The last years of Mayakovsky's life briefly. Mayakovsky V.V.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky began his autobiographical narrative in this way: I myself': 'I'm a poet. This is what is interesting. This is what I am writing about." His poetic word has always been focused on creative experiment, innovation, striving for the future world and future art. He always wanted to be heard, so he had to force his voice strongly, as if shouting at the top of his lungs; in this sense the title of the unfinished poem " In a loud voice"can characterize all of Mayakovsky's work.

The aspiration for the future was expressed at the very beginning of the journey: in 1912, together with the poets D. Burliuk, V. Khlebnikov and A. Kruchenykh, he signed the manifesto “Slapping Public Opinion”. The futuristic attitude remained with him for the rest of his life: this is the deification of the future, its boundless idealization and the idea that it is much more valuable than the present and the past; this is also “a striving for the extreme, the ultimate”, as N. Berdyaev characterized such a worldview; this is a radical denial of modern life principles, which are thought of as bourgeois, shocking as the most important goal of the poetic word. The programmatic works of this period of Mayakovsky's work are the tragedy of the twenty-year-old poet " Vladimir Mayakovsky", staged in St. Petersburg and failed, the poem" Could you?"and a poem" A cloud in pants"(1915). Its leitmotif is the word “down”, which expresses an organic trait for the poet’s personality: extreme revolutionaryism and the need for a radical reorganization of the world order as a whole – a trait that led Mayakovsky to futurism in poetry and to the Bolsheviks in politics. In the same year, the poem " flute spine". Her plot was the beginning of a dramatic and even tragic relationship with a woman who went through Mayakovsky's entire life and played a very ambiguous role in it - Lilia Brik.

After the revolution, Mayakovsky feels like its poet, accepts it completely and uncompromisingly. The task of art is to serve it, to bring practical benefits. The practicality and even utilitarianism of the poetic word is one of the fundamental axioms of futurism, and then of the LEF, a literary group that adopted all the fundamental futuristic ideas for practical development. It was with a utilitarian attitude to poetry that Mayakovsky's propaganda work in ROSTA, which produced "Windows of Satire" - topical leaflets-posters with rhymed lines to them, is connected. The basic principles of futuristic aesthetics were reflected in the poet's post-revolutionary program poems: Our march"(1917)," Left march" and " Art Army Order» (1918). The theme of love, the poem " I love"(1922); " About it(1923), although here too gigantism and excessive hyperbolization, characteristic of the worldview of the lyrical hero, are manifested, the desire to present exceptional and impossible demands to himself and the object of his love.

In the second half of the 1920s, Mayakovsky increasingly felt like an official poet, the plenipotentiary not only of Russian poetry, but also of the Soviet state, both at home and abroad. A peculiar lyrical plot of his poetry is the situation of going abroad and a collision with representatives of an alien, bourgeois world (“ Poems about the Soviet passport", 1929; cycle " Poems about America", 1925). A kind of motto of the "plenipotentiary of the verse" can be considered his lines: "The Soviet / have their own pride: / we look down on the bourgeoisie."

At the same time, in the second half of the 1920s, a note of disappointment in revolutionary ideals, or rather, in what real embodiment they found in Soviet reality, began to sound in Mayakovsky's work. This somewhat changes the problematic of his lyrics. The volume of satire is increasing, its object is changing: this is no longer a counter-revolution, but its own, home-grown, party bureaucracy, the “muzzle of a petty bourgeois”, crawling out from behind the back of the RSFSR. The ranks of this bureaucracy are replenished by people who went through the civil war, experienced in battles, reliable party members who did not find the strength to resist the temptations of nomenklatura life, the delights of the NEP, who survived the so-called rebirth. Similar motifs are heard not only in lyrics, but also in dramaturgy (comedy " Bug", 1928, and" Bath", 1929). It is no longer a beautiful socialist future that is put forward as an ideal, but a revolutionary past, the goals and meaning of which are distorted by the present. It is this understanding of the past that characterizes the poem " Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" (1924) and the October poem " Good”(1927), written for the tenth anniversary of the revolution and addressed to the ideals of October.

