Volpin Yesenin Biography

Soviet and American mathematician, philosopher, poet, one of the leaders of the dissident and human rights movement in the USSR, a pioneer of legal education in the dissident circles of Soviet society. The son of the great Russian poet Sergei Yesenin. Alexander Yesenin-Volpin was born on May 12 in the city of Leningrad. His father, the poet Sergei Yesenin, committed suicide when Alexander was one year old.

The mother was a poetess and translator Nadezhda Volpin. Parents were friends in the literary workshop, but they were not married. In the year, together with his mother, he moved from Leningrad to Moscow, where in the year he graduated with honors from the Mechanical and Mathematics Department of Moscow State University in the army was not called up due to a psychiatric diagnosis.

In the year, having graduated from the graduate school of the Research Institute of Mathematics at Moscow State University and defending his thesis in mathematical logic, he went to work in Chernivtsi. Alexander Yesenin-Volpin in childhood with his mother in the year for “anti-Soviet poetry” was placed for forced treatment in the Leningrad Special Personnel, in September, as a “socially dangerous element” was sent to the Karaganda region for a period of five years.

Amnesty after the death of Stalin in the year, soon after which he became known as a mathematician specializing in the field of intuitionism. In the year, he was again placed in a special psychic hospital, where he spent about two years. He, like his father, wrote poems that he read with friends.

His poems, spreading in Samizdat and published in the West, signed by the name Volpin. In the year in New York, the book of Yesenin-Volpin “Spring Liszt” was published, which, in addition to the verses, entered his “Free Philosophical Treatise”. The basis of the mathematical and philosophical views of Yesenin -Volpin is extreme skepticism - the denial of all the abstract concepts of God, infinity accepted on the belief.

From the beginning of the 10th, this principle he applies to the field of law, the first of the Soviet dissidents, putting forward the idea and need to protect human rights by strictly following Soviet laws from the authorities. This rule becomes one of the fundamental concepts of human rights movement. In the year, Yesenin -Volpin became the organizer of a “promotion rally”, which took place on December 5 on Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow - the first public demonstration of protest in the post -war USSR.

The main slogan of the rally, which was attended by a person, including the KGB operatives, was a demand for the publicity of the court over the arrested shortly before by Andrei Sinyavsky and Julius Daniel. The protesters also held posters with an appeal "Respect the Soviet Constitution." At the rally, “civil circulation”, which had previously spread to the rally organizers and sympathizers, was heard as a leaflet as a leaflet.

Directly from the square, Yesenin-Volpin was taken away for interrogation. Vladimir Bukovsky, relying on the secret report of the KGB of the USSR found by him in the archive in the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, believes that the campaign of the so -called punitive psychiatry against dissidents began with the mention of this report on February 27 of the year of Peter Grigorenko and Alexander Volpin as persons who were “previously brought to criminal liability and released due to mental illness.” In February, Yesenin-Volpin was again imprisoned in a special psychic.

In this regard, a number of well-known mathematicians signed the so-called 99 letter with a protest against the violent hospitalization of Yesenin-Wolpin. In the year he translated into Russian and wrote a preface to P. Cohen’s book “Theory of sets and a continuum-hypothesis theory”, outlining the evidence of the independence of the continuum hypothesis from the rest of the theory of sets.

The Samizdat is distributed by him “Memo for those who are to be interrogated”, the key thesis of which was the statement that the norms of Soviet procedural law are quite suitable in order to legally evade complicity in the persecution of dissent, without resorting to lies or locking. In May, at an urgent proposal of the Soviet authorities, he emigrated to the United States, where he worked at the University of Buffalo, then at the University of Boston.

The author of the theorem in the field of diadical spaces that received his name. By the summer anniversary of Volpin in the year, dissident Vladimir Bukovsky made a proposal to award Volpin by the Sakharov Prize for his merits in human rights movement. Bukovsky said that the “disease” of Yesenin-Wolpin, from which he was “treated” in psychiatric hospitals, is called “pathological truthfulness”.

He lived in Boston, Massachusetts. From the year he repeatedly came to Russia. Yesenin -Wolpin is one of the heroes of the documentary film “They Choose Freedom” dedicated to the history of the dissident movement in the USSR. He died on March 16 in the city of Boston. Wolpina nee Hayutin. When quoting and using materials, a link to Stuki-Druki-Druki pits. When quoting and using Hyperlink Hyperlink Hyperlink on the Internet or Stuki-Druki.