In the US, the son of Sergei Yesenin died

Alexander Yesenin-Volpin, a well-known leader of the human rights movement in the USSR, poet, philosopher, mathematician, son of Sergey Yesenin, died on Wednesday in the United States at 92-year, his friends said on Wednesday.

Yesenin-Volpin was born on May 12, 1924 in Leningrad. His father, Sergei Yesenin, committed suicide when his son was one year old. His mother is the poet and translator Nadezhda Volpin. In 1933, he moved with his mother to Moscow, where he graduated from Moscow State University in Mechanics and Mathematics, after which he went to work in Chernivtsi. In 1949, he was first placed in a psychiatric hospital for anti-Soviet poetry. Then he was deported to Kaliningrad. In 1953 he was granted amnesty, but five years later he again ended up in a mental hospital.

Yesenin-Volpin is one of the heroes of the 2005 documentary film “They Chose Freedom,” dedicated to the history of the dissident movement in the USSR. His poems, distributed in samizdat and published in the West, signed his surname Volpin.

In 1965, Yesenin-Volpin became the organizer of the “glasnost rally” - the first public protest demonstration in the post-war USSR. The protesters demanded publicity of the trial of Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel and respect for the Constitution. In 1968, Yesenin-Volpin was again placed in a psychiatric hospital, after leaving which he emigrated to the United States. Since 1989, he often came to his homeland.

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