Yesenin. The poet is a “hooligan”?! The poet is a “nugget”?! In the West he was called either the “Russian nightingale” or a madman. His work evoked enthusiastic hysteria. His personal life was stormy, bright and scandalous. He was loved by his friends and adored by women. His fate contained many mysteries and secrets, many of which are revealed by the magnificent novel by Alexander Andreev! The image of Yesenin is complemented by the novel of his friend Anatoly Mariengof “ A novel without lies.” “A novel without lies” will be read with great interest and not without benefit; we will see those whom we know as artists from the side of them that we know least of all, and this is important for a more correct assessment of them.