So, we examined the work of Mayakovsky briefly. The poet died on April 14, 1930. The reason for his tragic death, suicide, was probably a whole complex of insoluble contradictions, both creative and deeply personal.

In Vladimir Mayakovsky, he did not immediately begin to write poetry - at first he was going to become an artist and even studied painting. The fame of the poet came to him after meeting the avant-garde artists, when the first works of the young author were enthusiastically greeted by David Burliuk. Futuristic group, "Today's Lubok", "Left Front of Arts", advertising "ROSTA Windows" - Vladimir Mayakovsky worked in many creative associations. He also wrote for newspapers, published a magazine, made films, created plays and staged performances based on them.

Vladimir Mayakovsky with his sister Lyudmila. Photo: vladimir-mayakovsky.ru

Vladimir Mayakovsky with his family. Photo: vladimir-mayakovsky.ru

Vladimir Mayakovsky in childhood. Photo: rewizor.ru

Vladimir Mayakovsky was born in Georgia in 1893. His father served as a forester in the village of Baghdadi, later the family moved to Kutaisi. Here, the future poet studied at the gymnasium and took drawing lessons: the only Kutaisi artist Sergei Krasnukha worked with him for free. When the wave of the first Russian revolution reached Georgia, Mayakovsky - as a child - participated in rallies for the first time. His sister Lyudmila Mayakovskaya recalled: “The revolutionary struggle of the masses also influenced Volodya and Olya. The Caucasus experienced the revolution especially acutely. There, everyone was involved in the struggle, and everyone was divided into those who participated in the revolution, who definitely sympathized with it and who were hostile..

In 1906, when Vladimir Mayakovsky was 13 years old, his father died from blood poisoning: he injured his finger with a needle while stitching papers. Until the end of his life, the poet was afraid of bacteria: he always carried soap with him, took a folding basin on his travels, carried cologne for rubbing with him, and carefully monitored hygiene.

After the death of his father, the family was in a difficult situation. Mayakovsky recalled: “After the funeral of my father, we have 3 rubles. Instinctively, feverishly, we sold out tables and chairs. Moved to Moscow. What for? Didn't even have friends.". In a Moscow gymnasium, the young poet wrote his first "incredibly revolutionary and equally ugly" poem and published it in an illegal school magazine. In 1909-1910, Mayakovsky was arrested several times: he joined the Bolshevik Party, worked in an underground printing house. At first, the young revolutionary was given "on bail" to his mother, and for the third time he was sent to prison. Mayakovsky later called the conclusion in solitary confinement "11 Butyr months." He wrote poetry, but the notebook with lyrical experiments - "stilted and tearful", as their author assessed - was taken away by the guards.

In conclusion, Mayakovsky read many books. He dreamed of a new art, a new aesthetic that would be fundamentally different from the classical one. Mayakovsky decided to study painting - he changed several teachers and a year later entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Here the young artist met David Burliuk, and later - with Velimir Khlebnikov and Alexei Kruchenykh. Mayakovsky again wrote poetry, from which his new comrades were delighted. Avant-garde authors decided to unite against the "aesthetics of junk", and soon a manifesto of a new creative group appeared - "A slap in the face of public taste."

David has the wrath of a master who has overtaken his contemporaries, while I have the pathos of a socialist who knows the inevitability of the collapse of junk. Russian futurism was born.

Vladimir Mayakovsky, excerpt from the autobiography "I myself"

Futurists spoke at meetings - read poems and lectures on new poetry. For public speaking, Vladimir Mayakovsky was expelled from the school. In 1913–1914, the well-known tour of the Futurists took place: a creative group with performances toured Russian cities.

Burliuk rode and promoted futurism. But he loved Mayakovsky, stood at the cradle of his verse, knew his biography to the smallest detail, knew how to read his things - and therefore, through the butads of David Davidovich, the appearance of Mayakovsky arose so material that he wanted to be touched with his hands.
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Upon arrival in the city, Burliuk first of all organized an exhibition of futuristic paintings and manuscripts, and in the evening he made a report.

