Author: Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin
Born: 3 October [O.S. 21 September] 1895
Died: 28 December 1925
Bio: Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin (Russian: Сергей Александрович Есенин), sometimes spelled as Esenin, was a Russian lyric poet. He is one of the most popular and well-known Russian poets of the 20th century, known for "his lyrical evocations of and nostalgia for the village life of his childhood – no idyll, presented in all its rawness, with an implied curse on urbanisation and industrialisation".