Born 21 Sept 1895 in Konstantinovo (Yesinino) in the Ryazan Region of Central Russia.
Father was Alexander Nikitich Yesenin and mother, Tatyana Feodorovna (born Titova).
A sister Ekaterina (1905), sister Alexandra (1911).
July 1912, moved to Moscow where he worked at various jobs.
March 1913, started work at publishing house of I.D.Sitin as clerk to proof reader.
End of 1913, read his poem 'The scarlet of the dawn...' to Professor P.N.Salukin at Moscow City Public University (A.L.Shanyavasky University).
End of 1913, civil marriage Anna Romanovna Izyryadnova, proof reader at Sitin's Publishing House.
January 1914, under the pseudonym 'Ariston' published his poem 'The Birch Tree' in Children's Magazine#1.
May 1914, left Sitin's Publishing House.
December 21, 1914, a son Yuri was born (Yuri was arrested in 1937 by the Chekisty and killed. In 1956 he was fully exonerated).
Sergey Yesenin, 1914
8 March 1915 left Moscow for St. Petersburg.
9 March 1915, read poems to Blok.
Sergey Yesenin, 1915
1916 - 1917, saw military service in the Sanitary Command Train. Read poetry to the Empress of Russia and her daughters. Published his first book of poetry 'Radunitsa'.
March 1917, became acquainted with Zinaeda Nikolayevna Riykh.
30 July 1917, engaged to Riykh.
25 October 1917, Bolshevik coup and fall of the Kerensnky government.
25 February 1918, published the book 'Red Ringing'.
February/March 1918, publication of poetry book 'Jesus, the Baby'.
11 June 1918, a daughter Tatiana (died 1992).
September 1918, established his own publishing house 'Moscow Labor Company of the Artists of Word'.
3 February 1919, a son Konstanin (future sports reporter, died 1986).
July to September 1920, with the poet Mariengoff to the Caucusus. Visited many places including Baku and Tiflis.
November 1920, wrote the poem 'Hooligan's Confession'.
3 October 1921, in studio of the painter Yakolov he met Isadora Duncan.
5 October 1921, divorced Riykh.
February 1922, spent days with Isadora Duncan in St.Petersburg.
2 May 1922, officially registered marriage with Isadora Duncan.
Summer 1922, visited Germany, Belgium, France, Italy. Lived with Duncan in France for one month.
1 October 1922, sailed with Duncan to America on the 'Paris'.
October to November 1922, visited many American cities with Duncan.
4 February 1923, left for France with Duncan.
11 February 1923, Paris.
15-16 February 1923, Berlin.
13 May 1923, poetry evening in Parisian theater owned by R.Duncan (brother-in-law). Quarreled with Isadora Duncan. Returned to Moscow.
August 1923, became acquainted with an actress of the Kamerny Theater, Augusta Leonodovna Miklashevskaya (1891-1977). Dedicated a cycle of poems to her 'The Hooligan's Love'.
Augusta Miklashevskaya
September 1923, parted with Isadora Duncan.
1923, civil marriage with Galina Arturovna Benislaskaya. She acted as his secretary. Almost a year after Yesenin's suicide, on December 3, 1926, she shot herself through the heart at his graveside. She is buried next to him.
Galina Benislaskaya
17 December 1923, in hospital with nervous breakdown.
February/March 1924, continued treatment in Sheremetyevo and Kremlin hospitals.
12 May 1924, son Alexandr, mother was poet and translator Nadezhka Davidovna Volpin. But Yesenin never saw him (later Alexandr Sergevich Volpin-Yesenin himself became a poet. He played an outstanding role in the dissident movement in the 1960s).
June/July 1924, in Leningrad, wrote poems 'Son of a Bitch', 'Soviet Russia'.
3 September 1924, left for the Caucusus. Stayed until the end of February 1925. Lived in Tiflis, Baku and Batum. Wrote many poems including 'Stansi', 'The Homeless Russia', 'Letter to a Woman', and 'Reply'. Started work on the cycle of love poems 'Persian Motifs' and his long poem 'Anna Senegina'.
1 March 1925, returned to Moscow.
March 1925, met Leo Tolstoy's grand daughter, Sophia Andreyevna Tolstoya.
25 July 1925, went with S.A.Tolstaya to Baku to seek treatment for mental problems.
August 1925, wrote several poems of his cycle 'Persian Motifs'.
7 September 1925, returned to Moscow.
12 September 1925, several important poems... including 'I haven't seen such beauty', dedicated to his younger sister Shura.
18 September 1925, officially registered marriage with Sophia Tolstoya.
12/14 November 1925, wrote and sent for publication 'The Black Man'.
26 November 1925, entered the clinic of First Moscow State University.
21 December 1925, left Hospital. Sent a telegram to his friend Erlikh asking him to find 2-3 rooms in Leningrad. to live there permanently. Asked his wife to register their Moscow flat in her name only. Cashed in all his securities from his Publishing house. Took all his money from the bank. Left for Leningrad.
24-27 December 1925, in Hotel Angleterre, Leningrad, where he met many literary people. Tore a sheet of paper with a poem on it from his notebook. Gave it to Ehrlikh and asked him to read it later, not in his presence. Ehrlikh read it on 28 December 1925. It was 'Goodbye, My Friend, Goodbye', written in his own blood.
28 December 1925, Yesenin was found hanged in his hotel room.
30 December 1925. His body was moved to Moscow. His coffin lay in state in the 'House of Press'. On the facade of the publishing house was placed a large cloth banner with the inscription: 'The Body of The Great National Poet Sergey Yesenin is Resting Here'.
31 December 1925, Before the funeral to the Vagankovo Cemetery in Moscow, his coffin was taken around the Pushkin Monument in Terskoy Boulevard...
October 13, 1999