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[[image:Isadora duncan.jpg|right|160px|Isadora Duncan]]

In [[1922]] she married the [[Russia]]n poet, [[Sergei Yesenin]] who was 17 years her junior. Yesenin accompanied her on a tour of Europe but his frequent drunken rages, that resultedresulting in the repeated destruction of furniture and the smashing of the doors and windows of their hotel rooms, brought a great deal of negative publicity. The following year he left Duncan and returned to Moscow where he soon suffered a mental breakdown and had to be institutionalized. Released from hospital, he immediately committed suicide on [[December 28]], [[1925]].

Duncan often wore scarves which trailed behind her, and this caused her [[List of unusual deaths|death in a freak accident]] in [[Nice]], [[France]]. She was killed when her scarf caught in the wheel of her friend Ivan Falchetto's [[Bugatti]] automobile, in which she was a passenger. As the driver sped off, the long cloth wrapped around the vehicle's axle. Ms. Duncan was yanked violently from the car and dragged for several yards before the driver realized what had happened. She died almost instantly from a broken neck.