Vladimir Vladimirovich
Mayakovsky
Born on July 7, 1893 in one of the Georgian villages - Baghdati. The Mayakovsky family was classified as foresters; in addition to their son Vladimir, there were two more sisters in their family, and two brothers died at an early age.
Vladimir Mayakovsky received his primary education at the Kutaisi gymnasium, where he studied since 1902. In 1906, Mayakovsky and his family moved to Moscow, where his path to education continued at gymnasium No. 5. But, due to the inability to pay for his studies at the gymnasium, Mayakovsky was expelled.
The beginning of the revolution did not leave Vladimir Vladimirovich aside. After being expelled from the gymnasium, he joins the RSDLP (Russian Social Democratic Party).
After active activity in the party, in 1909 Mayakovsky was arrested, where he wrote his first poem. Already in 1911, Mayakovsky continued his education and entered the painting school in Moscow. There he is passionately interested in the work of the futurists.
1912 for Vladimir Mayakovsky was the year he began creative life. It was at this time that his first poetic work"Night". The following year, 1913, the poet and writer created the tragedy “Vladimir Mayakovsky,” which he himself directed and acted in main role.
Vladimir Mayakovsky's famous poem “A Cloud in Pants” was completed in 1915. Further creativity Mayakovsky, in addition to anti-war themes, contains satirical motifs.
A proper place in Vladimir Vladimirovich’s creative path is given to writing scripts for films. So, in 1918 he starred in 3 of his films.
The following year, 1919, was marked for Mayakovsky by the popularization of the theme of revolution. This year, Mayakovsky took an active part in the creation of posters “Windows of Satire ROSTA”.
Vladimir Mayakovsky is the author of the creative association “Left Front of the Arts”, in which he later began to work as an editor. This magazine published works famous writers of that time: Osip Brik, Pasternak, Arvatov, Tretyakov and others.
Since 1922, Vladimir Mayakovsky has been traveling around the world, visiting Latvia, France, Germany, the USA, Havana and Mexico.
It was while traveling that Mayakovsky gave birth to a daughter from an affair with a Russian emigrant.
The largest and true love Mayakovsky was Liliya Brik. Vladimir was close friends with her husband, and then Mayakovsky moved to live in their apartment, where it began whirlwind romance with Lilia. Lilia's husband, Osip, practically lost her to Mayakovsky.
Mayakovsky did not officially register any of his relationships, although he was extremely popular among women. It is known that in addition to his daughter, Mayakovsky has a son.
In the early 30s, Mayakovsky’s health suffered greatly, and then a series of failures awaited him: the exhibition dedicated to the 20th anniversary of his work was doomed to failure, and the premieres of “The Bedbug” and “Bathhouse” did not take place. State of mind Vladimir Vladimirovich left much to be desired.
Thus, the gradual depression of his condition and mental health, on April 14, 1930, the poet’s soul could not stand it and Mayakovsky shot himself.
Many objects are named in his honor: libraries, streets, metro stations, parks, cinemas and squares.
Vladimir Mayakovsky is the flame of the twentieth century. His poems are inseparable from his life. However, behind the cheerful Soviet slogans of Mayakovsky the revolutionary, one can discern another Mayakovsky - a romantic knight, a theurgist, a crazy genius in love.
Below is a short biography of Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky.
Introduction
In 1893, the future great futurist, Vladimir Mayakovsky, was born in the village of Bagdati in Georgia. They said about him: a genius. They shouted about him: a charlatan. But no one could deny that he had an incredible influence on Russian poetry. He created a new style, which was inseparable from the spirit of Soviet times, from the hopes of that era, from the people living, loving and suffering in the USSR.
This was a man of contradiction. They will say about him:
This is a complete mockery of beauty, tenderness and God.
They will say about him:
Mayakovsky has always been and remains the best and most talented poet of our Soviet era.
