S. Esenin's Poetic Ethnology (‘Pugachev')
The article is devoted to the poem «Pugachev» as an example of Esenin's poetic ethnology. Relations between the Russian nation and Turkic peoples and Mongolians populating the empire were interpreted by him in terms of ethnopsychological symbiosis. Esenin's opinions of Pugachev's revolt are presented in comparison with Pushkin`s description of the same events. Works of P. Vasilyev, Vs. Ivanov, B. Lavrenev, A. Platonov serve as literary context. The content of the poem correlates with the axiology of «Scythians» and the peasant rebel movement at the beginning of the 1920th.