'Life is a cheap thing, but a necessary one. After all, I am 'God's flute'' — said Sergei Yesenin shortly before his mysterious death. A hooligan, a spendthrift, the 'last poet of the village', a regular of Moscow taverns — none of these definitions reveals the mysterious essence of the great Russian poet who possessed, in the words of Andrei Bely, 'an enormous and fragrant talent'. Again and again readers seek their own paths to understanding Yesenin, encountering the power of his lyrical gift. No wonder Maxim Gorky recalled one of the performances of the celebrated hooligan: 'he moved me to a spasm in my throat, I wanted to sob'.

The book includes selected poems by the poet, the poems 'Inonia' and 'The Black Man', as well as memoirs of Vladislav Khodasevich about Sergei Yesenin, who became a true symbol of the Russian Silver Age. The edition is accompanied by illustrations by Oleg Redium (@olegredium).