By the way, this beautiful photo- fake. Mayakovsky, unfortunately, never met Frida Kahlo, but the idea of their meeting is wonderful - they are both like riot and fire.
One thing is certain: whether a genius or a charlatan, Mayakovsky will forever remain in the hearts of the Russian people. Some like him for the glibness and impudence of his lines, others - for the tenderness and desperate love that hides in the depths of his style. His broken, crazy style, breaking from the shackles of writing, which is so similar to real life.
Life is a struggle
Mayakovsky's life was a struggle from beginning to end: in politics, in art and in love. His first poem is the result of struggle, the consequence of suffering: it was written in prison (1909), where he was sent for his Social Democratic beliefs. He started his creative path, admiring the ideals of the revolution, and finished it, mortally disappointed in everything: everything in it is a tangle of contradictions, a struggle.
He ran like a red thread through history and art and left his mark in subsequent works. It is impossible to write a modernist poem without referring to Mayakovsky.
The poet Vladimir Mayakovsky is, in his own words:
But there is something else behind this rough, militant façade.
short biography
When he was only 15 years old, he joined the RSDLP(b), and was enthusiastically engaged in propaganda.
Since 1911, he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
Major Poems (1915): "Cloud in Pants", "Spine Flute" and "War and Peace". These works are full of delight for the coming, and then the coming, revolution. The poet is full of optimism.
1918-1919 - revolution, he actively participates. Produces posters "Windows of Satire ROSTA".
In 1923, he became the founder of the creative association LEF (Left Front of the Arts).
Mayakovsky's later works “The Bedbug” (1928) and “Bathhouse” (1929) are a sharp satire on Soviet reality. Mayakovsky is disappointed. Perhaps this was one of the reasons for his tragic suicide.
In 1930, Mayakovsky committed suicide: he shot himself, leaving suicide note, in which he asked not to blame anyone. He is buried on Novodevichy Cemetery.
Art
Irina Odoevtseva wrote about Mayakovsky:
Huge, with a round, short-cropped head, he looked more like a strong hooker than a poet. He read poetry completely differently than was customary among us. Rather like an actor, although - which the actors never did - not only observing, but also emphasizing the rhythm. His voice - the voice of a meeting tribune - either thundered so loudly that the windows rattled, or cooed like a dove and babbled like a forest stream. Stretching out his huge hands to the stunned listeners in a theatrical gesture, he passionately suggested to them:
Do you want me to go mad from meat?
And, like the sky, changing colors,
Do you want me to become inexpressibly gentle, -
Not a man, but a cloud in his pants?..
These lines reveal Mayakovsky’s character: he is first of all a citizen, not a poet. He is first and foremost a tribune, an activist at rallies. He is an actor. His early poetry is, accordingly, not a description, but a call to action, not a statement, but a performative. Not so much art as real life. This applies at least to his social poems. They are expressive and metaphorical. Mayakovsky himself admitted that he was impressed by Andrei Bely’s poem “He launched a pineapple into the heavens”:
low bass.
launched a pineapple.
And, having described the arc,
illuminating the surroundings,
the pineapple was falling,
beaming into the unknown.
But there is also a second Mayakovsky, who wrote without being impressed by either Bely or the revolution - he wrote from the inside, desperately in love, unhappy, tired - not the warrior Mayakovsky, but the gentle knight Mayakovsky, an admirer of Lilichka Brik. And the poetry of this second Mayakovsky is strikingly different from the first. The poems of Vladimir Mayakovsky are full of piercing, desperate tenderness, rather than healthy optimism. They are sharp and sad, in contrast to the positive cheerfulness of his Soviet poetic appeals.
Mayakovsky the warrior proclaimed:
Read! Envy! I am a citizen! Soviet Union!
Mayakovsky the knight rang with shackles and sword, vaguely reminiscent of the theurgist Blok, drowning in his purple worlds:
The fence of reason is broken by confusion,
I pile up despair, burning feverishly...
