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Ekaterina Alexandrovna Yesenina (1905-1977) - sister of the famous Russian poet Yesenin Sergey Alexandrovich. Until 1921, she lived in the family village of the Yesenins - Konstantinovo, Ryazan province. In 1921 Yesenin
took his sister Ekaterina with him to Moscow.

In 1923-1925, Ekaterina Yesenina helped her brother in his literary and publishing affairs. Yesenin dedicated the story "Bobyl and Druzhok" to her, his famous poem "Letter to Sister" is addressed to her.

Ekaterina Alexandrovna Yesenina is the eldest of the poet's two sisters. The general public knows about her mainly as the personal secretary of her brother, the keeper of part of his archive and the wife of Vasily Nasedkin -
a close friend of Yesenin, a poet who was repressed in 1937 and executed by the NKVD in a fabricated "case of writers".

In 1930, Nasedkin was summoned to the OGPU to the Lubyanka. They interrogated why he left the Bolshevik Party in 1921? Vasily Nasedkin made no secret of the fact that he "did not agree with the policy in the countryside and in literature." confirmed that during
public speeches, speaking of the ruling ideology, called it "idiotology".

Ekaterina Yesenina's husband was arrested on October 26, 1937. The NKVD falsified the so-called "case of the writers" - "a terrorist group of writers associated with the counter-revolutionary organization of the right." They were charged, among other things, with preparing an assassination attempt on Stalin.

In this case, a long list of writers headed by the writer Valerian Pravdukhin fell under the rink of communist repressions: Ivan Makarov and Alexei Novikov-Priboy (Novikov), Pavel Vasilyev, Efim Permitin, Ivan Pribludny (Yakov Ovcharenko), Mikhail Karpov, Pyotr Parfenov from Ryazan , Sergei Klychkov, Yuri Olesha, Yesenin's very young son Yuri, and many others.

On March 15, 1938, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court (VKVS) sentenced Ekaterina Yesenina's husband to death. On the same day he was executed by the Chekists. What the Yesenin family found out about only many years later - then, in 1938, the NKVD presented them with false information about the sentence "to 10 years without the right to correspondence."

Vasily Nasedkin, who worked as a literary editor in the Kolkhoznik magazine before his arrest, provided for his family, since Ekaterina kept house and raised children - Andrei and Natalia.

After the repression of her husband, Ekaterina Yesenina got a job as a registrar at a polyclinic, then as a counter of Mosconvert envelopes in order to somehow feed her children.

Soon the Chekists came to Ekaterina Yesenina with a warrant for the arrest and search of an apartment on the Arbat, signed by the People's Commissar of the NKVD Beria himself. The operative who led the Yesenina-Nasedkina case kept asking more and more about the anti-Soviet activities of her husband (already shot).

From the interrogation protocol:

<...>"Answer: Vasily Fedorovich Nasedkin from December 1925 to October 27, 1937 was my husband. About his anti-Soviet activities, I
I know nothing.

Question: You are not telling the truth. You have concealed and continue to conceal the facts known to you. We encourage you to be honest.

Answer: I declare once again that I know nothing..."

The investigation ended in less than a month. There was no trial at all. From the Decree of the Special Meeting (OSO) under the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR dated November 1, 1938: "Yesenin E.A. - as a socially dangerous element - to deprive him of the right to reside in 15 points for a period of 5 years ..." (Archival criminal case E. A. Yesenina No. 18098. URAF FSB of Russia).

Due to a serious illness - severe asthma attacks - (and, very likely, at the request of Yesenin's admirers from among the then VIPs - editorial note by Stopgulag), Ekaterina Yesenina was allowed to settle in the Ryazan region and pick up her children from orphanages.

11-year-old Andrei and 5-year-old Natalia were brought to the Yesenins' ancestral village in the Ryazan region - Konstantinovo.

