Biography
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."
Filmography
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Movies 20
Writer 13
Ten Lives of a Cat: A Film about Chris Marker (2023)
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Bene! Quattro diversi modi di morire in versi: Majakovskij-Blok-Esènin-Pasternak (1977)
Forward March, Time! (1977)
The Lady and the Hooligan (1970)
Mystery-Bouffe (1969)
You! (1969)
What's Well And What's Bad (1969)
World Without a Game (1966)
The Bath House (1962)
Mysterie-buffa (1961)
This Is How Mayakovsky Began (1958)
Black and White (1932)
Lace (1928)
Oktyabryuhov and Dekabryuhov (1928)
Jews on the Land (1927)
The Young Lady and the Hooligan (1918)
Shackled by Film (1918)
Nye dlya deneg radivshisya (1918)
Drama in the Futurists' Cabaret No. 13 (1914)
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GenderMale
Birthday1893-07-19
Deathday1930-04-14 (36 years old)
Birth NameВлади́мир Влади́мирович Маяко́вский
Birth PlaceBaghdati, Georgia
ChildrenHelen Patricia Thompson
CitizenshipsRussian Empire, Soviet Union
Also Known AsВладимир Маяковский
AwardsLenin Komsomol Prize
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