WRITER

Sergei Yesenin

1895 - 1925

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Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin (Russian: Сергей Александрович Есенин, IPA: [sʲɪrˈɡʲej ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ jɪˈsʲenʲɪn]; 3 October [O.S. 21 September] 1895 – 28 December 1925), sometimes spelled as Esenin, was a Russian lyric poet. He is one of the most popular and well-known Russian poets of the 20th century. One of his narratives was "lyrical evocations of and nostalgia for the village life of his childhood – no idyll, presented in all its rawness, with an implied curse on urbanisation and industrialisation". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sergei Yesenin is the 436th most popular writer (down from 380th in 2019), the 144th most popular biography from Russia (down from 131st in 2019) and the 18th most popular Russian Writer.

Sergei Yesenin is most famous for his poetry.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sergei Yesenin ranks 436 out of 7,302. Before him are Phillis Wheatley, Einhard, Ágota Kristóf, Gertrude Stein, Sholem Aleichem, and Joseph Brodsky. After him are Sándor Márai, Gregory of Tours, Georges Bataille, Fausto Cercignani, Andrzej Sapkowski, and Qu Yuan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Sergei Yesenin ranks 27. Before him are Paul Hindemith, Semyon Timoshenko, Ragnar Frisch, Dolores Ibárruri, Gerhard Domagk, and Anastas Mikoyan. After him are Henrik Dam, Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, André Frédéric Cournand, Levi Eshkol, J. Edgar Hoover, and Cemal Gürsel. Among people deceased in 1925, Sergei Yesenin ranks 12. Before him are Alexandra of Denmark, Maria Sophie of Bavaria, William Jennings Bryan, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Georgy Lvov, and Johann Palisa. After him are Henri Fayol, Władysław Reymont, Josef Breuer, Duchess Mathilde Ludovika in Bavaria, Mikhail Frunze, and Camille Flammarion.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Sergei Yesenin ranks 144 out of 3,761. Before him are Georgi Plekhanov (1856), Ivan V of Russia (1666), Käthe Kollwitz (1867), Pyotr Bagration (1765), Walther Funk (1890), and Joseph Brodsky (1940). After him are Witold Pilecki (1901), Dmitry Donskoy (1350), Yemelyan Pugachev (1742), Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (1897), Alexander Glazunov (1865), and Vasili III of Russia (1479).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Sergei Yesenin ranks 18. Before him are Ivan Turgenev (1818), Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861), Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926), Mikhail Lermontov (1814), Mikhail Sholokhov (1905), and Joseph Brodsky (1940). After him are Vladimir Vysotsky (1938), Ivan Bunin (1870), Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884), Ivan Goncharov (1812), Alexander Herzen (1812), and Ivan Krylov (1769).

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