"Life is cheap, but necessary. I'm a God's pipe," Sergei Yesenin wrote shortly before his tragic death. A rebel and a romantic, a village lyricist and an urban dandy, Yesenin became one of the most striking and controversial figures of the Silver Age. His poetry is the living nerve of an era in which tenderness and pain, despair and light are intertwined in the mesmerizing melody of the Russian word.The collection includes selected poems and poems by Yesenin, including "Inonia" and "The Black Man", as well as memoirs of contemporaries, in particular, Vladislav Khodasevich, which help to better understand the poet's fate.This book includes original illustrations by Elizaveta Nadezhdina.