About the book: a year / Exactly 92 years ago, Sergei Yesenin arrived in Tashkent. A book about this trip was written by Sergei Zinin, who spent many years studying the life and work of the brilliant Russian poet. Sergei Ivanovich Zinin (December 5, 1935 — April 4, 2013) — head. Department of the Faculty of Philology of Tashkent State University, head. Department of the Russian Language of the Institute of Language and Literature of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, deputy of the Supreme Council of Uzbekistan and the Oliy Majlis of Uzbekistan. From 1994 to 2002, director of the Russian Cultural Center of Uzbekistan (Tashkent). The author of a detailed study about Sergei Yesenin’s stay in Central Asia and Tashkent in May 1921. Sergei Zinin was born on December 5, 1935 in the city of Chirchik, Tashkent region of Uzbekistan. Having been fascinated by the work of Sergei Yesenin since his student years, Sergei Ivanovich Zinin collected hundreds of editions of the Russian poet’s works in Russian and other languages, monographs, magazine and newspaper publications about Yesenin’s work. A significant part of his Yesenin collection was transferred by him to the Tashkent Museum of Sergei Yesenin, one of the initiators and founder of which he was. For many years, he studied all the circumstances of Sergei Yesenin’s trip to Tashkent and Samarkand in May 1921. In 2003, S.I. Zinin wrote the monograph “Sergei Yesenin’s Trip to Turkestan.” He has compiled the most complete bibliography of works and publications about Sergei Yesenin in the republican and local press of Uzbekistan and Tashkent, and is also compiling documents under the general title “Sergei Yesenin and his entourage,” which is supposed to provide information about all persons who were directly or indirectly connected with the life and work of the Russian poet until 1940. Since 1992, special issues “The World of Yesenin” have been published in Tashkent on the initiative of S.I. Zinin and by order of the Council of the Yesenin Museum in Tashkent»