Romance was the meaning of life and a source of inspiration for the blond handsome poet Sergei Yesenin. A favorite of women, he caught courage in relations with them. And the result was newer and newer works, which to this day are haunting the souls of true lovers of Russian poetry.
He married four times, each time leaving in a relationship, as if in a whirlpool. There were fleeting short novels with women. Yesenin's children, like their mothers, suffered from a lack of attention on his part, because poetry occupied all the thoughts and time of this great man. The life of Sergei Alexandrovich once again proves that creative individuals can not fully give themselves to the family, like ordinary people.
This article will discuss how the fate of the descendants of the great poet. Where are the children of Yesenin? What have they dedicated their lives to? What do the poet’s grandchildren do? We will try to answer all these questions below.
The first marriage with Anna Izryadnova. The birth of the eldest son
Yesenin met Anna Romanovna Izryadnova, an educated girl from an intelligent Moscow family, at Sytin’s printing house. She worked as a proofreader, and at first he was a forwarder, and then got the post of assistant corrector. Relations began quickly, and young people began to live in a civil marriage. In 1914, the son of Yesenin and Izryadnova, Yuri, was born. But family life did not stick, and a year after the birth of the child, the couple broke up. The main reason for the break was the life that quickly hit the poet.
It was the first serious relationship, which showed that in long permanent unions the poet’s creative soul sooner or later “asks” for freedom. Yesenin, whose wives and children never felt close to a solid male shoulder, are still happy people. The blood of the greatest of our time flows in their veins. The creator loved each of his children in his own way, tried to help financially, and sometimes visited.
Yesenin did not refuse his son, but due to the fact that the marriage with Izryadnova was not registered, the woman had to seek official recognition of the paternity of the poet after his death in court.
The tragic fate of Yuri Yesenin
Yesenin's children are very attractive in appearance, including Yuri. A stately, smart young man from childhood dreamed of military service. He studied at the Moscow Aviation Technical School, after which he was sent to the Far East for further service. There was a tragic accident, because of which the life of a young man was cut short so early. Yuri on false charges was arrested and taken to Lubyanka. He was charged with involvement in the "counter-revolutionary fascist-terrorist group." At first, he categorically refused his guilt, but as a result of the use of barbaric methods, recognition was knocked out of him. In 1937 he was shot. And after almost 20 years, in 1956, he was posthumously rehabilitated.
Sergey Yesenin and Zinaida Reich
In 1917, the poet marries Zinaida Reich. After a year of living together, their joint daughter Tatyana was born. Relations with the second wife also did not go well. Three years of marriage took place in constant quarrels and quarrels, as a result of which the couple converged and dispersed several times. Yesenin's son and Reich, Konstantin, was born in 1920, when they officially divorced and did not live together. Having become pregnant for the second time, Zinaida expected that in this way she could keep her beloved man close by. However, the rebellious spirit of the poet did not allow Yesenin to enjoy a measured family life.
Vsevolod Meyerhold and Zinaida Reich
Yesenin's children found their second father when the new husband of Zinaida Reich, the famous director Vsevolod Meyerhold, adopted them.
He treated them well and considered them his children. A happy childhood flew by very quickly, and a new shock awaited the grown up Tanya and Kostya. At first, in 1937, Vsevolod Emilievich was arrested and shot. He was accused of international espionage in favor of Japan and England. And after some time the life of their mother, Zinaida Nikolaevna, was cut short. She was brutally murdered in her own apartment under unclear circumstances.
However, the hardships did not prevent the children of Yesenin and Zinaida Reich to walk their life path with dignity and become famous and respected people.
Children of Yesenin and Zinaida Reich: Tatyana
Daughter Tanya, a beauty with blonde curls, so similar to himself, Sergey Alexandrovich loved very much. When she lost her stepfather and mother at the age of twenty, she herself had a small child in her arms (son Vladimir), and her younger brother also remained in her care. Another blow was the decision of the authorities to evict her and the children from her parents' apartment. However, Tatyana, strong in spirit, did not surrender to the will of fate. She managed to save the priceless archive of Meyerhold, which she first hid in a summer house in the Moscow Region, and then, when the war broke out, she deposited it with S. M. Eisenstein.
During the war, during the evacuation, Tatyana ended up in Tashkent, which became her home. The conditions were terrible, she and her family wandered through the streets until Alexey Tolstoy, who knew and loved her father, came to her aid. Being at that time a deputy of the Supreme Council, he made a lot of efforts to knock out a small room in the barracks for Tatyana’s family.
Later, having risen to her feet, Tatyana Sergeevna achieved great success. She was a talented journalist, writer, editor. It was she who initiated the rehabilitation process of her adoptive father Vsevolod Meyerhold. T.S. Yesenina wrote a book that contained her childhood memories of her parents, and published memories of Meyerhold and Reich. The famous researcher of the works of Meyerhold K. L. Rudnitsky admitted that the materials of Tatyana Sergeevna served as the most important source of information about the work of the great director of the last century. Yesenin’s children from Zinaida Nikolaevna Reich, in general, made a lot of efforts to preserve the memory of their father, mother and stepfather.
The daughter of the poet for a long time was the director of the museum S. A. Yesenin. She passed away in 1992.