Futurist poet Pyotr Neznamov

Vladimir Mayakovsky, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Alexander Rodchenko and Dmitri Shostakovich at the rehearsal of the play "The Bedbug". 1929. Photo: subscribe.ru

Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lilya Brik in the film Chained by Film. 1918. Photo: geometria.by

Vladimir Mayakovsky (third from left) and Vsevolod Meyerhold (second from left) at the rehearsal of the performance "Banya". 1930. Photo: bse.sci-lib.com

Vladimir Mayakovsky was interested not only in poetry and painting. In 1913, he made his debut in the theater: he himself wrote the tragedy "Vladimir Mayakovsky", he himself staged it on stage and played the main role. In the same year, the poet became interested in cinema - he began to write scripts, and a year later he starred in the film “Drama in the Futurist Cabaret No. 13” for the first time (the picture has not been preserved). During the First World War, Vladimir Mayakovsky was a member of the avant-garde association "Today's Lubok". Its participants - Kazimir Malevich, David Burliuk, Ilya Mashkov and others - drew patriotic postcards for the front, inspired by the traditional popular popular print. They created simple colorful pictures for them and wrote short poems in which they ridiculed the enemy.

In 1915, Mayakovsky met Osip and Lilya Brik. This event in his autobiography, the poet later noted the subtitle "the most joyful date." Lilya Brik became Mayakovsky's lover and muse for many years, he dedicated poems and poems to her, and even after parting continued to declare his love. In 1918, they starred together for the film Chained by Film - both in the lead roles.

In November of the same year, the premiere of Mayakovsky's play Mystery Buff took place. It was staged at the Musical Drama Theater by Vsevolod Meyerhold, and designed in the best traditions of the avant-garde by Kazimir Malevich. Meyerhold recalled working with the poet: “Mayakovsky was well versed in very subtle theatrical, technological things that we, directors, usually learn for a very long time in different schools, practically at the theater, etc. Mayakovsky always guessed every right and wrong stage decision, precisely as a director”. The “revolutionary folk spectacle,” as the translator Rita Wright called it, was staged several more times.

A year later, the tense era of "Windows of GROWTH" began: artists and poets collected hot topics and produced propaganda posters - they are often called the first Soviet social advertising. The work was intense: both Mayakovsky and his colleagues more than once had to stay late or work at night in order to release the batch on time.

In 1922, Vladimir Mayakovsky headed the literary group "Left Front of the Arts" (later "left" in the title changed to "revolutionary"), and soon the eponymous magazine of the creative association. On its pages published prose and poetry, pictures of avant-garde photographers, bold architectural projects and news of the "left" art.

In 1925, the poet finally broke up with Lilya Brik. He went on tour to France, then went to Spain, Cuba and the USA. There, Mayakovsky met the translator Ellie Jones, a short but stormy romance broke out between them. In autumn, the poet returned to the USSR, and in America his daughter, Helen-Patricia, was soon born. After returning from the United States, Vladimir Mayakovsky wrote the cycle "Poems about America", worked on scripts for Soviet films.

Vladimir Mayakovsky. Photo: goteatr.com

Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lilya Brik. Photo: mayakovskij.ru

Vladimir Mayakovsky. Photo: peter.my

In 1928–1929, Mayakovsky wrote the satirical plays Bedbug and Bathhouse. Both premieres were held at the Meyerhold Theatre. The poet was the second director, he followed the design of the performance and worked with the actors: he recited fragments of the play, creating the necessary intonations and placing semantic accents.

Vladimir Vladimirovich was very fond of any kind of work. He went to work with his head. Before the premiere of "The Bath" he was completely exhausted. He spent all his time in the theatre. He wrote poems, inscriptions for the auditorium for the production of "Baths". He himself supervised their hanging. Then he joked that he was hired at the Meyerhold Theater not only as an author and director (he worked a lot with actors on the text), but also as a painter and carpenter, since he himself painted and nailed something. As a very rare author, he was so burned and sick of the performance that he participated in the smallest details of the production, which, of course, was not at all part of his authorial functions.

