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...marked a victory for Kremlin advocates of a harder line toward the intelligentsia. Friends of Sinyavsky and Daniel were being grilled by the police for their part in circulating forbidden manuscripts, and Moscow danced with rumors that several other poets and critics had been arrested, including Essayist Aleksandr Yesenin-Volpin. Obviously, the KGB had successfully blocked the route through which "Abram Tertz" and "Nikolai Arzhak" smuggled their works to the West. But, while it may stay the outflow of underground literature, the latest Kremlin crackdown cannot permanently stop...
...exchange was reported last week in a New York Times dispatch from Moscow. The prisoner was Aleksandr Esenin-Volpin, 41, the son of flamboyant Revolutionary Poet Sergei Esenin, who committed suicide in 1925. Himself a poet of prominence, Esenin-Volpin had been arrested as a ringleader of the short-lived demonstration in Pushkin Square that demanded a public trial for Andrei Sinyavsky, generally believed to be the pseudonymous Abram Tertz, and Yuli Daniel, who wrote under the name Nikolai Arzhak (TIME...
...Nikita Khrushchev's day, such a public protest might have landed Esenin-Volpin in the Lubyanka. In fact, he was released with nothing more punishing than a lecture on "orderly public procedures" and a warning that he could expect to be denounced in the press. What is more, it seemed that Sinyavsky-Tertz and Daniel-Arzhak would indeed receive a public trial, probably next month in Moscow. That did not mean the pair would get off scot free, but it was progress of a sort...
...Yesenin-Volpin's pessimism and rebelliousness come naturally. His father, the great Russian village poet, Sergei Yesenin, was an ardent early Bolshevik, whose increasing disillusion with Communism was accompanied by a marriage to Dancer Isadora Duncan and a slide into alcoholic and narcotic torpor. His bastard son, Aleksandr Sergeyevich, was the result of a liaison with a Russian writer-translator, Nadezhda Volpin. Shortly after his son's birth, Yesenin slashed his wrists in a Leningrad hotel, wrote his last poem in his blood, then hanged himself...
Black Despair. Like his father, Yesenin-Volpin is a natural anarchist. "Only a morally and mentally defective person can fail to reach a stage of extreme indignation in the Soviet Union," he wrote. Yesenin-Volpin expressed his sense of outrage in a parody...