Konstantin
In 1938, Kostya Yesenin entered the Moscow Civil Engineering Institute. Konstantin, who at the time the war was just 21 years old, immediately decided to volunteer for the front. He went through the hardships of war, was seriously wounded several times, and received three orders of the Red Star. He returned home in 1944 when, after another wound, he was commissated for health reasons.
He successfully proved himself in sports journalism, was engaged in sports statistics a lot. From his pen came such books as “Football: records, paradoxes, tragedies, sensations”, “Moscow football”, “USSR national team”. For many years he served as deputy chairman of the USSR Football Federation. He lived in Moscow. He died in 1986. And to this day, the daughter of Konstantin Sergeyevich - Marina.
Based on the foregoing, we can conclude that the children of Yesenin and Reich were purposeful people who proved their strength of spirit and dignity in personal and professional life. Each of them chose his own path, but neither Konstantin nor Tatyana had ever forgotten that they were the children of a great man - the poet Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin.
Relations with Hope Volpin
In 1920 Yesenin met the poetess Nadezhda Volpin. Nadezhda was fond of poetry in her youth, was an active participant in the poetry studio "Green Workshop", which was led by Andrei Bely.
Her love affair with Yesenin lasted long enough. May 12, 1924 she gave birth to a son from Yesenin, whom she named Alexander.
Alexander Volpin - illegitimate son of Yesenin
When you get acquainted with the work of Sergei Alexandrovich and his biography, reasonable questions arise: are the children of Yesenin alive? Does any of his offspring write such talented poems as their ancestor? Unfortunately, as mentioned above, the three oldest children of the poet have already passed away. The only living one is the illegitimate son of the poet, Alexander Yesenin-Volpin. We can safely say that he inherited the rebellious spirit of his father, but nobody could write, like Yesenin, even his children.
Alexander Sergeevich studied at the Faculty of Mechanics of Moscow State University, then entered graduate school. In 1949 he became a candidate of mathematical sciences. In the same year, he was first arrested for writing "anti-Soviet poems" and sent to compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital. And then for several years he stayed in exile in Karaganda. Returning from exile, he began to engage in a lot of human rights activities, which from time to time were interrupted by numerous arrests and treatment in a psychiatric hospital. In total, A. Yesenin-Volpin spent 14 years in captivity.
The trio "Volpin, Chalidze and Sakharov" are the creators of the Human Rights Committee. Alexander Sergeyevich is the author of the Samizdat leadership, which tells about "How to behave during interrogations."
The oldest children of Sergei Yesenin (see photo below) have lived all their lives in Moscow, while the youngest son, Alexander Volpin, emigrated to America in 1972, where he still lives. He was engaged in mathematics and philosophy. Now she is living out her life in the USA, in a shelter for the elderly with mental disorders.
Sergei Vladimirovich Yesenin - the poet’s grandson
Sergei Yesenin, whose children and grandchildren have become worthy people who have proven themselves in various fields of activity, could be proud of their descendants. Each of them carried a love for the work of his great ancestor through life.
For example, the son of Tatyana Yesenina, Sergey Vladimirovich, who worked for many years in the field of construction and is seriously involved in sports mountaineering, in addition, studies the family tree of his family and helps Yesenin museums recreate moments in the life of the great poet.
In his youth, he played football. Once his team won the youth championship of Uzbekistan. He was fond of chess. But mountaineering became a real passion for his life. And for 10 years, this occupation also became his profession when he taught mountain climbers.
He and his family moved to Moscow in the early 90s. This could have been done before, because in 1957 his mother, Tatyana Yesenina, was invited to return to the capital, but she did not want to live in a city where she tragically lost all her closest people.
Museums named after Sergey Yesenin
At the moment, there are several museums dedicated to the life and work of this great man. Yesenin’s children, whose biography, photos of which are also on display in these museums, helped these organizations a lot, especially Konstantin and Tatyana. And the poet’s grandson, his namesake Sergey, more than once helped to organize this or that exhibition devoted to the life and work of the great poet. Sergei Vladimirovich believes that one of the best is the Yesenin Museum, which is located in Tashkent. He speaks well of the metropolitan institution, which is located in the house where the poet rented a house with his father.
In the village of Konstantinovo, where Sergei Yesenin was born and spent his childhood, there is a whole museum complex. The house is still preserved where the future creator was born. Not all things in this house are real, but some are genuine. They really were in the hands of Sergei Yesenin. Children and grandchildren replenished the collection of the museum complex with things that preserve the memory of their great ancestor. And Sergei Vladimirovich also participated in organizing the activities of the Meyerhold Museum, providing a lot of materials about the life of the director with Zinaida Reich.
Sergey Yesenin: children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren …
Two grandchildren live in Russia - Vladimir and Sergey, as already mentioned, the granddaughter of Marina, as well as their offspring, who have long been adults. Vladimir Kutuzov (he took the name of his father, husband Tatyana Yesenina) has two sons. Sergey and his wife raised two beautiful daughters, Zinaida and Anna. Zinaida is engaged in teaching and devotes much time to compiling the family tree of her family. She has a son. Anna is an artist. Her daughter, the great-great-granddaughter of the poet, decided to follow in her footsteps.
Thus, not only Yesenin’s children, a biography, photos of which are presented in this article, but his more distant descendants are creative personalities.
