Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 8:45 PM – The presentation of the book Sergei Yesenin, Poesie, with a preface by Alexei Derevjaghin, Noah’s Ark 2025, edited and translated by Corrado Facchinetti, will take place in the Sala degli Affreschi of the Tadini Academy in Lovere (entrance from Piazza Garibaldi 5). This new edition is dedicated to one of the most intense and lyrical voices in twentieth-century Russian poetry. This edition stands out for the quality of the translation’s poetic rendering and the accompanying notes, which help place the work within the historical and cultural context of Russia between revolution and disenchantment.

A central figure in early twentieth-century literature, Sergei A. Yesenin (Konstantinovo, 1895 – Leningrad, 1925) successfully intertwined in his work the elegiac dimension of the Russian peasant world, the tragic sense of modernity in a conflictual relationship with the Revolution, and a lyrical tension that still resonates with contemporary readers today.

The presentation will be an opportunity to explore Yesenin’s poetic and human profile, the central themes of his writing, the relationship between poetry and historical transformations in early twentieth-century Russia, and also to discuss the lexical and critical choices underlying Facchinetti’s translation.

His poetry, suspended between nostalgia, rebellion, and poignant musicality, conveys a universe in which nature, love, solitude, and individual destiny blend in a language of extraordinary evocative power.

The work edited by Facchinetti offers a selection spanning the key periods of Yesenin’s work, offering the Italian public an accessible tool for approaching the author’s complexity. Thanks to the collaboration with the Olive a pArte cultural association, Francesco Mognetti will read a selection of texts.

In conversation with the author: Marco Albertario

Text by Accademia Tadini.
Cover image from the poster