page_title: Sergei Yesenin
section_title: In popular culture
hierarchical_section_title: Sergei Yesenin / In popular culture
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Памятник поэту Сергею Есенину в городе Рязани
context_page_description: Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin was a Russian lyric poet. He is one of the most popular and well-known Russian poets of the 20th century.
context_section_description: Yesenin appears as a character in the 1981 ballet Isadora, by Kenneth Macmillan.
  A monument to Yesenin opened in St. Petersburg in 1995.
  In 2005 Russian studio Pro-Cinema Production produced a TV mini-series Yesenin. The movie described the version of his death according to which he was murdered by NKVD agents who staged his suicide. In the mini-series Yesenin was portrayed by Sergey Bezrukov.
  Sergei Yesenin's final poem was a major inspiration for the Bring Me the Horizon song "It Was Written in Blood" on their album Suicide Season.
  Yesenin is used as a pseudonym for a fictional poet in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
  Jim Harrison's poetry collection Letters to Yesenin is a series of poems addressed to Yesenin that illuminate his life and death.
caption: Monument to Yesenin in Ryazan
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