Who was Sergei Yesenin, the only Russian poet whose popularity rivals Pushkin's? Nadezhda Volpin, a former lover of the poet, said,"[He] was a true Russian," she said. "And not a 19th- or 20th-century Russian, but an eighth-century Russian, a primordial Russian."

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