Gevorg Grigoryan (Yerevan) - Honored Artist of Armenia, one Yesenin abominable period in the life of the poet, author of memoirs about Yesenin and several of his portraits.
"... I returned to Yesenin again and again ... Over the years I began to perceive it a little different - deeper, in my opinion. But be that as it may, my Yesenin changed with me, while retaining the charm of his youth, which eventually - and this is probably naturally - found in my eyes a special shine, had the companion of his talent. The last portrait of Esenin I wrote in this year [1970 - AM] ... I wanted to convey, as I understand it now, and that I hold dear in it, and in memory of him, and in his youth and mine. "
At my request, to sell his portrait Yesenin he replied: "... to leave the portrait can not and do not copy ..."
Diana Ukleba (Yerevan) - wife of Gevorg Grigoryan, an artist and poet. I met with Yesenin in Tiflis. The author's portrait Yesenin (1988).
After refusing to sell me Grigoryan portrait Yesenina I did not leave hopes to get his collection of any other portrait of a poet, written by no less lively and inspired. I decided to order a portrait of the widow Yesenin Grigorian, a remarkable artist Diana Ukleba. She also met with Yesenin in their homeland - in Georgia. Ukleba gave its consent to the portrait was painted in 1988. In the same year he took part in the solo exhibition of Diana Ukleba in Moscow - in the Central House of Cinematographers. After the exhibition, in 1989, I, along with his daughter traveled to Yerevan, where he got this wonderful picture. Young Yesenin looks at her thoughtfully and touching (almost gently). In his hands - a book, but the look in his large eyes taken aside: if he thought after reading, to interpret something. Maybe in a book written by his life?
Diana Ukleba well remembered Yesenin and telling details of the poet's life in the Caucasus. For many years we have had good relations, meetings, conversations, until the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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