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Vladimir Mayakovsky
Russian and Soviet poet (1893–1930) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Маяко́вский, IPA: [məjɪˈkofskʲɪj] (listen); 19 July [O.S. 7 July] 1893 – 14 April 1930) was a Soviet Russian poet, playwright, artist, and actor. Before the Russian Revolution until 1917, Mayakovsky became an important part of the Russian Futurist movement. He signed the Futurist manifesto, A Slap in the Face of Public Taste (1913). He wrote poems. His famous poems are "A Cloud in Trousers" (1915) and "Backbone Flute" (1916). Mayakovsky made many works in his career. He wrote many poems, wrote and directed plays, was in many movies, edited the art journal LEF, and made agitprop posters for the Communist Party during the Russian Civil War.
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Born | Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky 19 July [O.S. 7 July] 1893 Baghdati, Kutais, Russian Empire |
Died | 14 April 1930(1930-04-14) (aged 36) Moscow, Soviet Union |
Alma mater | Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry, Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture |
Genre | Poetry |
Subject | New Soviet man |
Literary movement | Russian Futurism Cubo-Futurism |
Years active | 1912–1930 |
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Mayakovsky's work showed that he supported the Bolsheviks and supported Vladimir Lenin.[1][2] However, he often had issues with the Soviet state. Mayakovsky did not like their cultural censorship and Socialist realism. He made some works that satirized or attacked the Soviet Union. These included the poem "Talking With the Taxman About Poetry" (1926), and the plays The Bedbug (1929) and The Bathhouse (1929). The Soviet state did not like this.
In 1930, Mayakovsky killed himself. After his death, Joseph Stalin said that Mayakovsky was one of the most important poets in the Soviet Union.[3]