Actress Veronika Polonskaya

Both plays caused a stir. Some viewers and critics saw in the works a satire on the bureaucracy, while others - criticism of the Soviet system. "Banya" was staged only a few times, and then banned - until 1953.

The loyal attitude of the authorities to the "main Soviet poet" was replaced by coolness. In 1930, for the first time, he was not approved to travel abroad. Official criticism began to fiercely attack the poet. He was reproached for satire in relation to phenomena allegedly defeated, for example, the same bureaucracy, and bureaucratic delays. Mayakovsky decided to hold the exhibition "20 Years of Work" and present the results of his many years of work. He himself selected newspaper articles and drawings, arranged books, hung posters on the walls. The poet was assisted by Lilya Brik, his new beloved actress Veronika Polonskaya and an employee of the State Literary Museum Artemy Bromberg.

On the day of the opening, the hall for guests was packed. However, as Bromberg recalled, none of the representatives of literary organizations came to the opening. And there were no official congratulations of the poet on the twentieth anniversary of his work either.

I will never forget how in the House of Press at the exhibition of Vladimir Vladimirovich "Twenty Years of Work", which for some reason was almost boycotted by "great" writers, we, several Smenovites, were literally on duty for days near the stands, physically suffering from how sad and strict A large, tall man, with his hands behind his back, walked up and down the empty halls, walking back and forth, as if waiting for someone very dear and becoming more and more convinced that this dear person would not come.

Poet Olga Bergholz

Non-recognition was exacerbated by personal drama. Vladimir Mayakovsky, in love with Polonskaya, demanded that she leave her husband, leave the theater and live with him in a new apartment. As the actress recalled, the poet either made scenes, then calmed down, then again began to be jealous and demand an immediate solution. One of these explanations became fatal. After Polonskaya left, Mayakovsky committed suicide. In his suicide letter, he asked the "comrade government" not to leave his family: “My family is Lilya Brik, mother, sisters and Veronika Vitoldovna Polonskaya. If you give them a decent life, thank you.”.

After the death of Mayakovsky, the entire archive of the poet went to the Briks. Lilya Brik tried to preserve the memory of his work, wanted to create a memorial room, but constantly ran into bureaucratic obstacles. The poet was almost never published. Then Brik wrote a letter to Joseph Stalin. In his resolution, Stalin called Mayakovsky "the best and most talented poet of the Soviet era." The resolution was published in Pravda, Mayakovsky's works began to be published in huge editions, and the streets and squares of the Soviet Union were named after him.

Vulgarity, not contesting it in life, challenged it in death. But lively, agitated Moscow, alien to petty literary disputes, stood in line at his coffin, not organized by anyone in this line, spontaneously, by itself recognizing the unusualness of this life and this death. And lively, excited Moscow filled the streets on the way to the crematorium. And lively, agitated Moscow did not believe his death. Still does not believe.

Mayakovsky's biography contains many dubious moments that make us wonder who the poet really was - a servant of communism or a romantic? A brief biography of Vladimir Mayakovsky will allow you to get a general idea of ​​​​the life of the poet.

The writer was born in Georgia, in the village. Baghdadi, Kutaisi province, July 7, 1893. Little Vova studied well and diligently, showed interest in painting. Soon the Mayakovsky family is experiencing a tragedy - the father dies. Working as a forester, the father of the future poet was the only earner. Therefore, a family that has experienced the loss of a loved one finds itself in a difficult financial situation. Further, the biography of Mayakovsky leads us to Moscow. Vladimir is forced to help his mother earn money. He does not have time for classes, so he cannot boast of academic success. During this period, Mayakovsky disagrees with the teacher. As a result of the conflict, the rebellious nature of the poet first manifests itself, and he loses interest in his studies. The school decides to expel the future genius from school due to poor academic performance.

