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Abstract:

The Сollective Мonograph “Sergey Esenin in the Context of Russian and World Сulture” is published for the 130^th anniversary of S.A. Esenin’s birth. The book examines a wide range of issues related to the poetics, textual studies and the poet’s creative biography. Special attention is paid to the study of Esenin’s legacy in historical, literary, and cultural contexts, tracing the poet’s continuity with ancient Russian literature and Pushkin, as well as with 19^th-century writers and his contemporaries. The monograph reveals the image of Esenin in art, and pays significant attention to translations and the reception of the poet’s work abroad. The materials are also devoted to such little-studied topics as the poet’s genealogy, his publishing activities and the preservation of Esenin’s memory in museums. The research results presented in the materials included in the monograph demonstrate the multifaceted nature of further work on studying the life and biography of Esenin and his contemporaries in the context of Russian and world culture. The information from the monograph will be used in the preparation of the fundamental academic work “The Esenin Encyclopedia (1895–1925)” and will become an important source in the creation of academic biographies of Russian writers and artists of the first half of the 20^th century. They will be important for teachers and students of Russian literature and culture.

Keywords: S.A. Esenin, creativity, biography, “The Esenin Encyclopedia (1895–1925)”, Russian literature, world culture.

Contents

From the Editorial Board

I.

Questions of Poetics, Textology and Creative Biography of Esenin

Natalia I. Shubnikova-Guseva (Moscow).

“Extremely Individual”: From Observations on the Poetics of Sergey Esenin

Svetlana A. Seregina (Moscow).

From “Rus” to “Inoniya”: the Poetic Ideal in the Works of S.A. Esenin in the 1910s 

Elizaveta S. Apalkova (Moscow).

“Those Who Have Seen the Word Have a Comprehension of the Fire Above It”: S.A. Esenin’s Philosophy of the Word in the Context of the Searches of His Contemporaries 

Valery A. Domansky (St. Petersburg).

“The Healing Space”: The Phenomenon of Esenin’s Landscape 

Svetlana P. Sorokina (Moscow).

The Poetics of Cruel Romance in the Early Poetry of S.A. Esenin 

Dmitry D. Nikolaev (Moscow).

The Image of a Hooligan in the Works of Esenin: Poetics and Context 

Elena A. Samodelova (Moscow).

“The Tale of the Shepherd Petya, His Commissarship and the Cow Kingdom” by Esenin: History of Creation, Prototypes, Artistic Imagery 

Aleksey P. Zimenkov (Moscow).

On the Ways of Developing the Inner Rhyme in the 20th–Century Russian Poetry (Symbolists, Futurists, Khlebnikov, Mayakovsky, Esenin, A. Voznesensky) 

Elena A. Tyurina (Moscow).

The Perspectives of Digital and Comparative Textology (Based on the Works of S. Esenin and V. Mayakovsky) 

Мaxim V. Skorokhodov (Moscow).

Esenin as a Publisher 

II.

Esenin in the Historical and Literary Context

Olga E. Voronova (Ryazan).

“Dialogue with Pushkin” in the Life Text and in the Artistic Consciousness of S.A. Esenin 

Anna A. Reshetova (Ryazan).

Old Russian Text in the Works by S. Esenin: Genetic and Source Study Approaches to the Issue

Lyubov F. Alekseeva (Moscow).

“The Lyrics of the Modern Soul” in the Literary Process of the 1900s–1920s and Its Echoes and Updates in the Poetry of Sergey Esenin 

Tatiana K. Savchenko (Moscow).

Predecessors of Imaginism: Lev Mey 

Natalya M. Solntseva (Moscow).

N.A. Klyuev’s Dream “The Abyss is Pitch Black” About Esenin and Gogol 

Ranjana Banerjee (India, New Delhi).

The Image of White India in the Works of Russian Writers from the Early Twentieth Century (Based on the Poetic and Prosaic Texts of Nikolay Klyuev, Sergey Esenin and Vsevolod Ivanov) 

Valery A. Sukhov (Penza).

Pavel Druzhinin — a New Peasant Poet from Esenin’s Entourage 

Tatiana A. Ternova (Voronezh).

Color, Flowers and Trees in the “Raspberry Shawl” by Ivan Gruzinov: Toward the Question of the Esenin’s ContextColor, Flowers and Trees in the “Raspberry Shawl” by Ivan Gruzinov: Toward the Question of the Esenin’s Context 

Yuri B. Orlitsky (Moscow).

“Next to Esenin”: Once Again About the Verse Composition of the New Peasant Poets 

III.

Esenin’s Poetry in the Dialogue of Arts

Vera N. Terekhina (Moscow).

A Poetic Self-Portrait of S. Esenin and Its Reflection in the Paintings of His Contemporaries

Natalia I. Shubnikova-Guseva (Moscow).

Music in the Life and Work of S.A. Esenin: Problems and Prospects of Research 

Sergey I. Subbotin (Moscow).

сMusic in the Life and Work of S.A. Esenin: Problems and Prospects of Researchv 

Alla A. Nikolaeva (Moscow).

Cinematography in the Biography of S.A. Esenin 

Valeriia Yu. Evdokimova (Ryazan).

An Image of Sergey Esenin in the Theater 

IV.

Esenin Abroad: Reception and Translations

Michel Niqueux (France, Caen).

Early Lifetime Image of Esenin in France 

Olga B. Kafanova (St. Petersburg).

Lyrics by Sergey Esenin in the Modern French Translations 

Zhang Fangli (People’s Republic of China, Hangzhou).

Esenin Studies in China: a General Overview 

Anna V. Amelina (Moscow).

S.A. Esenin in Czechia 

Isaxan A. Isaxanli (Azerbaijan, Baku).

Azerbaijan Researchers of Sergey Esenin’s Life and Work 

Natalia V. Chikina (Petrozavodsk).

Translations of S.A. Esenin’s Lyrics into Finnish in Karelia in the Late 20th – Early 21st Centuries 

V.

Esenin in the Cultural Memory

Мaxim V. Skorokhodov (Moscow).

Esenin in the Cultural Memory: Museums 

Olga L. Anikina (Konstantinovo).

The Genealogy of the Esenin Family (Based on the Materials of the State Archive of the Ryazan Region) 

Maria V. Razumnova (Konstantinovo).

“Izba Liturgy”: the Traditional Architecture of a Peasant Hut in the Village of Konstantinovo in the Context of the Ideas of S.A. Esenin’s Treatise “The Keys of Mary” and from the Point of View of Ethnographic Research 

Valentina I. Pankratova (Konstantinovo).

Rare Books in the State Museum Reserve of S.A. Esenin: For the Anniversary of A.S. Pushkin

Vera S. Titova (Konstantinovo).

“I See Myself as in a Mirror…”: Objects from the Collection of the State Museum Reserve of S.A. Esenin Associated with the Name of A.S. Pushkin 

Tatiana Ya. Zotova (Konstantinovo).

“An Important Milestone” (40th Anniversary of the Klepiki Department of the State Museum Reserve of S.A. Esenin 

Summary 

Esenin Collections 1994–2021 

Index of Names