How did two of these get along? different people in one Mayakovsky? It is difficult to imagine and impossible not to imagine. Don't be this one internal struggle, there would not have been such a genius.
Love
These two Mayakovskys got along probably because they were both driven by passion: for one it was a passion for Justice, and for the second for a femme fatale.
Perhaps it is worth dividing the life of Vladimir Mayakovsky into two main periods: before and after Lilichka Brik. This happened in 1915.
She seemed like a monster to me.
This is how the famous poet Andrei Voznesensky wrote about her.
But Mayakovsky loved this one. With a whip...
He loved her - fatal, strong, “with a whip,” and she said about him that when she made love with Osya, she locked Volodya in the kitchen, and he “was eager, wanted to come to us, scratched at the door and cried...”
Only such madness, incredible, even perverted suffering could give rise to poetic lines of such power:
Don’t do this, dear, good, let’s say goodbye now!
So the three of them lived, and eternal suffering spurred the poet on to new lines of genius. Besides this, there was, of course, something else. There were trips to Europe (1922-24) and America (1925), as a result of which the poet had a daughter, but Lilichka always remained the same, the only one, until April 14, 1930, when, having written “Lilya, love me,” the poet shot himself, leaving a ring with LOVE engraved on it - Liliya Yuryevna Brik. If you twirled the ring, you got the eternal “lovelovelove.” He shot himself in defiance of his own lines, his eternal declaration of love, which made him immortal:
And I won’t throw myself into the air, and I won’t drink poison, and I won’t be able to pull the trigger above my temple...
Creative heritage
The work of Vladimir Mayakovsky is not limited to his dual poetic heritage. He left behind slogans, posters, plays, performances and film scripts. He actually stood at the origins of advertising - Mayakovsky made it what it is now. Mayakovsky came up with a new poetic meter - the ladder - although some argue that this meter was generated by the desire for money: editors paid for poems line by line. One way or another, it was an innovative step in art. Vladimir Mayakovsky was also an actor. He himself directed the film “The Young Lady and the Hooligan” and played the main role there.
However, in last years he was haunted by failure. His plays "The Bedbug" and "The Bathhouse" failed and he slowly fell into depression. An adept of cheerfulness, fortitude, and struggle, he scandalized, quarreled, and gave in to despair. And at the beginning of April 1930, the magazine “Print and Revolution” removed the greeting to the “Great Proletarian Poet” from print, and rumors spread: he had written himself off. This was one of the last blows. Mayakovsky took his failure hard.
Memory
Many streets in Russia, as well as metro stations, are named after Mayakovsky. There are Mayakovskaya metro stations in St. Petersburg and Moscow. In addition, theaters and cinemas are named after him. One of the largest libraries in St. Petersburg also bears his name. Also, a minor planet discovered in 1969 was named in his honor.
The biography of Vladimir Mayakovsky did not end after his death.
In Ladimir, Mayakovsky did not immediately start writing poetry - at first he was going to become an artist and even studied painting. The poet's fame came to him after meeting avant-garde artists, when David Burliuk greeted the young author's first works with delight. Futurist group, “Today's Lubok”, “Left Front of the Arts”, advertising “Windows of GROWTH” - Vladimir Mayakovsky worked in many creative associations. He also wrote for newspapers, published a magazine, made films, created plays and staged performances based on them.
Vladimir Mayakovsky with his sister Lyudmila. Photo: vladimir-mayakovsky.ru
Vladimir Mayakovsky with his family. Photo: vladimir-mayakovsky.ru
Vladimir Mayakovsky in childhood. Photo: rewizor.ru
Vladimir Mayakovsky was born in Georgia in 1893. His father served as a forester in the village of Baghdadi, and later the family moved to Kutaisi. Here the future poet studied at the gymnasium and took drawing lessons: the only Kutaisi artist, Sergei Krasnukha, taught him for free. When the wave of the first Russian revolution reached Georgia, Mayakovsky - as a child - participated in rallies for the first time. His sister Lyudmila Mayakovskaya recalled: “The revolutionary struggle of the masses also influenced Volodya and Olya. The Caucasus experienced the revolution especially acutely. There everyone was involved in the struggle, and everyone was divided into those who participated in the revolution, those who definitely sympathized with it and those who were hostile.”.