Biography of Mayakovsky: youthful years

After school, Vladimir joins the Social Democratic Party. During this period, the poet is subjected to several arrests. Vladimir wrote his first poem at this time. After his release, Mayakovsky continued his literary work. While studying at the gymnasium, the writer meets David Burliuk, who was the founder of a new literary movement - Russian futurism. Soon they become friends, and this leaves an imprint on the theme of Vladimir's work. He supports the futurists, joins their ranks and writes poetry in this genre. The first works of the poet are dated 1912. Soon the well-known tragedy "Vladimir Mayakovsky" will be written. In 1915, work was completed on the most outstanding poem "A Cloud in Trousers".

Biography of Mayakovsky: love experiences

His literary work was not limited to propaganda pamphlets and satirical fables. The theme of love is present in the life and work of the poet. A person lives as long as he experiences a state of love, Mayakovsky believed so. The biography and work of the poet testify to his love experiences. The muse of the writer - Lilya Brik, the closest person to him, was ambiguous in her feelings for the writer. Another great love of Vladimir - Tatyana Yakovleva - never married him.

The tragic death of Mayakovsky

To this day, there are conflicting rumors about the mysterious death of the poet. On April 14, 1930, the writer shot himself in his rented apartment in Moscow under unclear circumstances. Vladimir at that time was 37 years old. Whether it was suicide, or whether Mayakovsky was helped to go to the next world, one can only guess. A brief biography of Mayakovsky contains evidence that confirms any of the versions. One thing is indisputable: the country in one day lost a brilliant poet and a great man.

Russian poet. In pre-revolutionary creativity, the confession of a poet forced to a cry, perceiving reality as an apocalypse (the tragedy "Vladimir Mayakovsky", 1913, the poems "A Cloud in Pants", 1915, "Flute-Spine", 1916, "War and Peace", 1917). After 1917 - the creation of a myth about the socialist world order (the play "Mystery-Buff", 1918, the poems "150,000,000", 1921, "Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", 1924, "Good!", 1927) and the tragically growing sense of its depravity (from verse "Seated", 1922, before the play "Bath", 1929). In the poem "Out loud" (1930) affirmation of the sincerity of one's path and the hope of being understood in the "communist far away". A poetic language reformer, he had a great influence on the poetry of the 20th century. Committed suicide.

Biography

Vladimir Vladimirovich (1893-1930), poet.

Born on July 7 (19 NS) in the village of Baghdadi, near Kutaisi, in the family of a forester, a man of progressive views, humane and generous. He studied at the Kutaisi gymnasium (1902 - 06). Then for the first time I read revolutionary poems and proclamations. “Poems and revolution somehow united in my head,” the poet later wrote.

In the turbulent 1905, a twelve-year-old schoolboy took part in demonstrations and a gymnasium strike.

In 1906, after the sudden death of his father, the family moved to Moscow, where Mayakovsky continued his education. However, he soon took up serious revolutionary work, was arrested three times (in 1909 he was imprisoned in Butyrka prison). Released from prison as a minor in 1910, he decided to devote himself to art, entered the studio of the artist P. Kelin to prepare for exams at the School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where he began to study in 1911. Here he met D. Burdyuk, the organizer of a group of Russians futurists. From 1912 he began to publish his poems, becoming a professional poet. Published in futuristic almanacs. For participating in public speaking, he was expelled from the school in 1914.

In the same year, he traveled with a group of futurists to seventeen cities in RUSSIA, promoting the new art among the masses. However, in his work, Mayakovsky already in these years was independent and original. In 1915 he created his best pre-revolutionary poem "A Cloud in Pants" about the belief in the inevitability of an imminent revolution, which he expected as a solution to the most important problems of the country and the determination of personal destiny. The poet even tries to predict the timing of her arrival (“In the crown of thorns of revolutions // The sixteenth year is coming”).

The poems of 1916 sound gloomy and hopeless, making up a special cycle (“Tired”, “Giveaway”, “Darkness”, “Russia”, etc.).

Gorky invited Mayakovsky to cooperate in the Chronicle magazine and the Novaya Zhizn newspaper, and helped in the publication of the second collection of poems, Simple as Lowing. During these years, Mayakovsky created the poems "War and Peace" and "Man", where, as it were, an anti-war panorama is presented.

