet. It was with the help of Anna Izryadnova that he managed to publish his poem for the first time. She became his first woman. Their relationship developed rapidly and rapidly.
In March 1914, it became clear that the girl was expecting a baby. Anna had to leave her parents, she and Sergey began to live together. Izryadnova really loved him, forgave him everything: the search for inspiration in the Crimea for several months, lack of money when he only wrote poetry and did not work. In December, Yesenin took Anna to the hospital. For several months he was an exemplary husband and father. But, in the end, children's crying, poverty, a tired wife weary the poet. Sergei leaves for Petrograd. After he returned to her several times, called for him, knowing that Anna would not go anywhere with her child. In 1916, they parted completely.
The poems were dedicated to Anna:
- "I put to your bed ..."
- "The red wings of the sunset go out .."
Zinaida Reich
An unusually beautiful 23-year-old Zinaida worked in the editorial office of the party newspaper Delo Naroda. It was there that Yesenin met her, who went there on business. In July, the poet’s friend Ganin invites Sergei to Konshino. Zinaida goes behind them.
Both friends looked after the girl. Seeing that Ganin is becoming more persistent, Yesenin makes a proposal to Reich and she agrees. They got married near Vologda. Zina began to live: she earned enough for two, and the poet could create without hindrance. But this did not stop him from arranging terrible jealousy scenes for her. Sergei loved her “in Russian”: he beat his pregnant wife, and then lay on his feet and prayed for forgiveness. She left for her parents in Oryol and in 1918 gave birth to a daughter. She called Tanya, in honor of the poet's mother. She returned to her husband with her daughter. Scandals and beatings resumed. When she was pregnant with her second child, Zinaida, who was again beaten by her husband, left him forever. After phoned that he chose a name for his son. So their relationship ended, but the marriage was dissolved only in 1921.
It is Zinaide that one of Esenin’s most famous poems, “Letter to a Woman,” as well as “Flowers Tell Me - Goodbye ...” is dedicated.
Galina Benislavskaya
November 4, 1920 in the Great Hall of the Conservatory held the evening "The Trial of Imaginists." Galina was sitting at the very scene. Yesenin's poems captured her. Since then, she began to go to all evenings where Yesenin could appear. She lived by meeting him. She first became his favorite in 1921. After he left her for the dancer Isadora Duncan. He gave Galina a Bible with underlined words:
And I found that a woman is bitter than death, because she is a network, and her heart is strong, her hands are fetters; the good before God will be saved from her, and the sinner will be caught by her.
Benislavskaya started a mental disorder. She was treated in a sanatorium in Pokrovsky-Streshnevo. At that time, Galina was sure that she would have survived the poet’s death more easily than his romance with Duncan. But that was not so. She loved him unrequitedly, giving all of herself, did not ask for anything in return and waited for him to see a woman in her.
The second time he called her lover in 1923, when he left Duncan. But then again threw it for Tolstoy. In December 1926, Galina shot herself while standing next to Yesenin's grave. On the monument to Benislavskaya they wrote "Faithful Galya."
In 1925, Yesenin dedicated a poem to Benislavsky “I remember, my love, I remember ..”. It is also believed that the work “The Dog of Kachalov” is dedicated to her.
Isadora Duncan
She is an American dancer, he is a Russian poet. She is 44, he is 26. They should not have met. But when Isadora first heard him at a recital, she could no longer forget. They fell in love at first sight, passion captured them. It was not important for them that they speak different languages: the lovers understood each other without words. A few days later Yesenin moved his belongings to the Duncan mansion on Prechistenka.
Everyone thought it was the most beautiful love story. But then Yesenin began to drink and go into binges. Isadora looked for him in the taverns. As a result, she could not stand his drunkenness and said that she wanted to marry him, she only wanted to be. When Isadora needed to leave, he followed her as her husband. But abroad, he was only the husband of Isadora Duncan, and not the poet Sergei Yesenin. Bored, he again washed down, began to beat his wife, for a walk. Yesenin demanded to return to Russia. But the return to their homeland did not stop scandals and drunkenness. Then Duncan left for Paris, waiting for her husband to follow her. But she received only a telegram that he was married and happy.
Isadore Duncan poet dedicated poems:
- “Sing, sing. On the damn guitar ... "
- “Rash, harmonica! Boredom ... Boredom ... ".
Sophia Tolstaya
The granddaughter of the great classic became the last woman in Yesenin's life. They met a year before his death. Like all relations of the poet, these also developed rapidly. Already in July 1925 they played a wedding and went to the Caucasus to rest. But Sergey remained himself: he was drinking godlessly, he was wasting all his money on alcohol. Sophia only shrugged and said that he was just sick. She tried to distract him from drinking companions and presented the idea of creating her own magazine. They seriously took up this matter, in the end, Tolstaya became almost the secretary of the poet.
But even though the magazine captured him, Yesenin was lost. He no longer hid his disgust for Sonya, saying that he had never loved her. She began to complain to her friends about her husband. It became clear that Sergei needed treatment. In November, he was sent to a hospital. But from there he fled to Leningrad. On December 28, 1925 he was found dead at the Angleterre Hotel. All his wives, except Duncan, were at the funeral.
Sophia Tolstoy is dedicated to the poem "It is Seen, It Is Ever Bound Forever ..".
In the life of the poet there were many girls. Everyone loved him so much that they did not see his flaws. Shortly before his death, Yesenin admitted to a friend that he loved only two women in his life. First, Zinaida Reich, and then Isadora Duncan. All others were a huge mistake. According to the poet, he loved art much more than women.