1893 - 1930 

Famous Soviet poet, prominent member of Russian avant-garde (belonged to the Russian Futurists). Provided propaganda for the Soviet government in a variety of forms such as poems, posters, plays, and screenplays. Author of passionate and lyrical love poems. Employed techniques geared to mass appeal, including the use of vernacular language and new poetic forms.

Most known works include poems "Oblako v shtanah" ("Cloud in Trousers"), "Horosho!" ("Good!"), "Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", "Oda revolutsii" ("Ode to Revolution"), "Lyublyu" ("I Love"), play "Klop" ("Bedbug").

Disappointed in love and disillusioned with life in the Soviet Union, Mayakovsky took his own life in 1930.

Lived in Moscow, often visited Odessa.

Vladimir Mayakovsky Page
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Mayakovsky and His Circle
Selected poems in English
Portraits of Mayakovsky
Books by Mayakovsky

Selected poems in Russian
Selected poems in Russian