Sergei Yesenin

Russian poet (1895–1925)

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Lived 1895–1925, aged 30

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1895–1925
Aged 30

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Updated 2026-05-29

Russian poet who turned rural childhood angst into early 20th-century literary currency, earning major visibility through lyrically raw takes on village life versus industrialisation. His work became a staple of the era's literary canon.

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Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin, sometimes spelled as Esenin, was a Russian lyric poet. He is one of the most popular and well-known Russian poets of the 20th century. One of his narratives was "lyrical evocations of and nostalgia for the village life of his childhood – no idyll, presented in all its rawness, with an implied curse on urbanisation and industrialisation".

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