Ekaterina Alexandrovna Yesenina herself wrote about this time: “In 1939, I was expelled from Moscow to Ryazan, along with other wives of “enemies of the people.” There were many of us. I remember, with the arrival of our train in Ryazan, we walked from the station through the streets of the city in a continuous stream to the large building of the NKVD. There we went through registration, then everyone [expelled] in Ryazan somehow settled down.”

The daughter of Ekaterina Yesenina, Natalia Vasilyevna, recalled: “Mom was ordered to report to the NKVD in Ryazan on the 15th of every month. She was ordered to get a job urgently. She joined the Konstantinovsky collective farm Krasnaya Niva (she worked at the playground at the collective farm - author) .

“Mom became a donor - she donated blood for wounded soldiers. During this three years she received a work card instead of an employee and a good lunch on the day of blood donation, until she discovered that she was losing her sight. Konstantinovo's grandmother, Tatyana Fedorovna - author) it was a source of livelihood. They also gave vodka for a work card, which my mother exchanged for milk and other products. "

The then neighbor of the Yesenins, Ryazan Vasily Pervushkin, who studied at the Ryazan 17th school together with Ekaterina Alexandrovna's son Andrei, recalled: "... Ekaterina Alexandrovna was cheerful in public, always cheerful, loved to joke. Who would have thought that she I dressed simply - in jerseys, felt boots, smoked "goat's legs".<...>

Andrey, by the way, was very similar to his uncle. And several times, when we were together, he recited Yesenin's poems to me by heart. He sincerely admired his uncle and once said to me: "Now they forgot about him, but you'll see, the time will come and the whole world will read him!"

Yesenina hardly acquired part of the hut. Chagin helped her find a job. But soon her health completely weakened: prison and exile, poverty, humiliation, and shocks had an effect. At forty-two, Ekaterina Alexandrovna
became a disabled person of the 2nd group.

She waited fifteen years for her repressed husband Vasily Nasedkin. She refused the proposal of the writer Sergei Gorodetsky, a close friend of Yesenin, to marry him and thereby improve her position. Only in the mid-1950s did Ekaterina Alexandrovna learn about her husband's execution.

In August 1956, at the request of Ekaterina Yesenina and the petition of the Deputy Secretary of the Board of the Union of Writers of the USSR K. Voronkov, the writer Yu.

Ekaterina Alexandrovna Yesenina herself was rehabilitated in September 1956.

All subsequent years, Ekaterina Alexandrovna restored her husband's creative heritage, including his previously forbidden work "One Year with Yesenin", she herself wrote memoirs about her brother Sergei Yesenin. She was one of the initiators of the creation of the Literary and Memorial Museum of S. A. Yesenin in the village of Konstantinovo, Rybnovsky District, Ryazan Region.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Ekaterina Alexandrovna Yesenina took part in the preparation of collected works and many collections of her brother's poems.

She died of myocardial infarction in 1977 in Moscow.

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ESENIN SERGEY ALEKSANDROVICH 1895-1925

Born in the village of Konstantinov, Ryazan province.

In 1912 he moved to Moscow, where his father served as a merchant.

“From the first collections (“Radunitsa”, 1916; “Rural Book of Hours”, 1918) he appeared as a subtle lyricist, a master of a deeply psychologized landscape, a singer of peasant Russia, an expert in the folk language and folk soul.

In 1919-23 he was a member of a group of Imagists. Tragic attitude, spiritual confusion are expressed in the cycles "Mare's Ships" (1920), "Moscow Tavern" (1924), the poem "The Black Man" (1925). In the poem "The Ballad of Twenty-Six" (1924), dedicated to the Baku commissars, the collection "Soviet Russia" (1925), the poem "Anna Snegina" (1925), Yesenin sought to comprehend the "commune rearing Russia", although he continued to feel like a poet of "Russia leaving ", "golden log hut". Dramatic poem "Pugachev" (1921).

