Alexander Esenin-Volpin

Alexander Sergeyevich Esenin-Volpin (Russian:  Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Есе́нин-Во́льпин​ (help·info), born May 12, 1924) is a prominent Russian-American poet and mathematician. Born on May 12, 1924 in the former Soviet Union, he was a notable dissident, political prisoner, poet, and mathematician. Volpin was a leader of the human rights movement and he spent total of fourteen years incarcerated and repressed by the Soviet authorities in prisons, psikhushkas and exile. His mother, Nadezhda Volpin, was a poet and translator from French and English. His father was Sergei Yesenin, a Russian poet, who never knew his son. He and his mother moved from Leningrad to Moscow in 1933. In 1946 Esenin-Volpin graduated from Moscow State University. He wrote and often publicly read his poetry. Esenin-Volpin was free from conscription due to "psychiatric" reasons. His psychiatric imprisonments took place in 1949 for "anti-Soviet poetry", in 1959 for smuggling abroad samizdat, including his Свободный...