The Effect of Persian Literature on the Works of Yesenin, the Great Russian Poet

مطالعات زبان و ترجمه

Article 3, Volume 47, Issue 3, October 2014, Pages 41-64   

Document Type: Research Article

DOI: 10.22067/lts.v47i3.41938

Authors

Hosseinali Mostafavigero^{* 1}; Marjan Erfanian Saffar²

¹Department of Russian Language and Literature, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran

²Department of Russian Language and Literature, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The relations between Iran and Russia turn to their ancient history. The first business contracts between them after Islam was in SAMANIAN period. Businees relations itself expand the cultural communications between two countries. Cultural communications expansion between Iran and Russia turns to Qajar period in 18 century and early nineteenth century.
After eighteenth century (Catherine II period) Russian literature acquaintance to the estern threads specially Iran literature and Iranian extended and translations like Saaidi poems at nineteenth century published in Russian journals. More than 120 of Russian writers and poets were interested in eastern literature some of their famous it were Pushkin, Lermontov,Tolstoy. One of the poets who was interested in Iran literature was Sergei Yesnin.
In this paper not only we tried to introduce the poet in brief but also analyse his famous work “The Persian Motives”.

Keywords

Persian Literature; Russian Literature; Ghazal Poem; Rose; The Persian Motives

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