Isakhan Isakhanli, the vice-rector for Administration and Student Affairs at Khazar University and a professor in the Department of Languages and Literatures, took part in a conference themed “Sergey Yesenin: Context, Poetics, Textual Studies,” marking the 129th anniversary of the famous Russian poet’s birth from September 19-21, 2024.

The conference began on September 19 at the M. Gorky Institute of Literature in Moscow, continued on the 20th at the Ryazan State University named after S. Yesenin in Ryazan , and concluded on the 21st at the Yesenin Museum in Konstantinovo, the poet’s birthplace.

At the conference, Isakhan Isakhanli delivered a plenary speech on the topic “Aliagha Kurchayli as the most prominent translator of Sergey Yesenin’s works into Azerbaijani.” His speech was received with great interest. Prof. Nataliya Igorevna Shubnikova-Guseva, chair of the Yesenin Committee at the M. Gorky Institute of Literature, and Maksim Skorokhodov, the committee’s scientific secretary and doctor of philological sciences, spoke highly of Isakhan Isakhanli and valued his collaboration with the Yesenin Committee.

Then in the second half of the day, a presentation of printed and prepared publications about Yesenin took place at the Konstantinovo Scientific and Cultural Center. Isakhan Isakhanli provided detailed information about an ongoing project nearing completion – the publication of a book featuring poems dedicated to Yesenin by Azerbaijani poets.

As part of the event’s cultural program, an excursion to the Konstantinovo State Reserve Museum was organized. Attendees toured Yesenin’s house museum, the school he once attended, and the house museum of Lidiya Kashina, the landowner’s daughter from Konstantinovo who inspired the main character in Yesenin’s poem ( the prototype of the main character in Yesenin's poem ) “Anna Snegina.” They also visited other sites connected to Yesenin.