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Anna Snegina. To A. Voronsky. 1 “A nice-sized village is Radovo, I reckon, two hundred farms. You don’t need more than a glance to know It isn’t without its charms. We’re well off for wood and water, There’s pasture land too, and fields, And poplars along the borders — All specially planted trees. “We don’t like to boast, but truly
Anna Snegina (Анна Снегина) is an autobiographical poem written by Russian poet Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin in 1925.
In May, what proved to be his final large poem Anna Snegina came out. During the year, he compiled and edited The Works by Yesenin in three volumes which was published by Gosizdat posthumously. Death. On 28 December 1925, Yesenin was found dead in his room in the Hotel Angleterre in Leningrad.
Esenin’s first poetry was published in journals in 1914. Still very much a village boy from the Ryazan province when he arrived in the St. Petersburg world of literary salons in 1915, he wrote afterward that “it was as if a Ryazan mare had splashed his piss on the emasculated snobbish elite.”.
For apart from the fact that the unhappy poet was desperately seeking to re-create some of his lost popularity, "Anna Snegina" developed a new poetic form (the 'sociological romance') which might partially disprove Trotsky's dictum that it was Esenin' s. tragedy to be born a lyric poet in an epic age.
ANNA IZRYADNOVA is the poet’s first, albeit unofficial, wife. She worked as a proofreader and they were only together for a short time, but she did manage to give birth to Yesenin’s first...
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