They’ve been in all the papers.
Famed San Francisco-born dancer Isadora Duncan, 44, and her new husband, famed Russian poet Sergei Esenin, about to turn 27, make the news by arriving here for the American leg of her dance tour.
Isadora Duncan and Sergei Esenin
Isadora left America when she was 20, and has been living, dancing and teaching in Europe. Last year, the Russian government invited her to move to Moscow and open a dance school.
Last fall, at the studio of a mutual friend, she met the handsome young poet Sergei, already a celebrity in his country. Despite the fact that Isadora speaks French, English and German, but no Russian, and he speaks only Russian, they moved in together almost immediately and married in May. For the wedding Isadora managed to alter her passport to cut their age difference in half.
The newlyweds are in the news here for Isadora’s return to her native country with her new young husband.
Throughout the tour they have been in the news for violent, drunken fights in restaurants and wrecked hotel rooms.
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