these verses: "in this life it is not hard to die, / to mold life is more difficult." In a later lecture on Yesenin, he said that the revolution demanded "that we glorify life." However, Mayakovsky himself would commit suicide in 1930. Cultural impact Yesenin's suicide triggered an epidemic of copycat suicides by his mostly female fans. For example, Galina Benislavskaya, his ex-girlfriend, killed herself by his graveside in December 1926. Although he was one of Russia's most popular poets and had been given an elaborate state funeral, some of his writings were banned by the Kremlin during the reigns of Joseph Stalin and Nikita Khrushchev. Nikolai Bukharin's criticism of Yesenin contributed significantly to the banning. Only in 1966 were most of his works republished. Today Yesenin's poems are taught to Russian schoolchildren; many have been set to music and recorded as popular songs. His early death, coupled with unsympathetic views by some of the literary elite, adoration by ordinary people, and sensational behavior, all contributed to the enduring and near mythical popular image of the Russian poet. Ukrainian composer Tamara Maliukova Sidorenko (1919-2005) set several of Yesenin’s poems to music. Bernd Alois Zimmermann included his poetry in his Requiem für einen jungen Dichter (Requiem for a Young Poet), completed in 1969. The Ryazan State University is named in his honor. Multilanguage editions Anna Snegina (Yesenin's poem translated into 12 languages; translated into English by Peter Tempest) Works The Scarlet of the Dawn (1910) The high waters have licked (1910) The Birch Tree (1913) Autumn (1914) Russia (1914) A Song About a Dog/The B*tch (1915) I'll glance in the field (1917) I left the native home (1918) Hooligan (1919) Hooligan's Confession (1920) (Italian translation sung by Angelo Branduardi) I am the last poet of the village (1920) Prayer for the First Forty Days of the Dead (1920) I don't pity, don't call, don't cry (1921) Pugachev (1921) Land of Scoundrels (1923) One joy I have left (1923) A Letter to Mother (1924) Tavern Moscow (1924) Confessions of a Hooligan (1924), A Letter to a Woman (1924), Desolate and Pale Moonlight (1925) The Black Man (1925) To Kachalov's Dog (1925) Who Am I, What Am I (1925) Goodbye, my friend, goodbye (1925) (His farewell poem) References External links Collection of Sergey Yesenin's Poems in English: Sergey Yesenin. Collection of Poems Sergey Yesenin. Collection of Poems. Bilingual Version The Fugue Aesthetics of