In a state of depression, he committed suicide. (protest! killed him (()

ESENIN ALEXANDER NIKITICH(1873-1931) - the father of the poet S. A. Yesenin]

Sergei Yesenin's father Alexander Nikitich sang in church as a boy

on Shchipok Street, there was a butcher's shop where Sergey Yesenin's father Alexander Nikitich worked as a senior clerk and where he went to work in 1912 and where Sergey Yesenin also worked as a clerk when he moved from his village of Konstantinovo to Moscow. And he lived with his father not far from Shchipok Street in Bolshoy Strochenovsky Lane, in the house of Krylov, 24, in the hostel of "bachelor clerks" ... True, after a while he left the butcher's shop (what kind of butcher is he ?! and what kind of clerk ?! ) and went back to Konstantinovo, but soon returned to Moscow again and for some time worked as a salesman in a bookstore near Strastnaya Square. And in 1913 he got a job as an assistant proofreader, subreader, in the printing house "Partnership of ID Sytin" on Pyatnitskaya Street, 71 ... And then he left, as they say, on free bread.

TATYANA FYODOROVNA ESENINA(TITOVA; 1865-1955) - the poet's mother, whose image passed through all his work.

NATALYA EVTIKHIEVNA TITOVA(1847-1911) - Yesenin's grandmother (mother of Tatyana Fedorovna)

Titov Fedor Andreevich (1845-1927), Yesenin's maternal grandfather

TITOV IVAN FYODOROVICH, Yesenin's maternal uncle

EKATERINA ALEKSANDROVNA ESENINA- older sister (1905-1977).

ALEXANDRA ALEKSANDROVNA YESENINA - younger sister (1911-1981).

Yesenin Ilya Ivanovich (1902-1942?), cousin of the poet

Yesenina Olga Alexandrovna (1898-1901

Nasedkin Vasily Fedorovich (1895-1938), poet, husband of E. A. Yesenina

FIRST WIFE ANNA IZRYADNOVA 1891-1946

ESENIN YURI (GEORGE) SERGEEVICH was born December 21, 1914 in Moscow. Graduated from the Moscow Aviation College.

Father - SERGEY ALEKSANDROVICH ESENIN, poet (1895-1925),

mother - ANNA ROMANOVNA IZRYADNOVA(d. 1946).

(Sivtsev Vrazhek, 44, apt. 14, where Anna Izryadnova lived, her son Georgy Yesenin and temporarily, in 1938 - 1939, Yesenin's mother, Tatyana Fedorovna, was registered)

On April 4, 1937, Yuri Yesenin was arrested for Far East, (where he served in the military), as "an active participant in the counter-revolutionary fascist-terrorist group", by order of the deputy. People's Commissar of Internal Affairs Y. Agranov. On May 18, Yesenin was taken to Moscow to the Lubyanka. subjected to massive psychological treatment NKVD officers and signed all charges against him. August 13, 1937 Y. Yesenin was shot.

In 1956, Yuri Yesenin was posthumously rehabilitated.

SECOND WIFE ZINAIDA REICH:

On August 12, 1917, Sergei Yesenin and Zinaida Reich (1894-1939) got married in the Kiriko-Ulitovskaya Church of the Vologda district

Children: Tatiana and Konstantin

ESENINA TATYANA SERGEEVNA(May 29, 1918 - May 6, 1992 at the Botkin cemetery in Tashkent) Russian science fiction writer.

Father - poet Sergei Yesenin. Mother - actress Zinaida Reich. She lived in Tashkent. Member of the Union of Writers. Director of the Sergei Yesenin Museum.

ESENIN KONSTANTIN SERGEEVICH(02/03/1920, Moscow - 04/26/1986, Moscow, was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery. He was a famous football statistician. Son of Zinaida Reich

November 4, 1920 on literary evening"Trial of the Imagists" Yesenin met Galina Benislavskaya

Benislavskaya Galina Arturovna (1897-1926)

THIRD WIFE: ISEDORAH DUNCAN:

On May 2, 1922, Sergei Yesenin and Isadora Duncan ((1877-1927) decided to fix their marriage according to Soviet laws

On May 12, 1924, the illegitimate son of Sergei Yesenin and Nadezhda Davydovna Volpin was born in Leningrad - a prominent mathematician, a well-known human rights activist,

A. Yesenin-Volpin

Now lives in the USA.

