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...dusty villages of the West. In Europe she attained a high degree of notoriety by refusing to become the mistress of famed Gabriel d'Annunzio; but despite her dislike, frequently made manifest, for the convention of marriage, she permitted herself to be wedded by noted Russian Poet Sergei Yessenin. Their marriage was as brief as a liaison...
Isadora Duncan, danseuse: "A year after the opera bouffe suicide of my young poet-husband, Sergei Yessenin (TIME, Jan. 11, 1926), I too determined to kill myself-or so my friends said last week when, at midnight, in Grecian robes and a purple mantle, I waded up to my neck in the sea at Nice, France. I myself stated that I did it on a bet with Rex Ingram, film producer, following a studio party. One Captain Patterson, Britisher with a wooden leg, rescued me from the waves...
Last year: "Sergei Yessenin has just written me that he has gone into the Caucasus to become a bandit. ... He writes that he is going to be a robber for the thrills. ... He wants to write poetry about robbery, and feels that he must gain experience as a bandit...
...Within the last few weeks: "I have no knowledge concerning reports that he has married Sofia Tolstoy, the granddaughter of Count Leo Tolstoy. . . . Sergei Yessenin is not like other...
Died. Sergei Yessenin, poet-husband of U. S. Dancer Isadora Duncan, a suicide at Leningrad...