In 1906, when Vladimir Mayakovsky was 13 years old, his father died from blood poisoning: he injured his finger with a needle while stitching papers. Until the end of his life, the poet was afraid of bacteria: he always carried soap with him, took a collapsible basin with him when traveling, carried cologne with him for rubbing and carefully monitored hygiene.
After the death of the father, the family found itself in a difficult situation. Mayakovsky recalled: “After my father’s funeral, we have 3 rubles. Instinctively, feverishly, we sold out of tables and chairs. We moved to Moscow. For what? There weren’t even any acquaintances”. In a Moscow gymnasium, the young poet wrote his first “incredibly revolutionary and equally ugly” poem and published it in an illegal school magazine. In 1909–1910, Mayakovsky was arrested several times: he joined the Bolshevik Party and worked in an underground printing house. At first, the young revolutionary was given “on bail” to his mother, and for the third time he was sent to prison. Mayakovsky later called confinement in solitary confinement “11 Butyrka months.” He wrote poetry, but the notebook with lyrical experiments - “stilted and tearful,” as the author assessed them - was taken away by the guards.
In conclusion, Mayakovsky read many books. He dreamed of a new art, a new aesthetics that would be radically different from the classical one. Mayakovsky decided to study painting - he changed several teachers and a year later he entered Moscow school painting, sculpture and architecture. Here the young artist met David Burliuk, and later Velimir Khlebnikov and Alexei Kruchenykh. Mayakovsky again wrote poetry, which his new comrades were delighted with. Avant-garde authors decided to unite against the “old aesthetics,” and soon a manifesto of a new creative group appeared - “A Slap in the Face of Public Taste.”
David has the anger of a master who has surpassed his contemporaries, I have the pathos of a socialist who knows the inevitability of the collapse of old things. Russian futurism was born.
Vladimir Mayakovsky, excerpt from his autobiography “I Myself”
Futurists spoke at meetings - read poems and lectures on new poetry. For public speaking, Vladimir Mayakovsky was expelled from the school. The famous Futurist tour took place in 1913–1914: creative Group She toured Russian cities with performances.
Burliuk traveled and promoted futurism. But he loved Mayakovsky, stood at the cradle of his poetry, knew his biography to the smallest detail, knew how to read his things - and therefore, through David Davidovich’s butads, Mayakovsky’s appearance appeared so material that one wanted to touch him with his hands.
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Upon arrival in the city, Burliuk first organized an exhibition of futuristic paintings and manuscripts, and in the evening gave a report.Futurist poet Pyotr Neznamov
Vladimir Mayakovsky, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Alexander Rodchenko and Dmitry Shostakovich at the rehearsal of the play “The Bedbug”. 1929. Photo: subscribe.ru
Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lilya Brik in the film “Chained by Film.” 1918. Photo: geometria.by
Vladimir Mayakovsky (third from left) and Vsevolod Meyerhold (second from left) at the rehearsal of the play “Bathhouse”. 1930. Photo: bse.sci-lib.com
Vladimir Mayakovsky was interested not only in poetry and painting. In 1913, he made his debut in the theater: he himself wrote the tragedy “Vladimir Mayakovsky”, staged it on stage and played the main role. In the same year, the poet became interested in cinema - he began writing scripts, and a year later he starred for the first time in the film “Drama in the Futurist Cabaret No. 13” (the picture has not survived). During the First World War, Vladimir Mayakovsky was a member of the avant-garde association “Today's Lubok”. Its participants - Kazimir Malevich, David Burliuk, Ilya Mashkov and others - painted patriotic postcards for the front, inspired by traditional popular print. Simple colorful pictures were created for them and short poems were written in which they ridiculed the enemy.
