Tatyana Yesenina
Encyclopedia
Tatyana Sergeevna Yesenina May 29, 1918 - May 6, 1992, was a Russian writer and the daughter of Sergei Yesenin
and his second wife Zinaida Raikh.
in 1941, after the murder of her mother by the NKVD
. In Tashkent Tatyana worked as a journalist, producing many articles and sketches. She published a memoir of her father The House on the Nikolsky Boulevard. Tatyana's novel Zhenya, the Wonder of the Twentieth Century was the only work of fiction she published in her lifetime, though she left other works in manuscript at her death.
Sergei Yesenin
Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin was a Russian lyrical poet. He was one of the most popular and well-known Russian poets of the 20th century but committed suicide at the age of 30...
and his second wife Zinaida Raikh.
Biography
Tatyana was raised in Moscow. She was exiled to TashkentTashkent
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in 1941, after the murder of her mother by the NKVD
NKVD
The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs was the public and secret police organization of the Soviet Union that directly executed the rule of power of the Soviets, including political repression, during the era of Joseph Stalin....
. In Tashkent Tatyana worked as a journalist, producing many articles and sketches. She published a memoir of her father The House on the Nikolsky Boulevard. Tatyana's novel Zhenya, the Wonder of the Twentieth Century was the only work of fiction she published in her lifetime, though she left other works in manuscript at her death.
English translations
- Male Bonding Sessions, (extract from Zhenya, the Wonder of the Twentieth Century), from Anthology of Russian Women's Writing, Oxford, 1994.