COLLISION OF TWO AGES: OUTGOING AND SOVIET RUSSIA IN THE WORK OF S.A. ESENIN

Abstract. The article is devoted to the study of the attitude of Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin to the revolution and its consequences. Based on the analysis of the poet's poems, the work shows how his point of view on the actions of the communists in the USSR gradually changed. The article may be of interest to fans of S.A. Yesenin, as well as students, teachers, graduate students of historical and philological faculties.

Keywords: S.A. Yesenin, revolution, Russia, poem.

S.A. Yesenin in the events of the revolution: the harsh years of the civil war, devastation, the country and the people are going through difficult trials - he saw the realization of his hopes and dreams of supreme justice, the path to the approval of people's thoughts. The poet is overwhelmed with a sense of bright expectations: "Oh, I believe, I believe, there is happiness ...", "The heart of the lilies of the valley of flared forces ...", "Oh my Motherland - I am a Bolshevik ..." expresses his conviction that a different "track", which brings the "red horse" world is the true path of mankind. At the same time, he is visited by thoughts that everything is not so good: “What a split in the country, what sadness in the merry boil!” So how, from a poet who fully supports October and Soviet Russia, Yesenin became one who saw the spiritual and social split in the country?

With the policy of the Communists, Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin is associated with huge changes that have taken place in the life of the Russian peasantry. This is noticeable in the poem "Country of Scoundrels", written in 1922-1923. Despite the variation of multiple socio-political views, all the heroes of Yesenin's poem become scoundrels. In a similar way, the author demonstrates that the presence of an unsettled socio-political concept transforms the entire state into a bunch of different socio-political judgments, which prevents its formation. Thanks to this work, we can understand that the poet did not have a care and detachment from the complex social, class, ethnic problems that confronted the people during the years of the revolution.

The theme of the outgoing Russia was clearly indicated by the contrast between the old and the new in the work "Russia is leaving" in 1924. The older generation cannot adapt to a new life: "The eyes are sadder than a cow's." And the younger generation succeeded, because it grew up on slogans. Yesenin appears between these camps, with one foot in the past, and the other, unstable - in the future, but he does not want to be in any of them. The poem should be perceived as a product of socio-political tension, designed to draw attention to the situation in the country.

We can see how the outgoing Russia becomes Soviet Russia in the poem “Soviet Russia” of 1924. The image of the motherland, perceived in childhood by Yesenin, is closer than the modern one. An image of poverty and devastation often appears in the poem, starting with the image of the burned father's house and ending with the landscape of the sunset, which "splashed the gray fields" and the bare feet of the poplars, which once again shows how everything differs from the new, bright country. Here, his hopes are turned to the future, when "the enmity of the tribes will pass, lies and sadness will disappear."

Thus, we found out that the expectations of Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin were not justified: in the “new” country, he saw only the destruction of the old foundations, and nothing good has come of the new yet. From this we conclude that his desire to "run after the Komsomol" can be regarded as an attempt to break out of a hopeless situation. But Yesenin is well aware that this is impossible, so he can only mourn over the wine "Russia is leaving".