In 1915, Mayakovsky met Osip and Lilya Brik. The poet later noted this event in his autobiography with the subtitle “the most joyful date.” Lilya Brik on long years became Mayakovsky's lover and muse, he dedicated poems and poems to her, and even after breaking up he continued to declare his love. In 1918, they starred together in the film Chained by Film - both in leading roles.
In November of the same year, the premiere of Mayakovsky’s play “Mystery Bouffe” took place. It was staged at the Musical Drama Theater by Vsevolod Meyerhold, and designed in the best traditions of the avant-garde by Kazimir Malevich. Meyerhold recalled working with the poet: “Mayakovsky was knowledgeable in very subtle theatrical, technological things that we, directors, know, which we usually study for a very long time in different schools, practically in the theater, etc. Mayakovsky always guessed every right and wrong stage decision, precisely as a director.”. The “revolutionary folk performance,” as translator Rita Wright called it, was staged several more times.
A year later, the intense era of “GROWTH Windows” began: artists and poets collected hot topics and produced propaganda posters - they are often called the first Soviet social advertising. The work was intense: both Mayakovsky and his colleagues more than once had to stay late or work at night in order to release the batch on time.
In 1922, Vladimir Mayakovsky headed literary group“Left Front of the Arts” (later the “left” in the name was replaced by “revolutionary”), and soon the magazine of the creative association of the same name. Its pages published prose and poetry, photographs by avant-garde photographers, bold architectural projects and news of “leftist” art.
In 1925, the poet finally broke up with Lilya Brik. He went on tour to France, then went to Spain, Cuba and the USA. There Mayakovsky met translator Ellie Jones, and a short but stormy romance broke out between them. In the fall, the poet returned to the USSR, and in America he soon had a daughter, Helen-Patricia. After returning from the USA, Vladimir Mayakovsky wrote the cycle “Poems about America” and worked on scripts for Soviet films.
Vladimir Mayakovsky. Photo: goteatr.com
Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lilya Brik. Photo: mayakovskij.ru
Vladimir Mayakovsky. Photo: piter.my
In 1928–1929 Mayakovsky wrote satirical plays"Bedbug" and "Bath". Both premieres took place at the Meyerhold Theater. The poet was the second director, he oversaw the design of the performance and worked with the actors: he read fragments of the play, creating the necessary intonations and placing semantic accents.
Vladimir Vladimirovich was very interested in all kinds of work. He threw himself into his work. Before the premiere of “Bath” he was completely exhausted. He spent all his time in the theater. Wrote poems and inscriptions for auditorium for the production of "Bath". I supervised their hanging myself. Then he joked that he was hired at the Meyerhold Theater not only as an author and director (he worked a lot with the actors on the text), but also as a painter and carpenter, since he himself painted and nailed down something. As a very rare author, he was so passionate and passionate about the performance that he participated in the smallest details of the production, which, of course, was not at all part of his authorial functions.
Actress Veronica Polonskaya
Both plays caused a stir. Some viewers and critics saw the works as a satire on bureaucracy, while others saw them as criticism of the Soviet system. “Bathhouse” was staged only a few times, and then it was banned until 1953.
The loyal attitude of the authorities towards the “main Soviet poet” gave way to coolness. In 1930, he was not allowed to travel abroad for the first time. Official criticism began to fiercely attack the poet. He was reproached for satire in relation to phenomena that were supposedly defeated, for example, the same bureaucracy, and bureaucratic delays. Mayakovsky decided to hold an exhibition “20 years of work” and present the results of his many years of work. He himself selected newspaper articles and drawings, arranged books, and hung posters on the walls. The poet was helped by Lilya Brik, his new beloved actress Veronica Polonskaya and an employee of the State Literary Museum Artemy Bromberg.
