Esenin, or Yesenin, Sergey Aleksandrovich (1895–1925)
Soviet poet, born in Konstantinovo (renamed Esenino in his honour). He went to Petrograd in 1915, attached himself to the Symbolists, welcomed the Russian Revolution, revived peasant traditions and folklore, and initiated the Imaginist group of poets in 1919. A selection of his poetry was translated in Confessions of a Hooligan (1973). He was married briefly to US dancer Isadora Duncan 1922–23.
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