FOURTH WIFE SOFIA TOLSTAYA

Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya.

Tolstaya-Yesenina Sofia Andreevna (1900-1957) - Yesenin's wife, museum worker, granddaughter of Leo Tolstoy. Under Yesenin's dictation, she wrote down many of his works, rewrote poetry, and actively participated in the publication of Yesenin's works. After the death of the poet, Tolstaya became the organizer of the Yesenin Museum in Moscow, collected, preserved and rewrote many of Yesenin's manuscripts.

Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya, born April 12, 1900 in Yasnaya Polyana, died June 29, 1957 in Malakhovka near Moscow.

KASHINA (nee Kulakova) LIDIIA IVANOVNA (1886-1937) - the owner of the estate in the village. Konstantinovo, Yesenin's friend.

Panfilov Grigory Andreevich (1893-1914) - a friend of Yesenin's adolescence

Sardanovskaya (married Olonovskaya) Anna Alekseevna (1896-1921), Yesenin's youthful passion, teacher, relative of the Konstantinovsky priest Fr. Ivan (Smirnov). Perhaps Yesenin's acquaintance with Sardanovskaya dates back to 1906

Ekaterina Alexandrovna Yesenina (1905 - 1977) - the eldest of the two sisters of the poet Sergei Yesenin. She was mostly known to readers as her brother's personal secretary, the custodian of part of his archive. And very little was written about her as the wife of Vasily Nasedkin, a close friend of Yesenin, a poet who was repressed in 1937 and executed by the NKVD in a fabricated "case of writers."

Sister! Sister!
There are so few friends in life!
Like everyone else
I have a seal...
If your heart is tender
Wearily,
Make him forget and shut up.

From S. Yesenin's poem "Letter to Sister", dedicated to E. Yesenina.1925.

Sister Ekaterina was 10 years younger than Sergei Yesenin. In 1911, when Sergei was already 15, Alexander's younger sister was born. A year later, Sergei moved from his native village of Konstantinov, Ryazan province, to his father in Moscow and rarely saw his sisters. However, he was interested in their life, asked about them in letters to his mother. When Catherine in 1917-18. studied in Moscow, often visited her. Finally, in 1922, Catherine finally moved to Moscow, and since then her fate has been inextricably linked with the fate of her brother.

Sergei Yesenin with sisters Katya and Shura. 1912

Catherine became Sergei's assistant in his literary and publishing affairs. Their relationship was not easy: Sergei followed the “moral character” of his sister and her hobbies, and she, a smart, lively and beautiful girl, could be frivolous, and even believed that her brother should support her. However, Ekaterina, who was not even twenty, really took care of her brother: she pulled him out of drunken companies, talked to the editors, and “knocked out” fees. In 1925, she married a close friend of Sergei, the poet Vasily Nasedkin. After the death of her brother, she took up the preservation of his legacy.

Ekaterina Yesenina. OK. 1922

In 1930, Nasedkin was summoned to the OGPU to the Lubyanka. They questioned why he left the Bolshevik Party in 1921. Vasily Nasedkin did not hide the fact that he "did not agree with the policy in the countryside and in literature." “Despite the party’s decision to put an end to excesses in collectivization Agriculture, these inflections exist. It needs to be done more carefully. I approve the liquidation of the kulaks as a class, but without the mistakes of dispossessing the middle peasants. I do not agree with the party's policy in the field of literature: it pushes whole line fellow travelers to hack and opportunism. This is caused by the Party's excessive ideological pressure on the writer to write only on topical issues. In my speeches, including at the Herzen House, when speaking about ideology, I used to say “idiocy”* (* Archival criminal case of V. F. Nasedkin R-1. No. 9650. URAF of the FSB of Russia). There were no punitive sanctions against him then. But the regime was tightening, and it was risky to have such a fact in the biography. This automatically placed Nasedkin in the ranks of a politically suspicious element ...

