Переводчик: Джоз Аланиз This is the story of an extraordinary friendship and an extraordinary poet seen through the prism of an extraordinary time and place - the upside-down world of Moscow just after the Revolution By the time Sergei Esenin met Mariengof in 1918, his lyrical verse had made him a national celebrity The cultivated ожрбэ Mariengof found the peasant-born Esenin provincial at first But soon the two would be sitting up at night hammering out their Imagist manifesto Mariengof traces Esenin's career in bohemian Moscow as well as in Europe where the poet traveled with his exotic and much older wife, the American dancer Isadora Duncan A self-described genius, Esenin was devastated by his non-reception in the West where no one knew him (or read poetry) His response was to ignore the West, moving through it like a blind man When Esenin divorced Duncan and returned to Moscow, he was a changed man: crushed by the West, disillusioned by Soviet Russia As well as increasingly unstable and alcoholic Soon after parting company with the Imagists, he hung himself, having written a last poem in his own blood Издание на английском языке Автор Анатолий Мариенгоф Родился в Нижнем Новгороде Позднее его семья перебралась в Пензу, где он окончил частный пансион и поступил в привилегированный Дворянский институт Александра II, однако впоследствии, под влиянием отца, оказавшего большое влияние на мировоззрение и.  Составитель:Серия: Glas New Russian Writing.