Vpervye sobrany voedino razroznennye i protivorechivye fakty o slozhnyh i tragicheskih sudbah chetyreh detey Sergeya Esenina. Velikiy russkiy poet slovno do kapli vybral u buduschih pokoleniy tvorcheskiy talant, i oni, lishennye bozhestvennogo dara, skitalis po zhizni, perezhivaya odin udar sudby za drugim. Starshiy syn YUriy, rozhdennyy ot grazhdanskoy zheny poeta Anny Izryadnovoy, byl rasstrelyan v 1937 godu kak souchastnik antistalinskogo zagovora. Aktrisa Zinaida Rayh rodila Eseninu doch Tatyanu i syna Kostyu. Konstantin Sergeevich Esenin posle voyny dolgoe vremya rabotal v stroitelstve, potom zanyalsya zhurnalistikoy, no nichem osobenno sebya ne proyavil i tiho skonchalsya v 1986 godu. Tatyana tozhe rabotala zhurnalistkoy i perezhila brata na shest let. Posledniy syn Aleksandr, rozhdennyy ot perevodchitsy Nadezhdy Volpin, perezhil ssylku, psihushki, i v 1972 godu emigriroval v Ameriku, gde zhivet po sey den.
