The publisher Axelrod and the poet Khorikov (an unknown inscription by Sergei Yesenin)

Yesenin had a wide range of contacts. It included writers, politicians, cultural figures, publishers. Among them was the addressee of Yesenin's autograph, I. Axelrod (1901-1977). Yesenin communicated with him from 1921 to 1925. Yesenin's inscription is published for the first time. The autograph was made on Yesenin's book Treryadnitsa, published in Moscow in 1921. The text of the inscription says, "To dear Axelrod with the best memories of him and of Khorikov. S. Yesenin, 1921". Axelrod's relatives have the book autographed by Yese-nin. The article contains biographical information about Axelrod and his relatives. Axelrod's wife L. Vladimirskaya in her youth was engaged in the Moscow school of Isadora Duncan. The first daughter of Axelrod and Vladimirskaya received her name in honor of one of Yesenin's most famous poems Inonia. Yesenin often visited Axelrod, read poetry in his apartment (Apt. 10 at 17, Rozhdestvenskiy Boulevard, Moscow). Yesenin's papers preserved Axelrod's home and work phone numbers. In 1925 Yesenin invited the publisher to his wedding with S. Tolstaya. After the death of the poet Axelrod told friends about his acquaintance with Yesenin. During the Great Patriotic War Axelrod was the editor of the frontline newspaper Syn otechestva. He published it in the difficult conditions of military operations. Axelrod was awarded the Order of the Red Star and the Order of the Patriotic War II degree. After the war he headed printing companies. The other name in the inscription by Yesenin was N. Khorikov. He was a Ryazan poet, one of the leaders of the writers' organizations of Ryazan Province, the organizer of poetic nights, the author and compiler of literary collections. Khorikov was an advocate of acoitism. By this word he understood protest against sexual intercourse in life and literature. His ideas were embodied in verse. He published little. Several works of Khorikov are dedicated to the memory of S. Yesenin. Some poems of this poet are not published, they are cited in whole or in part in the article. In the work archival, previously printed materials are introduced into scientific use. Memories of Khorikov and Axelrod are given. This expands the notion of the literary process of the 1920s in the Soviet Union. Consideration of the biography of Yesenin's contemporaries is topical in connection with the preparation of the Yesenin's Encyclopedia. This work is currently being conducted in Moscow at the A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In the Yesenin's Encyclopedia special entries will be devoted to many of the poet's contemporaries.

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