| Most of our store AudioBooks and DVD are in Russian language. | | Russian AudioBooks > Classics > |  | | |  | Poems. Poetry | | Author: | Esenin S.
| | Narrators: | V.Zolotuhin,
M.Uliaynov,
K.Lavrov,
Y. Bogatirev,
S.Nikonenko,
V.Smehov | | Format: | MP3 (192 kbps; 44100 Hz; Joint Stereo) | | CD(s): | 1 | | Play Time: | 3 h 35 min | | Item #: | RAB1732-1 | | Price (by mail): | $15.59 | | Download рrice: | $7.49 |
| | | Download sample file | The Russian poet Sergei Aleksandrovich Esenin (1895-1925) led a short and turbulent life, which quickly passed into legend and myth. From his meteoric literary debut in Petrograd in 1915 until his suicide in a Leningrad hotel in 1925, Esenin assumed in rapid succession a number of literary “masks” pastoral angel (1915-16), peasant prophet (1917-18), last poet of the village, tender hooligan (1919-21), tavern rake (1922-23), ex-hooligan (late 1923), would-be bard of the new Soviet Russia (mid-1924 until March 1925), and, finally, elegiac foreteller of his own imminent death (1925).
Although Esenin’s poetry is highly autobiographical and even “confessional”, the connection between the private man and his poetic persona is not entirely straightforward. The blue-eyed, fair-haired, elegant youth was not a naive or ingenuous peasant simpleton. By single-mindedly dedicating himself to the writing of poetry and the achievement of fame, Esenin blurred the boundaries between his “mask” and his “real face”, sacrificing the possibility of ordinary human happiness.
Although widely popular among Russians of all ages and classes, Esenin’s poetry was seldom published in the Soviet Union between 1930 and 1955. Throughout the Stalin era Esenin suffered official disfavor, being branded as a chauvinist, decadent, anti-Semite, drunkard, hooligan, anarchist, reactionary, and “kulak”. From 1955 to 1989 he was increasingly restored as a Soviet patriot and “great Russian national poet”.
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