Vladimir Mayakovsky

Known for WritingBorn 1893-07-19Died 1930-04-14Bagdati, Russian Empire

Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Маяко́вский; 19 July [O.S. 7 July] 1893 – 14 April 1930) was a Soviet poet, playwright, artist, and actor. During his early, pre-Revolution period leading into 1917, Mayakovsky became renowned as a prominent figure of the Russian Futurist movement, being among the signers of the Futurist manifesto, A Slap in the Face of Public Taste (1913), and writing such poems as "A Cloud in Trousers" (1915) and "Backbone Flute" (1916). Mayakovsky produced a large and diverse body of work during the course of his career: he wrote poems, wrote and directed plays, appeared in films, edited the art journal LEF, and created agitprop posters in support of the Communist Party during the Russian Civil War. Though Mayakovsky's work regularly demonstrated ideological and patriotic support for the ideology of the Communist Party and a strong admiration of Vladimir Lenin, Mayakovsky's relationship with the Soviet state was always complex and often tumultuous. Mayakovsky often found himself engaged in confrontation with the increasing involvement of the Soviet State in cultural censorship and the development of the State doctrine of Socialist realism. Works that contained criticism or satire of aspects of the Soviet system, such as the poem "Talking With the Taxman About Poetry" (1926), and the plays The Bedbug (1929) and The Bathhouse (1929), were met with scorn by the Soviet state and literary establishment. In 1930 Mayakovsky committed suicide. Even after death his relationship with the Soviet state remained unsteady. Though Mayakovsky had previously been harshly criticized by Soviet governmental bodies such as the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers (RAPP), Premier Joseph Stalin described Mayakovsky after his death as "the best and the most talented poet of our Soviet epoch."Read more

Movies & web series

What Is Good and What Is Bad

Drama in the Futurists' Cabaret No. 13

The Bath House

Jews on the Land

Shackled by Film

Forward March, Time!

The Young Lady and the Hooligan

Lace

Black and White

Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker

O Coração do Cinema

The Man Mayakovsky

Bene! Quattro diversi modi di morire in versi: Majakovskij-Blok-Esènin-Pasternak

To You — the Attacking Class!

From Bell to Bell

The Lady and the Hooligan

You!

Mystery-Bouffe

World Without a Game

The Flying Proletarian

Mysterie-buffa

Прочти и катай в Париж и Китай

The Story of Vlas the Lazy One

Кем быть?

How Mayakovsky Worked

Oktyabryuhov and Dekabryuhov

The Three

Born Not For Money