Esenin

[ yuh-sey-nin; Russian yi-sye-nyin ]

noun

1. Ser·gey A·le·ksan·dro·vich [syi, r, -, gyey, uh-lyi-, ksahn, -d, r, uh, -vyich]. Yesenin, Sergey Aleksandrovich.

Esenin

/ jɛˈsɛnɪn /

noun

1. EseninSergey Aleksandrovich18951925MRussianWRITING: poet Sergey Aleksandrovich. 1895–1925, Soviet poet, author of Confessions of a Hooligan (1924): married to Isadora Duncan

Example Sentences

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nonetheless, Evgeny Evtushenko, the bad boychik of Soviet letters, was at it again, this time kicking up a few vaguely dangerous poetic heels at the party during a Moscow meeting on the 70th anniversary of the birth of the great Russian village poet, Sergei Esenin.

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

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