Esenin

American

[yuh-sey-nin, yi-sye-nyin] / jəˈseɪ nɪn, jɪˈsjɛ njɪn /

noun

Sergey Aleksandrovich Yesenin, Sergey Aleksandrovich.

Esenin British

/ jɛˈsɛnɪn /

noun

Sergey Aleksandrovich. 1895–1925, Soviet poet, author of Confessions of a Hooligan (1924): married to Isadora Duncan

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He, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Sergei Esenin became Russia's three musketeers of modernity.

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In his 52-line Letter to Esenin, Evtushenko raged oratorically on about how the "red-cheeked Komsomol leader thunders with his fists at us poets and wants to knead our souls like wax."

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Esenin, dear, Russia has changed And I do not like to say it has changed for the better, But to say it has been for the worse would be dangerous.

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