Ekaterina and Sergei Yesenin. 1925

Ekaterina Yesenina's husband was arrested on October 26, 1937. The NKVD falsified the so-called "case of writers" - "a terrorist group of writers associated with the counter-revolutionary organization of the right." They were charged, among other things, with preparing an assassination attempt on Stalin.

Ekaterina Yesenina with her husband Vasily Nasedkin and children Natalia and Andrey. 1937

A long list of “underground” workers, well-known and not very well-known, headed by the writer Valerian Pravdukhin, fell under the rink of repression: Alexei Novikov-Priboy (Novikov), Ivan Pribludny (Yakov Ovcharenko), Sergei Klychkov, Yuri Olesha, Yesenin’s still young son Yuri, and many other. Their whole fault lay in the fact that, gathering at different times and in different companies in coffee houses and apartments, poets and writers talked, including on seditious topics. They gossip about what is happening in the country, of course, they allow themselves to disagree with something and criticize the order.

On March 15, 1938, the military collegium of the Supreme Court (VKVS) sentenced the husband of Ekaterina Yesenina to death. On the same day he was shot. The Yesenin family found out about this only many years later - then, in 1938, the NKVD presented them with false information about the sentence "to 10 years without the right to correspondence."

***

Vasily Nasedkin, who worked before his arrest as a literary editor in the Kolkhoznik magazine, provided for his family, since Ekaterina kept house and raised children - Andrei and Natalia. Now, after her husband's arrest, Ekaterina had to get a job as a registrar in a polyclinic, then as a Mosconvert envelope counter in order to somehow feed her children.

Soon the security officers came to Ekaterina Yesenina with a warrant for the arrest and search of an apartment on the Arbat, signed by Beria himself. The operative who led the Yesenina-Nasedkina case kept asking more and more about the anti-Soviet activities of her husband (already shot).

From the interrogation protocol:

<...>“Answer: Vasily Fedorovich Nasedkin from December 1925 to October 27, 1937 was my husband. I know nothing about his anti-Soviet activities.

Question: You are not telling the truth. You have concealed and continue to conceal the facts known to you. We encourage you to be honest.

Answer: Once again I declare that I do not know anything ... "

The investigation ended in less than a month. There was no trial at all. From the Decree of the Special Meeting (OSO) under the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR dated November 1, 1938: “Yesenin E.A. - as a socially dangerous element - to deprive him of the right to reside in 15 points for a period of 5 years ... "(Archival criminal case E. A. Yesenina No. 18098. URAF FSB of Russia).

Ekaterina Aleksandrovna spent two months in the Butyrka prison. The company of cellmates - the wives of ambassadors and military leaders, the wife of Yezhov, in whose presence her husband was executed. The children were first sent to the Danilovsky receiver, and then sent to various orphanages in Penza, according to the then-current special order to separate brothers and sisters - children of "enemies of the people".

***

Due to a serious illness - severe asthma attacks, Ekaterina Yesenina was allowed to settle in the Ryazan region and pick up her children from orphanages. 11-year-old Andrei and 5-year-old Natalia were brought to Konstantinovo.

Ekaterina Alexandrovna Yesenina herself wrote about this time: “In 1939, I was expelled from Moscow to Ryazan, along with other wives of ‘enemies of the people’. There were many of us. I remember, with the arrival of our train in Ryazan, we walked from the station through the streets of the city in a continuous stream to the large building of the NKVD. There we went through registration, then everyone [expelled] in Ryazan somehow settled down.”

