Saturday, 3 October 2026

Yesenin's marriage to a wife 18 years his senior lasted just over a year

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A fair-haired man in a grey suit and a dark-haired woman in a light wrap sit on a sofa looking at an open magazine, a colourised photograph.

Sergei Yesenin and Isadora Duncan.

Yesenin was eighteen years her junior; their marriage was brief, lasting little more than a year, but brilliant

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