The famous and beloved Russian futurist poet Vladimir Mayakovsky was born in the town of Baghdadi, which is located in the Kutaisi province, on July 19, 1893. He is widely known as a great playwright, a talented journalist, a wonderful screenwriter and director, an excellent artist. Mayakovsky’s creative biography made him a symbol of his era. Vladimir Vladimirovich is one of the most famous artists of the Soviet period.
Short biography of Mayakovsky
A poet comes from a noble family. His father served as a forester in the Transcaucasian Erivan province. In 1902, Vladimir was sent to study at the city gymnasium. However, four years later, the poet's father suddenly dies. After this tragic event, the family moves to live in Moscow.
In the capital, Mayakovsky, passing the exams, becomes a student of the fifth classical gymnasium. But already in 1908 he was expelled from school due to non-payment.
Even in the Caucasus, Vladimir participates in student demonstrations. After he was in Moscow, fate brings him with young people involved in the dissemination of revolutionary ideas. He becomes one of the members of the RSDLP and carries out propaganda work among the workers, for which he is arrested several times.
Mayakovsky's biography indicates that it was this circumstance that influenced the formation of the poet as a revolutionary. During the years 1908-09, Vladimir Vladimirovich managed to go to jail three times and was released due to lack of evidence. However, for eleven months he had to be in custody. It was during this time that the first verses written by Mayakovsky appeared.
The biography and work of Vladimir Vladimirovich are closely interconnected. Stay in prison was the beginning of his becoming a poet.
After leaving prison, Mayakovsky enters the preparatory class at the Stroganov School, where he studies with the artists S. Zhukov and P. Kelin. After some time, the poems of the young poet are already published in almanacs. But soon, for participating in unauthorized public speeches by the futurists, he was expelled from this educational institution as well.
In 1912, a manifesto published by V. Mayakovsky and V. Khlebnikov, etc., was published in one of the Gilea group's almanacs. It stated the importance of creating a new literary language that meets the modern era and is not subordinate to traditional literary canons. The embodiment of these ideas was the staging in 1913 in St. Petersburg of the tragedy "Vladimir Mayakovsky", where the author acts as the lead actor and director. At the same time, a collection of poems entitled "I" is being published.
During the First World War, he created works that denounced the meaninglessness and brutality of hostilities. One of them is Cloud in Pants, which predicts the coming revolution.
Mayakovsky's biography indicates the active social activity of the poet. In 1918, he created the Comfoot association, which means communist futurism, and is published in the weekly Art of the Commune.
In 1920, Vladimir Vladimirovich joined the LEF creative association, where he met S. Tretyakov and B. Pasternak and other figures of various fields of art.
In the twenties, Mayakovsky works simultaneously in several areas. He is a correspondent for a number of Soviet newspapers. In order to promote new value guidelines, he writes ditties, poems for propaganda posters and topical satire. During this period, the poems "Good!" and "Vladimir Ilyich Lenin."
The poet often visits foreign countries, where he draws ideas for creating "anti-bourgeois" poems. He travels around the country a lot, reading his best works from the stage. The performances of Vladimir Vladimirovich, designed for a simple listener, were accompanied by jokes and improvisations.
Mayakovsky's biography indicates that the 30s were a turning point in the life of the poet. In addition to failures in his personal life and constant conflict with the outside world, he is threatened by loss of voice. The last straw was the failed performance of the play "Bath". These and other factors provoked Mayakovsky to suicide.
After the death of the poet, his works fall under the ban, which only in 1939 at the request of L. Brik was lifted by I. Stalin.