The daughter of Ekaterina Yesenina, Natalia Vasilievna, recalled: “Mom was ordered to report to the NKVD in Ryazan on the 15th day of each month. There she was told to urgently get a job. She joined the Konstantinovsky collective farm "Krasnaya Niva" (she worked at the playground at the collective farm - approx.).

Then she found a job in the city, took her son Andrey and left for Ryazan, where they lived on the outskirts of the city [on the 2nd line of Lenposelk Ryazan] in the Zerechensky family, and on Sunday they came to us [in the village of Ryazan]. Konstantinovo]. Mom worked as an accountant at the [factory] Ryazselmash until the war began ... "

***

“Mom became a donor - she donated blood for wounded soldiers. During this three years I received a work card instead of an employee and a good lunch on the day of blood donation, until I discovered that I was losing my sight. Then she was banned from donating, but for the four of us (grandmother, Tatyana Fedorovna, came to them from Konstantinovo - ed.), it was a source of livelihood. They also gave vodka to the work card, which my mother exchanged for milk and other products.

One day, Yesenina's friend, the writer Lidia Seifullina, the wife of the repressed Valerian Pravdukhin, sent her some money to Ryazan, which was very helpful. “Mom didn’t have a penny left, she came to despair. At this time, there was a knock on the door - the postman brought the transfer, and we were saved, ”recalls the daughter of Ekaterina Yesenina.

***

The then neighbor of the Yesenins, Ryazan Vasily Pervushkin, who studied at the Ryazan 17th school together with Ekaterina Alexandrovna’s son Andrei, recalled: “... Ekaterina Alexandrovna was cheerful in public, always cheerful, loved to joke. Who would have thought that she had to endure? She dressed simply - in sweatshirts, felt boots, smoked "goat's legs".<...>

Andrey, by the way, was very similar to his uncle. And several times, when we were together, he recited Yesenin's poems to me by heart. He sincerely admired his uncle and once said to me: “Now they have forgotten about him, but you will see, the time will come and the whole world will read him!”

The term of Ekaterina Alexandrovna's exile ended in 1943. In 1944, she was about to leave<...>: "I will go to restore the name of my brother and ours, we suffered innocently."

***

In 1945, Ekaterina Alexandrovna Yesenina with her children - at the request of her and Yesenin's friend, party worker Pyotr Chagin, Beria was allowed to return, but not to Moscow, - to the Moscow region, to Skhodnya.

Yesenina hardly acquired part of the hut. Chagin helped her find a job. But soon her health completely weakened: prison and exile, poverty, humiliation, and shocks had an effect. At forty-two, Ekaterina Alexandrovna became an invalid of the 2nd group.

In August 1956, at the request of Ekaterina Yesenina and the petition of the Deputy Secretary of the Board of the Union of Writers of the USSR K. Voronkov, writer Yu.N. Libedinsky and the granddaughter of Leo Tolstoy, Yesenin's last wife Sophia Tolstaya, managed to achieve a complete posthumous rehabilitation of Vasily Nasedkin. Ekaterina Alexandrovna Yesenina herself was rehabilitated in September 1956.

Ekaterina, Konstantin and Alexandra Yesenin

All subsequent years, Ekaterina Alexandrovna restored her husband’s creative heritage, including his previously forbidden work “One Year with Yesenin”, she herself wrote memoirs about her brother Sergei Yesenin. She was one of the initiators of the creation of the Literary and Memorial Museum of S. A. Yesenin in the village of Konstantinovo, Rybnovsky District, Ryazan Region. In the 1960s and 1970s, Ekaterina Alexandrovna Yesenina took part in the preparation of collected works and many collections of her brother's poems. She died of myocardial infarction in 1977 in Moscow.

From: esenin.ru

Sister! Sister!
There are so few friends in life!
Like everyone else
I have a seal...
If your heart is tender
Wearily,
Make him forget and shut up.

From S. Yesenin's poem "Letter to Sister", dedicated to E. Yesenina.1925.

