In literature, the dedication of verses or other works to someone is not a rare occurrence. Love, admiration, respect, devotion - these feelings push and not such stupid things. I would like to preserve a person’s attitude in immortal lines, to exalt him, and sometimes just apologize for the past. Sergey Yesenin was no exception.
Youth is the time of love, the time of flowering, the time of easy passions and strange follies. When you are 20 years old and the whole world is under your feet, your feelings are full, you want to live and strive for the best. That was exactly what Yesenin was when he returned to Moscow as a famous poet and met an educated lady, Zinaida Reich.
German - Russian in spirit
Zinaida Nikolaevna Reich was born in 1862 in the family of a simple railway worker, originally German. Her father was a Social Democrat, was a member of the RSDLP. Together with her daughter, in 1897, they held revolutionary views, for which the family was expelled from Odessa to Bender.
The convinced revolutionary Zinaida Reich even before meeting with Yesenin suffered for a just cause.
There Zinaida entered the gymnasium and graduated from 8 classes. Then she left for Petrograd and entered the Faculty of History and Literature, after which at the age of 23 she met Sergei Yesenin.
Moscow mischievous reveler - a family man?
In 1917, Zinaida and Sergei were married during a trip to the homeland of Alexei Ganin, a friend of the poet. The bachelor party Yesenin spent in Volgograd, and the wedding itself was in the ancient stone church of Kirik and Ulitta. In this event, the poet over the head of the groom held the poet Bystrov.
Disappointment and Disorder
The first wedding night was a complete disappointment for the poet. The woman lied to him that she was innocent. The fraud was revealed, which left an imprint on their relationship. The marriage was not destined to last long. As a result, the young people broke up.
Drunk, Buyan and rowdy - Yesenin's family life fully showed the uneasy nature of the poet.
You ask, what about the letter? Only after Zinaida again married Meyerhold, who accepted her children from Yesenin, could the poet find warm feelings in himself and write an immortal poem.
