Zinaida raikh konstantin yesenin biography

Russian actress whose murder in 1939 remains one of the mysteries of the Stalin era. Born in Russia in 1894; murdered in Moscow in July 1939; daughter of Nikolai Andreevich Raikh and Anna Ivanovna Viktorova; married Sergei Esenin (the poet); married Vsevolod Meyerhold (the theater director); children: (first marriage) Tatiana Esenin ; Konstantin "Kostia" Esenin.

Both of Russian actress Zinaida Raikh's husbands were major figures within the hothouse world of Soviet culture.

Born in 1894, the daughter of a German-born railway worker and an impoverished gentlewoman, Raikh was working as a secretary for the Socialist Revolutionary newspaper Delo Naroda when she met her first husband, the brilliant but unstable poet Sergei Esenin.

After having two children, she and Esenin separated. According to her son Konstantin (Kostia), Esenin was infuriated by Raikh's infidelities. Soon after the end of her first marriage, Raikh met and married the highly creati