Sergei Yesenin with sisters Katya and Shura. 1912

Catherine became Sergei's assistant in his literary and publishing affairs. Their relationship was not easy: Sergei followed the "moral image" of his sister and her hobbies, and she - a smart, lively and beautiful girl - could be frivolous, and even believed that her brother should support her. However, Ekaterina, who was not even twenty, really took care of her brother: she pulled him out of drunken companies, talked to the editors, and “knocked out” fees. In 1925, she married a close friend of Sergei, the poet Vasily Nasedkin. After the death of her brother, she took up the preservation of his legacy.

Ekaterina Yesenina. OK. 1922

In 1930, Nasedkin was summoned to the OGPU to the Lubyanka. They questioned why he left the Bolshevik Party in 1921. Vasily Nasedkin did not hide the fact that he "did not agree with the policy in the countryside and in literature." “Despite the decision of the party to put an end to the excesses in the collectivization of agriculture, these excesses exist. It needs to be done more carefully. I approve the liquidation of the kulaks as a class, but without the mistakes of dispossessing the middle peasants. I do not agree with the Party's policy in the field of literature: it pushes a number of fellow travelers to hack work and opportunism. This is caused by the party's excessive ideological pressure on the writer - to write only on topical issues. In my speeches, including at the Herzen House, when speaking about ideology, I used to say “idiocy”* (* Archival criminal case of V. F. Nasedkin R-1. No. 9650. URAF of the FSB of Russia). There were no punitive sanctions against him then. But the regime was tightening, and it was risky to have such a fact in the biography. This automatically placed Nasedkin in the ranks of a politically suspicious element ...

Ekaterina and Sergei Yesenin. 1925

Ekaterina Yesenina with her husband Vasily Nasedkin and children Natalia and Andrey. 1937

On March 15, 1938, the military collegium of the Supreme Court (VKVS) sentenced the husband of Ekaterina Yesenina to death. On the same day he was shot. The Yesenin family found out about this only many years later - then, in 1938, the NKVD presented them with false information about the sentence "to 10 years without the right to correspondence."

Vasily Nasedkin, who worked as a literary editor in the Kolkhoznik magazine before his arrest, provided for his family, since Ekaterina kept house and raised children - Andrei and Natalia. Now, after her husband's arrest, Ekaterina had to get a job as a registrar at a polyclinic, then as a Mosconvert envelope counter in order to somehow feed her children.

Soon the security officers came to Ekaterina Yesenina with a warrant for the arrest and search of an apartment on the Arbat, signed by Beria himself. The operative who led the Yesenina-Nasedkina case kept asking more and more about the anti-Soviet activities of her husband (already shot).

From the interrogation protocol:

<...>“Answer: Vasily Fedorovich Nasedkin from December 1925 to October 27, 1937 was my husband. I know nothing about his anti-Soviet activities.

Question: You are not telling the truth. You have concealed and continue to conceal the facts known to you. We encourage you to be honest.

Answer: Once again I declare that I do not know anything ... "

The investigation ended in less than a month. There was no trial at all. From the Decree of the Special Meeting (OSO) under the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the USSR of November 1, 1938: “Yesenin E.A. - as a socially dangerous element - to deprive him of the right to live in 15 points for a period of 5 years ...” (Archival criminal case E. A. Yesenina No. 18098. URAF FSB of Russia).

Ekaterina Aleksandrovna spent two months in the Butyrka prison. The company of cellmates - the wives of ambassadors and military leaders, the wife of Yezhov, under whom her husband was executed. The children were first sent to the Danilovsky receiver, and then sent to various orphanages in Penza, according to the then-current special order to separate brothers and sisters - children of "enemies of the people".
Due to a serious illness - severe asthma attacks, Ekaterina Yesenina was allowed to settle in the Ryazan region and pick up her children from orphanages. 11-year-old Andrei and 5-year-old Natalia were brought to Konstantinovo.

