Сергей Есенин - Собаке Качалова - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

The poem “Kachalov’s dog”, written by Sergey Yesenin in 1925, is one of the most famous works of the poet. It is based on real events: the dog Jim, to whom the author addressed these surprisingly tender and touching verses, really existed and lived in the house of the artist of the Moscow Art Theater Vasily Kachalov, who often had Yesenin. According to eyewitnesses, a very friendly and trusting relationship was established between the dog and the poet from the first days of acquaintance. The freedom -loving Jim always rejoiced at Yesenin’s arrival, who pamper him with various delicacies.

Nevertheless, the poem dedicated to Jim has a deeper and more tragic subtext. This already becomes clear from the first stanza, when Yesenin prevails the dog: "Let's be with you at the moon to quiet silent weather." What exactly lies behind such a spontaneous and ridiculous desire of a person who came to visit a friend, hoping to spend an evening in a pleasant company?

Researchers of the life and work of Sergei Yesenin connect the general mood of the poem “Kachalov’s dog”, filled with sadness and regret about what can no longer be returned, with the names of several women. One of them is the Armenian teacher Shagana Talyan, whom the poet met in Batumi on the eve of 1925. Many attributed to them a passionate novel and believed that the depressed state of the poet was due to the fact that he parted with his "Armenian muse." However, Shagana Talyan refutes these speculations, claiming that warm friendly relations connected her with the poet.

The second woman, who could cause the poet’s mental pain, is his wife, the dancer Isador Duncan, with whom Yesenin broke up after returning from a trip to the Caucasus. But this version was far from reality. After the death of the poet, it turned out that during his stay in Batumi, a romance with the journalist Galina Benelavskaya broke out, who was in love with the poet for many years, and he considered her his best and devoted friend. The story is silent about what Beneslavskaya and Yesenin met in Batumi. However, it is known for certain that soon Isadora Duncan, who was at that time in Yalta with tour, received a telegram from her husband’s mistress that he would no longer return to her.

Subsequently, everything happened, however, however, with Galina Beneslavskaya, the poet soon broke up, saying that he really appreciates her as a friend, but does not love, as a woman. And it was her, who also often visited Kachalov’s house, Yesenin wanted to ask for forgiveness for causing his best friend so many mental suffering.

It is worth noting that by the time of writing the poem “Kachalov’s dog”, the poet was already married to Sofya Tolstoy, and was very burdened by this marriage. A few months remained before his fatal death.

Therefore, in the last line of the poem, when the poet asked to lick his gently the hand that all the silent and sadder, ”he not only asks Benezlav’s forgiveness“ for what he was and was not to blame, ”but also says goodbye to her, as if foreseeing Ambulance. And it is precisely this premonition that stains the work of Kachalov’s dog with special tenderness and sadness. In addition, among the lines the loneliness of a man who was disappointed in love clearly appears among the lines and lost faith in the closest people. And-the acute feeling of guilt for the fact that the author could not make the truly happy those who sincerely loved him, despite the inconstancy of character, recklessness and the desire to be free from any obligations.