“Poets” and “Rulers” in B. A. Sadovskoy’s Works by S. N. Pyatkin

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“To Dear Deacon Kolya ...”: Newly Found Inscript of Sergey Yesenin by I. V. Kudryashov, S. N. Pyatkin

“…However, even so, it has an undoubted symbolic meaning, appealing to the Scythian philosophy, which united the poets in 1915—1917, being one of the signs of their spiritual kinship, the feeling of which Yesenin will carry through his entire creative life.…”
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“...Friend of My Youth”: Image of a Dog in the Lyrics of S. A. Yesenin by S. N. Pyatkin

“…The article examines the artistic and functional status of the image of a dog’s motive in Yesenin’s lyrics in the context of the idea of an organic unity of art and life, which largely determines the poet’s creative philosophy. Three poems are considered in which the image of a dog is the central figure of the text and the constructive basis of its ideological and artistic content: “Song of the Dog” (1915), “Son of a Bitch” (1924), and “Kachalov’s Dog” (1925). …”
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What is Nikolai Klyuev’s “Hung Upside Down” Crying for? (On Poetic Epitaph to Victims of White Terror) by I. V. Kudryashov, S. N. Pyatkin

“…Klyuev’s poem “Hung upside down...”, created by the poet during the Vytegorsk period of his life (1918—1922). …”
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Why Did the Canary Die? (Sergei Yesenin about Nikolai Klyuev) by I. V. Kudryashov, S. N. Pyatkin

“…It is proved that in the poem “In the Caucasus”, ironically putting himself in the place of a “dead canary”, a poet who categorically does not accept imitation in poetry, not only declares that singing “from the voice of someone else” is destructive for any talent, but also clearly makes it known that he is “not a canary,” imitating Klyuev, that their paths diverged long ago, that the canary in him “died” in his youth; and the self-ironic, harmless lines about his mentor in the poem “In the Caucasus” testify to Yesenin’s creative maturity as a great national poet who has comprehended his significance and place in Russian Parnassus.…”
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Nikolai Klyuev’s Epistolary Review of Sergei Yesenin’s Poem ‘Pugachev’: “Dark Places” of Multidimensional Evaluation by S. N. Pyatkin, I. V. Kudryashov

“…This article presents a historical and literary analysis of the epistolary review by the peasant poet Nikolai Klyuev (1884—1937) of the dramatic poem ‘Pugachev’ (1922) by S. …”
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Historical Narrative of Yesenin’s Poem “Pugachev” as Dialogue-Rivalry with Pushkin by S. N. Pyatkin

“…The author argues that in a polemical dialogue between Pushkin and Yesenin, expressed in a declarative treatment of the later poet to one of the most important predecessor in ethical and artistic terms, one should see defence of his own positions in contemporary literature, typical for Yesenin’s works of these years.…”
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