All Letters To Yesenin characters Listed With Descriptions

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LETTERS TO YESENIN

by Jim Harrison

Characters By Chapter

EDITOR:
Remy Hale

QUICK EDITION (QE)

CH	FIRST NAME	LAST NAME	DESCRIPTION
1	Sergei	Yesenin	Russian poet
		Leningrad	Former name of Saint Petersburg, Russia
	Isadora	Duncan	Dancer; married to Sergei Yesenin
3	Doctor Yuri	Zhivago	Young doctor raised by his aunt and uncle
	John	Berryman	American poet
	Francois	Villon	Celebrated 15th-century French poet
4	Gertrude	Stein	Influential American expatriate writer in Paris
	Sagane		Symbolic figure; muse reflecting beauty and chaos
5	Richard	Nixon	37th U.S. President
	Bella	Akhmadulina	Soviet-Russian poet
7	Judy	Garland	Tragic American celebrity; symbolic figure
8	Chief	Joseph	Indigenous leader who resisted U.S. expansion
9	Leonid	Brezhnev	Former General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR
	Joseph	Stalin	Revolutionary; former Soviet leader
11	Cerberus		Multi-headed dog from Greek mythology
	Fyodor	Dostoevsky	Russian novelist. Aka: D.W.
	Anna	Akhmatova	Russian-Soviet poet
13	Alexander	Pushkin	Russian poet and playwright
	Vladimir	Nabokov	Russian-American novelist and poet
14	Arthur	Rimbaud	French poet
16	Vaslav	Nijinsky	Russian ballet dancer and choreographer
17	John Paul	Getty	American industrialist
18	Janis	Joplin	American rock singer
	Friedrich	Nietzsche	German philosopher
19	Vladimir	Mayakovsky	Russian poet and playwright
20	Robert	Redford	American actor and director
22	William	Shakespeare	English playwright and poet
23	Robert	Frost	American poet
	Charles	Olson	American poet
	Simon	Magus	Religious figure from the 1st century AD
	Anna	Hjortsberg	Jim Harrison's daughter
24	James Douglas	Morrison	American singer-songwriter and poet. Aka: J.D.
	W.C.	Williams	American poet and physician
	Lauren	Hutton	American model and actress
	Paul	Bunyan	Giant lumberjack from American folklore
25	Boris	Pasternak	Russian-Soviet poet and novelist
28		Czarina	Female equivalent of a Czar; empress or queen
29	John	Calvin	French theologian
	Rachel		Symbolic figure representing femininity and earthly desire
30	Vladimir	Lenin	Former Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
	Sappho		Ancient Greek poet
	Hulda		Biblical prophetess known for wisdom
		Nevsky Prospekt	Main historic avenue of St. Petersburg
	Jimi	Hendrix	American guitarist and singer-songwriter

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