Ekaterina Alexandrovna Yesenina herself wrote about this time: “In 1939, I was expelled from Moscow to Ryazan, along with other wives of ‘enemies of the people’. There were many of us. I remember, with the arrival of our train in Ryazan, we walked from the station through the streets of the city in a continuous stream to the large building of the NKVD. There we went through registration, then everyone [expelled] in Ryazan somehow settled down.”

The daughter of Ekaterina Yesenina, Natalia Vasilievna, recalled: “Mom was ordered to report to the NKVD in Ryazan on the 15th day of each month. There she was told to urgently get a job. She joined the Konstantinovsky collective farm Krasnaya Niva (she worked at the playground at the collective farm - approx.).

Then she found a job in the city, took her son Andrey and left for Ryazan, where they lived on the outskirts of the city [on the 2nd line of Lenposelk Ryazan] in the Zerechensky family, and on Sunday they came to us [in the village of Ryazan]. Konstantinovo]. Mom worked as an accountant at the [factory] Ryazselmash until the war began ... "
“Mom became a donor - she donated blood for wounded soldiers. During this three years I received a work card instead of an employee and a good lunch on the day of blood donation, until I discovered that I was losing my sight. Then she was banned from donating, but for the four of us (grandmother, Tatyana Fedorovna, came to them from Konstantinovo - approx.), it was a source of livelihood. They also gave vodka to the work card, which my mother exchanged for milk and other products.

One day, Yesenina's friend, the writer Lidia Seifullina, the wife of the repressed Valerian Pravdukhin, sent her some money to Ryazan, which was very helpful. “Mom didn’t have a penny left, she came to despair. At this time, there was a knock on the door - the postman brought the transfer, and we were saved, ”recalls the daughter of Ekaterina Yesenina.

The then neighbor of the Yesenins, Ryazan Vasily Pervushkin, who studied at the Ryazan 17th school together with Ekaterina Alexandrovna's son Andrei, recalled: “... Ekaterina Alexandrovna was cheerful in public, always cheerful, loved to joke. Who would have thought that she had to endure? She dressed simply - in sweatshirts, felt boots, smoked "goat's legs".<...>

Andrey, by the way, was very similar to his uncle. And several times, when we were together, he recited Yesenin's poems to me by heart. He sincerely admired his uncle and once said to me: “Now they have forgotten about him, but you will see, the time will come and the whole world will read him!”

Ekaterina, Konstantin and Alexandra Yesenin

Sister! Sister!
There are so few friends in life!
Like everyone else
I have a seal...
If your heart is tender
Wearily,
Make him forget and shut up.

From S. Yesenin's poem "Letter to Sister", dedicated to E. Yesenina.1925.

Sergei Yesenin with sisters Katya and Shura. 1912

Ekaterina Yesenina. OK. 1922

In 1930, Nasedkin was summoned to the OGPU to the Lubyanka. They questioned why he left the Bolshevik Party in 1921. Vasily Nasedkin did not hide the fact that he "did not agree with the policy in the countryside and in literature." “Despite the decision of the party to put an end to the excesses in the collectivization of agriculture, these excesses exist. It needs to be done more carefully. I approve the liquidation of the kulaks as a class, but without the mistakes of dispossessing the middle peasants. I do not agree with the Party's policy in the field of literature: it pushes a number of fellow travelers to hack work and opportunism. This is caused by the Party's excessive ideological pressure on the writer to write only on topical issues. In my speeches, including at the Herzen House, when speaking about ideology, I used to say “idiocy”* (* Archival criminal case of V. F. Nasedkin R-1. No. 9650. URAF of the FSB of Russia). There were no punitive sanctions against him then. But the regime was tightening, and it was risky to have such a fact in the biography. This automatically placed Nasedkin in the ranks of a politically suspicious element ...

Ekaterina and Sergei Yesenin. 1925

Ekaterina Yesenina with her husband Vasily Nasedkin and children Natalia and Andrey. 1937

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Ekaterina, Konstantin and Alexandra Yesenin