Memorable dates of Russia: Exhibition "And Russia shines in the heart...", dedicated to the 125th anniversary of the birth of Sergei Yesenin, presented in St. Petersburg

The A. A. Blok Museum-Apartment (St. Petersburg) is hositng the exhibition "And Russia shines in the heart..." dedicated to the 125th anniversary of the birth of Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin and the 105th anniversary of the poet's first visit to Petrograd. This city meant a lot to Yesenin, several years of his life and the last days of the singer of the "country of birch calico" are associated with it.

The exhibition tells about the first acquaintance of Sergei Alexandrovich with Petrograd, about the rapid entry of the young talent into the literary environment of the capital, about meetings with recognized masters of the literary word: the symbolist-acmeist-modernists A. A. Blok, A. A. Akhmatova, A. Bely, poets peasant direction N. A. Klyuev, S. M. Gorodetsky, P. I. Karpov, futurists D. D. Burliuk, V. V. Mayakovsky.

The exhibition showcases portraits of Yesenin by the artists Yu. I. Masyutin, A. N. Yar-Kravchenko and B. A. Shatilov. The unusual portrait of the poet, painted by D. D. Burliuk, deserves special attention. This work was donated to the Yesenin State Museum-Reserve Yesenin by the English Yesenin scholar Gordon McVeigh.

The central place in the exposition is occupied by the personal belongings of the "singer of wooden Russia" from the collection of the Yesenin State Museum-Reserve: a scarf, a hairpin for a tie, as well as an icon of St. Sergius of Radonezh that belonged to Yesenin, presented to him by the Grand Duchess Elizaveta Fedorovna Romanova. The lifetime editions of the poet and his contemporaries are widely represented.