In the photograph Sergei Yesenin is shown with his sister Ekaterina. She was born in the Konstantinovo village and in 1921 she moved to Moscow to help her brother in the literary and publishing activities. Ekaterina was the poet’s private secretary and archive keeper until his death in 1925. Ekaterina married to Vasily Nasedkin, close friend of Yesenin and poet, who was arrested and executed in 1937.
She will be best remembered as the author of memoirs In Konstantinovo and popularizer of the creative activities of Sergei Yesenin — in particular, Ekaterina was among those who proposed to open the Yesenin Museum in the Konstantinovo village and consulted on the aspects of the life and creative work of the poet. The Lonely Man and Chuck story (1915) was dedicated to her. The “Letter to Sister” poem (1925) is also addressed to her.
Ekaterina remembered the day when this photograph was taken: “On that fine summer day Sergei Alexandrovich had the things shaping well. Before the exit into the street my brother insisted that I should put on a light overcoat in spite of the summer weather. He noticed that I have a light attack of cold. This time Sergei did not stay long in the publishing house. He was in full feather and it was clear that the meeting in the publishing house had been a success. On our way home there was a one-hour photo booth in the Prechistensky Boulevard. When we came up with it, having recognized Yesenin, the photographer offered him to be photographed together with me”.
This day turned out to be stamped in the reminiscences of journalist and writer Sophia Vinogradskaya: “Once he and his sister went for town to have a walk… In the Prechistensky Boulevard he saw a child with a small squeezebox. Needless to say, he could not pass by the squeezebox. In a minute, looking up, tapping his foot, and playing the child”s squeezebox, Yesenin was standing with his sister in front of the photographer”.
Throughout the life Ekaterina Yesenina was recovering the creative legacy of her repressed husband Vasily Nasedkin, including his previously prohibited work Last year of Esenin. She herself also wrote the reminiscences about her brother and took part in preparing the collected works and many collections of verses.
She will be best remembered as the author of memoirs In Konstantinovo and popularizer of the creative activities of Sergei Yesenin — in particular, Ekaterina was among those who proposed to open the Yesenin Museum in the Konstantinovo village and consulted on the aspects of the life and creative work of the poet. The Lonely Man and Chuck story (1915) was dedicated to her. The “Letter to Sister” poem (1925) is also addressed to her.
Ekaterina remembered the day when this photograph was taken: “On that fine summer day Sergei Alexandrovich had the things shaping well. Before the exit into the street my brother insisted that I should put on a light overcoat in spite of the summer weather. He noticed that I have a light attack of cold. This time Sergei did not stay long in the publishing house. He was in full feather and it was clear that the meeting in the publishing house had been a success. On our way home there was a one-hour photo booth in the Prechistensky Boulevard. When we came up with it, having recognized Yesenin, the photographer offered him to be photographed together with me”.
This day turned out to be stamped in the reminiscences of journalist and writer Sophia Vinogradskaya: “Once he and his sister went for town to have a walk… In the Prechistensky Boulevard he saw a child with a small squeezebox. Needless to say, he could not pass by the squeezebox. In a minute, looking up, tapping his foot, and playing the child”s squeezebox, Yesenin was standing with his sister in front of the photographer”.
Throughout the life Ekaterina Yesenina was recovering the creative legacy of her repressed husband Vasily Nasedkin, including his previously prohibited work Last year of Esenin. She herself also wrote the reminiscences about her brother and took part in preparing the collected works and many collections of verses.