On the opening day, the guest hall was packed. However, as Bromberg recalled, no representatives of literary organizations came to the opening. And there were no official congratulations to the poet on his twentieth anniversary of work either.
I will never forget how, in the House of Press, at Vladimir Vladimirovich’s exhibition “Twenty Years of Work,” which for some reason was almost boycotted by the “big” writers, we, several people from Smena, literally stood around the stands for days, physically suffering because of how sad and stern face walked through the empty halls of the big, A tall man, with his hands behind his back, he walked back and forth, as if expecting someone very dear and becoming more and more convinced that this dear person would not come.
Poet Olga Berggolts
The lack of recognition was aggravated by personal drama. Vladimir Mayakovsky, in love with Polonskaya, demanded that she leave her husband, leave the theater and live with him in new apartment. As the actress recalled, the poet would create scenes, then calm down, then again begin to be jealous and demand an immediate solution. One of these explanations became fatal. After Polonskaya left, Mayakovsky committed suicide. In his suicide letter, he asked “comrade government” not to leave his family: “My family is Lilya Brik, mother, sisters and Veronica Vitoldovna Polonskaya. If you give them a tolerable life, thank you.”.
After Mayakovsky's death, the entire archive of the poet went to Brik. Lilya Brik tried to preserve the memory of his work, wanted to create a memorial room, but constantly ran into bureaucratic obstacles. The poet was almost never published. Then Brik wrote a letter to Joseph Stalin. In his resolution, Stalin called Mayakovsky “the best and most talented poet of the Soviet era.” The resolution was published in Pravda, Mayakovsky’s works began to be published in huge editions, and streets and squares of the Soviet Union were named after him.
Vulgarity, without challenging it in life, challenged it in death. But living, excited Moscow, alien to petty literary disputes, stood in line at his coffin, without anyone organizing this line, spontaneously, by itself recognizing the unusualness of this life and this death. And lively, excited Moscow filled the streets on the way to the crematorium. And living, excited Moscow did not believe his death. He still doesn’t believe it.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky is talented and one of the most famous poets 20th century. Interesting Facts about Mayakovsky they will tell about the versatility of his personality. Without exaggeration, this man had enormous artistic talent. But some events of his fate have remained a mystery to this day.
1.Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was born in Georgia.
2.Three times in his entire life Mayakovsky was arrested.
3. This poet enjoyed enormous success among women.
4. Despite being married to another man, Lilya Yuryevna Brik was main muse and a woman in Mayakovsky’s life.
5. Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was never officially married, but he had two children.
6. Mayakovsky’s dad died of blood poisoning. And it was after this tragedy that Mayakovsky himself was always afraid of catching an infection.
7. Mayakovsky always carried a soap dish with him and washed his hands regularly.
8. This man’s invention is a poem written with a “ladder”.
10. Mayakovsky liked to play billiards and cards, which allows us to judge his love for gambling.
11. In 1930, Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky shot himself, having written a suicide note 2 days before.
12.The coffin for this poet was made by sculptor Anton Lavinsky.
13. Mayakovsky had two sisters and two brothers. The first brother died at a very young age, and the second at 2 years old.
14. Personally, Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky starred in several films.
16. The pedigree of Mayakovsky’s parents went back to the Zaporozhye Cossacks.
17. Mayakovsky always treated older people generously and with kindness.
18. Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky always gave money to needy old people.
19. Mayakovsky really liked dogs.
20. Mayakovsky created his first poems at a young age.
21. Mayakovsky usually composed poetry on the go. Sometimes he had to walk 15-20 km to come up with the right rhyme.
22.The body of the deceased poet was cremated.
23. Mayakovsky bequeathed all his own creations to the Brik family.
24. Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was considered an accomplice in the anti-religious campaign, where he promoted atheism.
25. For creating the “ladder”, many other poets accused Mayakovsky of cheating.
27. Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky had a daughter from a Russian emigrant Elizaveta Siebert, who died in 2016.
