Tatyana Sergeevna Yesenina (russian: Татьяна Серге́евна Есенина; May 29, 1918 – May 6, 1992) was a Soviet writer, the daughter of

Sergei Yesenin Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin ( rus, Сергей Александрович Есенин, p=sʲɪrˈɡʲej ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ jɪˈsʲenʲɪn; ( 1895 – 28 December 1925), sometimes spelled as Esenin, was a Russian lyric poet. He is one o ...

and his second wife

Zinaida Raikh Zinaida Nikolayevna Reich (the last name also spelled Raikh or Raih; russian: Зинаида Николаевна Райх; – 15 July 1939) was a Russian actress and one of the main stars of the Meyerhold Theatre until it was closed under Jose ...

. Tatyana was raised in Moscow. She was exiled to

Tashkent Tashkent (, uz, Toshkent, Тошкент/, ) (from russian: Ташкент), or Toshkent (; ), also historically known as Chach is the capital and largest city of Uzbekistan. It is the most populous city in Central Asia, with a population of ...

in 1941, after the murder of her mother by the

NKVD The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (russian: Наро́дный комиссариа́т вну́тренних дел, Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del, ), abbreviated NKVD ( ), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union. ...

. In Tashkent, Tatyana worked as a journalist, producing many articles and sketches. She published a memoir of her father, ''The House on the Nikolsky Boulevard''. Tatyana's novel ''Zhenya, the Wonder of the Twentieth Century'' was the only work of fiction she published in her lifetime, though she left other works in manuscript at her death.

English translations

*''Male Bonding Sessions'', (extract from ''Zhenya, the Wonder of the Twentieth Century''), from ''Anthology of Russian Women's Writing, 1777-1992'', Oxford University Press, 1994.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yesenina, Tatyana 1918 births 1992 deaths Soviet novelists Soviet internal exiles Writers from Moscow Soviet women novelists