Children of a genius: How was the fate of three sons and daughter of Sergei Yesenin

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

They did not stop talking and writing about the lifestyle of the Russian poet Sergei Yesenin throughout his life. He loved to drink, he could have a brawl out of the blue. But he was forgiven a lot for his original talent and love for his native land. He never suffered from a lack of female attention to himself. Yesenin was officially married three times, three more women can be called his common-law wives. By the time of his death at the age of 30, the poet managed to become the father of four children.

Yuri Yesenin

The poet's eldest son was born in 1914 in the actual marriage of Sergei Yesenin and Anna Izryadnova. Yesenin at that time was only 19 years old, but, according to the recollections of his young wife, he became a wonderful father. When the wife returned from the maternity hospital, she found the house in perfect order. Yesenin was surprised at his status as a young father, sang lullabies to his son, rocking the baby. True, all this did not interest him for long. A month later, the poet lived separately, occasionally visiting his former lover with his son.

Nevertheless, Yuri simply idolized his father. He knew all his poems, he could recite them from any place. Since his school years, he himself was engaged in writing, but he was embarrassed to show his poems to anyone.

He was arrested in 1936 after being denounced by someone from the general company while serving in the army. The investigator was able to convince the young man to incriminate himself, promising in exchange for this a short term and comfortable serving the sentence for the son of the famous poet. He was shot in 1937, and my mother, until her death in 1976, waited for her son to return, as she was informed about 10 years in prison for him without the right to correspond.

Subsequently, the youngest son of the poet achieved the complete rehabilitation of the elder in 1956.

Tatiana Yesenina

She was born in 1918 in the poet's marriage to Zinaida Reich. The marriage lasted four years, and all this time the spouses either parted or reconciled, until in October 1921 it was finally and officially terminated.

Zinaida Reich, a year later, married an outstanding director Vsevolod Meyerhold, who adopted his wife's children. Yesenin did not forget about his children, he came to visit them. He was frankly proud of Tatyana, telling his friends how sweetly she stomps her foot and notifies everyone that she is Yesenin.

By the time of the murder of her mother and the execution of her stepfather, Tatyana was already married, raised her son, supported her younger brother-student and her husband, whose father was also repressed. During the war, Tatyana, her husband and son were evacuated to Uzbekistan, and after that they stayed there. Tatyana Yesenina became a journalist, worked in the newspaper Pravda Vostoka, and was engaged in scientific editing in publishing houses. Later she initiated the process of rehabilitation of her famous stepfather, wrote books and memoirs about her parents and stepfather. She passed away in 1992.

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Konstantin Yesenin

Zinaida Reich gave birth to Konstantin Yesenin in 1920, in fact, having already parted with her husband. At first, the poet considered his son not his own, his doubts were fueled by numerous rumors, and outwardly the boy did not look like his blond father. Kostya was black-haired, and Sergei Alexandrovich said that Yesenins are not like that.

After the death of his mother and stepfather, Konstantin was supported not only by his sister, but also by his father's first wife, Anna Izryadnova, whom Kostya often called a man of the purest soul.

Konstantin Yesenin fought on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War, was wounded three times, awarded orders and medals. He was able to graduate from a construction institute after the war, and then went from a foreman to a chief specialist of the Gosstroy of the RSFSR, worked as an assistant in the Cabinet of Ministers of the USSR.

The passion for football, which accompanied Konstantin Yesenin's entire life, later became his second profession. He collected a huge amount of statistical material about football and football teams, published several books on football topics. And at the same time he always remembered his father, doing everything so that his name was not consigned to oblivion.

He died in April 1986 in Moscow.

Alexander Yesenin-Volpin

Sergei Yesenin died when his youngest son was not yet two years old. And the poet only saw him twice. Nadezhda Volpina, the mother of the child, was seriously offended by Yesenin, who tried to persuade her to abandon the idea of making him a father for the fourth time.

Alexander Yesenin-Volpin grew up, became a famous mathematician and dissident. Several times he served his sentence in prison and exile, was repeatedly placed on compulsory treatment on a fabricated psychiatric diagnosis. After emigrating from the Soviet Union to the United States, he worked there at universities in Buffalo and Boston, was engaged in scientific research, and proved the theorem that received his name. All his life he wrote poetry, published his works on logic and law.

He died in 2016 in America.

Two people meet, a man and a woman, and destinies intertwine, souls coalesce … And the reason for everything is Love, which unites, for inexplicable reasons, two different people. For what, is it by chance, or is there providence in these meetings, bringing that peace, that painful attraction, with which you cannot, and sometimes you do not want to fight. So they could not resist their feelings, although it seemed that they could connect such different people.