29. While in prison, he never stopped showing his complex character.
30. Mayakovsky was considered an ardent supporter of the revolution, even though he defended socialist and communist ideals.
31. Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky did not like futurists.
33. Mayakovsky’s works were translated into different languages peace.
34. Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was born into a family of mixed classes.
35. Due to the fact that Mayakovsky’s parents did not have money, the boy only completed his studies until the 5th grade.
36. Mayakovsky’s main needs were travel.
37. The poet had many not only admirers, but also enemies.
39. Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky committed suicide at the age of 36, and he prepared for it for a long time.
40. Mayakovsky met the liberal-democratic intelligentsia while studying at the Kutaisi gymnasium.
41.In 1908, Mayakovsky was expelled from the Moscow gymnasium due to the family’s lack of money.
42. Mayakovsky and Liliya Brik never hid their relationship, and Liliya’s husband was not against this outcome of events.
43. Mayakovsky’s bacteriophobia developed after the death of his father, who pricked himself with a pin and introduced infection.
44. Brik always begged Mayakovsky for expensive gifts.
45.Mayakovsky’s life was connected not only with literature, but also with cinema.
46. Major publications began publishing Mayakovsky’s works only in 1922.
47. Tatyana Yakovleva, another beloved woman of Mayakovsky, was 15 years younger than him.
48. A witness to the death of Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was Veronica Polonskaya, his last woman.
49. Mayakovsky’s death benefited only Liliya Brik, who received a cooperative apartment and money as an inheritance from the poet.
50.V early years Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky took part in revolutionary demonstrations.
52.In 1917, Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky had to lead a detachment of 7 soldiers.
53. In 1918, Mayakovsky had to star in 3 films of his own script.
54. Mayakovsky considered the years of the Civil War to be the best time of his life.
55.Mayakovsky’s longest journey was a trip to America.
56. For a long time, Polonskaya was considered the culprit in Mayakovsky’s death.
57. Polonskaya was also pregnant from Mayakovsky, who did not ruin her married life and had an abortion.
58.Dramaturgy also attracted Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky.
59.The poet created 9 film scripts.
60.After the death of Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky, his creations were strictly prohibited.
Mayakovsky Vladimir Vladimirovich (1893 – 1930)
Russian Soviet poet. Born in Georgia, in the village of Baghdadi, in the family of a forester.
From 1902 he studied at a gymnasium in Kutaisi, then in Moscow, where after the death of his father he moved with his family.
In 1908 he left the gymnasium, devoting himself to underground revolutionary work.
At the age of fifteen he joined the RSDLP(b) and carried out propaganda tasks. He was arrested three times, and in 1909 he was in Butyrka prison in solitary confinement. There he began to write poetry.
Since 1911 he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Having joined the Cubo-Futurists, in 1912 he published his first poem, “Night,” in the futurist collection “A Slap in the Face of Public Taste.”
The theme of the tragedy of human existence under capitalism permeates Mayakovsky’s major works of the pre-revolutionary years - the poems “Cloud in Pants”, “Spine Flute”, “War and Peace”. Even then, Mayakovsky sought to create poetry of “squares and streets” addressed to the broad masses. He believed in the imminence of the coming revolution.
Epic and lyric poetry, striking satire and ROSTA propaganda posters - all this variety of Mayakovsky’s genres bears the stamp of his originality. In the lyrical epic poems “Vladimir Ilyich Lenin” and “Good!” the poet embodied the thoughts and feelings of a person in a socialist society, the features of the era.
Mayakovsky powerfully influenced the progressive poetry of the world - Johannes Becher and Louis Aragon, Nazim Hikmet and Pablo Neruda studied with him.
IN later works“Bedbug” and “Bathhouse” sounds like a powerful satire with dystopian elements on Soviet reality.
In 1930 he committed suicide, unable to bear internal conflict with the “bronze” Soviet age, in 1930, he was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery.
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