Sergei Yesenin Quotes
Poet
Sergei Yesenin was poet from Russia
“Face to face, you cannot see the face. What is truly great can only be seen from a distance.”— Sergei Yesenin
From Yesenin's poem Letter to a Woman, 1924. One of the most quoted lines in Russian, used as a proverb about perspective and the inability to judge your own life while still inside it.
The Story of Sergei
Room 5, Hotel Angleterre
On December 28, 1925, Yesenin was found dead in Room 5 of the Hotel Angleterre in Leningrad. He was thirty years old. His last poem, written in his own blood the day before, ended with the line: to die is nothing new, but neither is living. His funeral in Moscow drew thousands. His grave at Vagankovo Cemetery is still covered in flowers. Soviet authorities banned his work for decades. The people never stopped reading him.
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