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"Many women loved me, and I myself loved more than one," Yesenin wrote
How many of them were there – women who shared the joys of love with Yesenin?
The poet took the answer to this question with him to the grave.
We know only a few chosen by him.
Anna IZRYADNOVA.
She was the common law wife of Sergei Yesenin.
They met in the printing house of Sytin in 1913.
They rented an apartment in Moscow, and a year later their son Yuri was born.
His fate was tragic.
At the age of 22, Yuri was shot in the basements of the Lubyanka.
Reich became the legitimate wife of the poet.
Their meeting took place thanks to Yesenin's friend Alexey Ganin, who invited Zinaida and Sergey, who were still unknown at the time, to spend a few days in their homeland.
On the train, Yesenin confessed his love to Reich, they got off at an unnamed station near Vologda and got married in a rural church.
Zinaida Reich gave birth to the poet two children, Tatiana and Konstantin.
Yesenin's loudest and brightest novel.
They understood each other from the first meeting without words.
Yesenin did not know foreign languages, and Isadora did not speak Russian, but immediately fell in love with Sergei with all her heart.
Even the huge age difference did not matter to them: Duncan was 17 years and 8 months older than Yesenin.
They signed in Moscow on May 10, 1922 and went abroad.
But in 1924, their relationship ended.
Sofia TOLSTAYA.
The granddaughter of Leo Tolstoy became the poet's wife at the end of July 1925, although Yesenin was not yet divorced from Duncan.
Galina BENISLAVSKAYA.
The poet's girlfriend shared a shelter with him in the last months of his life.
Her husband did not survive the betrayal and shot himself.
And Galya herself committed suicide on Yesenin's grave on December 3, 1926.
Nadezhda VOLPIN.
She held a special place in Yesenin's life.
Do you remember the last lines from " Shagane..."?
"There's a girl in the north, too.
She looks a lot like you.
Maybe he's thinking about me..."
This is just about her.
Acquaintance.
The first meeting of Nadezhda Volpin with Sergei Yesenin took place in 1919 in a cafe on Tverskaya Street in Moscow.
On the occasion of the second anniversary of October, poets gathered here and read poems.
Yesenin was also supposed to perform, but the poet replied to the entertainer's invitation to go on stage:"I donot want to."
Here Volpin, a passionate admirer of his work, approached Sergei and asked him to read the poems.
Yesenin got up, bowed politely and said :" For you – with pleasure."
Since then, they often met in this literary cafe.
Yesenin often accompanied Nadia home, they talked about poetry.
Yesenin signed the first book presented to Volpin as follows: "To Nadezhda Volpin with hope".
Conquest.
"Yesterday I repelled another furious attack by Yesenin," Volpin writes to the book of memoirs about the poet many years later.
Sergey Yesenin's passion did not find an answer in Nadezhda's soul for almost three years.
She gave herself to him only in the spring of 1922.
Later, in drunken companies, the rake poet will tell how he deprived the unapproachable Hope of virginity.
Here is one of the table conversations:
Yesenin: I crushed this peach!
Volpin: It wonot take long to crush a peach, and you will gnaw the bone with your teeth!
Yesenin: And it's always like that - she's so fluffy!
Here I have deprived a girl of her innocence and I can not get rid of tenderness for her.
Quarrels.
They often quarreled over literary preferences.
Thinking of marrying Volpin, Yesenin set her an indispensable condition: she had to stop writing poetry.
Once at a party of the sculptor Konenkov, Sergei confessed to Nadezhda:
- We are so rarely together.
It's all your fault.
And I'm afraid of you, Nadia!
I know: I can rock to you with a great passion!
Son.
"I told Sergey that there will be a child.
This did not please him, because he already has children.
Although in the conversation I made it clear to him that I did not count on marriage ties," Nadezhda Volpin recalled.
Their son, Alexander Sergeyevich Yesenin, was born on May 12, 1924 in Leningrad.
Father and son were not destined to meet.
The mother did not want to show the child to Yesenin.
Although he constantly asked about it from friends.
Yesenin: What kind of son do I have?
Sakharov (Volpin's friend): As you were in childhood, an accurate portrait of you.
Yesenin: This is how it should be - this woman loved me very much!
Memories of Nadezhda Volpin.
Nadezhda Volpin died on September 9, 1998, just two years before her centenary.
The director of the Voronezh Yesenin Museum, Yegor Ivanovich Ivanov, was friendly with her.
Here are his memories.
- We have met this charming woman twice.
I recorded our conversations on tape.
The first meeting took place on September 30, 1996 in her apartment in Moscow:
- What kind of person was Yesenin in close communication?
- He was very smart, very independent.
With him, I felt like a student with a pathetic bookish mind.
In the last years of her life, Nadezhda Volpin lived with her son's ex - wife, Victoria Pisak.
Victoria and Alexander Volpin Yesenin were forced to separate when he emigrated to the United States.
Now Alexander Sergeevich works at Boton University.
His ex wife.
she took care of her mother in law until the very end.
Nadezhda Volpin herself told how she fell and broke her hip neck.
The doctors did not hope for recovery; but Victoria saved her.
She supported Volpin's interest in life, read her poems and deliberately forgot the words and asked Nadezhda Davydovna to suggest.
Volpin retained her phenomenal memory until her death.
Egor IVANOV, Elena POPOVA
PS The public Museum of Sergei Yesenin is kept in Voronezh on the naked enthusiasm of one person - Yegor Ivanovich Ivanov.
He works for free, although the administration of the Leninsky district could find a small salary for him.
There is still no normal room, because the museum belongs in the center, and not on Chapaev Street.
It is no coincidence that only one person came to the evening of the memory of Nadezhda Volpin the poet Vladimir Kusakin.
"My" No. 49 (212) December 9-15, 1998
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