“Tell Yermilov we should have completed the argument.”
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Vladimir Mayakovsky
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was a Russian 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. He co-signed the Futurist manifesto, A Slap in the Face of Public Taste (1913), and wrote such poems as A Cloud in Trousers (1915) and Backbone Flute (1916). Mayakovsky prod…
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entertainment · Russian poet (1893–1930) · poster artist · poet · actor · playwright · writer · painter · journalist · stage actor · film actor · director · also Vladimir Mayakovsky, Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky, Vladimir Maiakovsky, Vladimir Mayakov, Vladimir Vladimirovich Majakovski, Wladimir Wladimirowitsch Majakovskij
Born 7 July 1893 · Died 14 April 1930 · Q132964
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2026· 2 entries
“re-examining the ideology and practices of the so-called leftist art, rejecting individualism and increasing Art”
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2018· 1 entry
VOA rated the claim ““It’s believed that rap as a culture came from Black America. We got it in the 1990s. That’s not entirely true, however. The precursor of the Russian rap poetic tradition was Vladimir Mayakovsky, of course.”” False.
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2007· 1 entry
Craig Volk's stage bio-drama Mayakovsky Takes the Stage (based on his screenplay At the Top of My Voice) won the PEN-USA Literary Award for Best Stage Drama
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2003· 1 entry
The Australian poet Brook Emery published an annotated poem, "Mayakovsky", which provided an account of Mayakovsky's life, works, and influence, as part of his collection, Misplaced Heart
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1974· 1 entry
The Russian State Museum of Mayakovsky opened in the center of Moscow in the building where Mayakovsky resided from 1919 to 1930
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1967· 1 entry
The Taganka Theater staged the poetical performance Listen Here
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1958· 1 entry
“A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island”
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1956· 1 entry
“Reminiscences of Lenin by His Relatives”
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1941· 1 entry
For his poem "Mayakovsky Starts Here", which celebrated him as a poet of the revolution
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1938· 1 entry
The Mayakovskaya Metro Station was opened to the public
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1937· 1 entry
The Mayakovsky Museum (and library) were opened in Moscow
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1933· 1 entry
Career landmark: Nazi book burnings.
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1930· 8 entries
Died 1930-04-14.
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“Sem forma revolucionária não há arte revolucionária.”
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“Eu não forneço nenhuma regra para que uma pessoa se torne poeta e escreva versos. E, em geral, tais regras não existem. Chama-se poeta justamente o homem que cria estas regras poéticas.”
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“Amar não é aceitar tudo, aliás: onde tudo é aceito, desconfio que haja falta de amor.”
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Mayakovsky committed suicide
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“A poesia é uma forma de produção. Dificílima, complexíssima, porém produção.”
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“O tempo é roído por vermes cotidianos. As vestes poeirentas de nossos dias, cabe a ti, juventude, sacudi-las.”
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“Dizem que em algum lugar, parece que no Brasil, existe um homem feliz.”
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1929· 1 entry
The publishing house Goslitizdat released The Works by V
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1928· 2 entries
In Paris Mayakovsky had met Russian émigré Tatyana Yakovleva, a 22-year-old model working for the Chanel fashion house, and niece of painter Alexandre Jacovleff
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“Letter from Paris to Comrade Kostorov on the Nature of Love”
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1926· 3 entries
Mayakovsky wrote and published "Talking with the Taxman about Poetry", the first in a series of works criticising the new Soviet philistinism, the result of the New Economic Policy
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“A Conversation with the Inspector of Taxes about Poetry”
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Mayakovsky was granted a state-owned flat at the Gendrikov Lane in Moscow, all three of them moved in and lived there until 1930, having turned the place into the LEF headquarters
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1925· 1 entry
“Talking with the Taxman about Poetry”
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1922· 1 entry
Lilya Brik fell in love with Alexander Krasnoshchyokov, the head of the Soviet Prombank
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1921· 1 entry
Mayakovsky's poem 150 000 000 came out, which hailed the Russian people's mission in igniting the world revolution, but it failed to impress Lenin
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1920· 3 entries
Settled in a flat at the Gondrikov Lane, Taganka
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Mayakovsky had a brief romance with Lilya Lavinskaya, an artist who also contributed to ROSTA
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“An Extraordinary Adventure that Happened to Vladimir Mayakovsky One Summer at a Dacha”
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1918· 1 entry
Mayakovsky started the short-lived Futurist Paper
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1916· 1 entry
Parus (The Sail) Publishers (again led by Gorky), published Mayakovsky's poetry compilation called Simple As Mooing
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1914· 1 entry
His first large work, an avant-garde tragedy Vladimir Mayakovsky came out
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1913· 1 entry
Mayakovsky's first poetry collection, I, (Я) came out, its original limited edition 300 copies lithographically printed
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1911· 1 entry
Mayakovsky enrolled in the Moscow Art School
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1909· 1 entry
Got involved in smuggling female political activists out of prison
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1908· 1 entry
The boy was dismissed from the gymnasium because his mother was no longer able to afford the tuition fees
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1907· 1 entry
Mayakovsky became a member of his gymnasium's underground Social Democrats' circle, taking part in numerous activities of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP), which he, given the nickname "Comrade Konstant
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1906· 1 entry
When Mayakovsky was thirteen
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1902· 1 entry
Mayakovsky joined the Kutaisi gymnasium
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1895· 1 entry
By Edmondo De Amicis, and directed by Evgeny Slavinsky
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1893· 2 entries
Born 1893-07-07.
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In Baghdati, Kutais Governorate, Georgia, then part of the Russian Empire, to Alexandra Alexeyevna (née Pavlenko), a housewife, and Vladimir Mayakovsky, a local forester
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