Isadora Duncan
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Angela Isadora Duncan was an American-born dancer and choreographer, who was a pioneer of modern contemporary dance and performed to great acclaim throughout Europe and the United States. Born and rai
Duncan c. 1906–1912
Photo by Arnold Genthe of Duncan performing barefoot during her 1915–1918 American tour
Abraham Walkowitz's Isadora Duncan #29, one of many works of art she inspired
Anna, Lisa and Margot, "Isadorables"
Sergei Yesenin
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Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin was a Russian lyric poet. He is one of the most popular and well-known Russian poets of the 20th century. One of his narratives was "lyrical evocations of and nostalgia f
Isadora Duncan
…and all of her male and female friends. Later on, in 1921, after the end of the Russian Revolution, Duncan moved to Moscow, where she met the poet Sergei Yesenin, who was eighteen years her junior. On May 2, 1922, they officially married, and Duncan took Soviet citizenship. After that Yesenin accompanied her on…
Yesenin in 1922
Yesenin's birth house in Konstantinovo
Yesenin and Nikolai Klyuev, circa 1917
Yesenin (right) with Anatoly Marienhof in 1915