The Mad Heart of a Poet. Poems and Poems

The unique talent and tragic fate made Sergei Yesenin one of the key figures of Russian poetry in the 20th century. A peasant poet and a Moscow "hooligan," he left this life young, at the peak of his creative powers.... Today, the circumstances of his fate can no longer be separated from myths, but his penetrating lyrics still touch with their confessional sincerity and purity. According to V. Khodasevich, "the history of Yesenin is a history of delusions," yet "through all these delusions passes some great, precious truth... What is beautiful and noble in Yesenin is that he was infinitely truthful in his creativity and before his conscience, that he always brought everything to its conclusion, that he was not afraid to acknowledge mistakes... and wanted to pay for everything with a terrible price. His truth is love for his homeland, though blind, yet great." This edition presents poems and "small poems" by Sergei Yesenin, both widely known and those that did not enter the "main collection," as well as the poems "Pugachev," "The Land of Scoundrels," and others.