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VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH MAYAKOVSKY

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CHILDHOOD
• Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was born in
Baghdati, Georgia in 1893. His father was
forester from a noble family and mother was
housewife. Vladimir had two sisters and brother,
who died at the age of 3. When Mayakovsky
was 14 he took part in socialist demonstrations
in Kataisi. Mayakovsky liked reading Marxist
literature such as Hegel and Marx.

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LIFE
• Vladimir was a Bolshevik activist an
distributed propaganda leaflets and got into
a prison, where he wrote “I, Myself”, at the
age of 16. When he released from prison
he left his party activity and began to study
hard.

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LITERATURE STYLE
• Mayakovsky was futurist. He had his own
style of writing poems called “stairs”. He
would like to “
throw Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, etc,
etc, off the steamboat of the modernity.”

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LOVE
• Vladimir fell in love with married woman Lilya
Brik, who became his muse. Her husband
became close friend to Mayakovsky

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DEATH
• Vladimir Mayakovsky committed suicide by shot
in heart at the age of 36

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TEXT OF NOTE
• To all of you. I die, but don't blame anyone for it, and
please do not gossip. The deceased dislike that sort of
thing terribly. Mother, sisters, comrades, forgive me —
this is not a good method (I do not recommend it to
others), but there is no other way out for me. Lily – love
me. Comrade Government, my family consists of Lily
Brik, mama, my sisters, and Veronika Vitoldovna
Polonskaya. If you can provide a decent life for them,
thank you. Give the poem I started to the Briks. They'll
sort them out.