ESENIN SERGEI (1895-1925) Persidskiye motivy [Persian Motifs]. Moscow: Sovremennaya Rossiya, [1925]. - 48, [2] pages; 18x13 cm. Edition of 5,000 copies. In a typographic publisher's cover. In good condition. Tears and loss of fragments, restoration of cover edges and spine.

The cycle "Persian Motifs" includes 15 poems written during three trips by S. Esenin to Georgia and Azerbaijan, and published in 1924 and 1925 in the newspapers "Trudovoy Batum," "Bakinskiy Rabochiy," and "Zarya Vostoka." The first separate edition, titled "Persian Motifs," included only ten of them along with the poem "Moy put" (My Path) and four additional poems not thematically connected to the cycle. This is the last collection of poems by S.A. Esenin published during his lifetime, as the book was released after May 26, 1925. Later, only a small book called "Izbrannye stikhi" (Selected Poems) in the "Biblioteka 'Ogonka'" (Ogoniok Library) series was published (until June 14, 1925). The first separate edition of the anthology. Sergei Alexandrovich Esenin (1895-1925) was a Russian poet and writer. He was one of the prominent figures of the Silver Age, representing the movement of new peasant poetry and lyrical imagery in his later period. Bibliography: Turchinsky, p. 190; Lesman, No. 871; Rozanov, No. 2734.