He called the October Revolution "My Revolution" and was one of the first cultural and artistic figures who responded to the call of the Soviet government to cooperate with it; participated in the first meetings and gatherings of representatives of culture. At this time, he publishes "Our March", "Ode to the Revolution", "Left March". The play "Mystery-buff" was written and staged. During 1919 he worked on the poem "150,000 LLC".

In October 1919, he produced the first posters in the ROSTA Windows, which marked the beginning of his work as an artist and poet (until 1921).

In 1922 - 1924 he made his first trips abroad (Riga, Berlin, Paris, etc.), the impressions of which he will describe in essays and poems.

In 1925 he went on his longest journey - overseas: he visited Havana, Mexico City and for three months performed in various US cities with reading poetry and reports. Later, poems were written (the collection "Spain. - Ocean. - Havana. - Mexico. - America.") And the essay "My Discovery of America."

Of great importance in the life of the poet were trips around his native country. Only in 1927 he performed in 40 cities in addition to Moscow and Leningrad. In 1927, the poem "Good!" appeared.

Dramaturgy occupies an important place in his work. He created the satirical plays Bedbug (1928), Bathhouse (1929). In February, Mayakovsky joined the RAPP (Russian Association of Proletarian Writers), for which many of his literary associates broke off relations with him. On the same days, the exhibition "20 Years of Mayakovsky's Work" was opened, which was not successful due to the deliberate isolation of the poet. His personal life also remained difficult and unsettled. Mayakovsky's health and mood in the spring of 1930 deteriorated sharply.

Who was Vladimir Mayakovsky? A genius or a simple poet? A lot is known about this great, but at the same time, almost nothing can be said clearly about it. He was and will remain a mystery even to the most sincere admirers of his work. As for his biography, there are practically no empty spaces in it, but the spiritual warehouse, the personality of the poet are shrouded in mystery. In order to at least a little understand the views and feelings of this great artist of the word, it is necessary to learn some interesting facts from the life of Mayakovsky.

short biography

Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was born on July 7, 1893 in the Kutaisi province, the village of Baghdadi. Both parents were direct descendants of the Zaporozhye Cossacks. The father of the great poet - Vladimir Konstantinovich - was a hereditary nobleman, and worked as a forester. Mother, Pavlenko A.A., was engaged in raising children, in addition to Vladimir, there were two more children in the family.

Studies

In the period from 1902 to 1906, the future poet studied at the Kutaisi gymnasium, where he probably managed to get acquainted with the liberal democratic intelligentsia. In 1905, he even took part in a major demonstration of Russian and Georgian youth.

Interesting facts from the life of Mayakovsky confirm that his father actually died from a needle prick, which as a result led to blood poisoning. After the death of the head of the family, the Mayakovsky family moved to Moscow in 1906.

The financial condition was rather difficult, so in 1908 Vladimir Mayakovsky was expelled from the Moscow gymnasium, because his mother did not have the means to pay for further education. However, thanks to his talent for fine arts, he was accepted to study in No, and here the future poet's studies did not go smoothly because of his political views.

prison sentences

In 1908, many facts from the life of Mayakovsky concerning his political convictions led to the fact that he was imprisoned. The arrest of the poet was caused by revolutionary agitation, which he carried out among the representatives of the working class. But this was not the last time, later Mayakovsky was imprisoned twice more. After the next conclusion, which took place at the end, Mayakovsky ceased to take an active part in the work of the party.

Despite the complexity of the then position of Mayakovsky, it was during this period that he finally took shape and he learned the provisions of Marxism and the Bolsheviks on the class struggle. Most likely, the views of the young poet were partly romantic, and he was not fully aware of everything that was happening in the political arena at that time, but at that time he decided to try on the mask of the “leader”. It was then that some interesting facts from the life of Mayakovsky took place, because it was here that he began to write his first poems, which were later selected by prison officers.

Lilya Brik in the life of a poet

Lilya Brik occupied a special place in the life of Mayakovsky. She was his muse, his lover, his icon. Like any creator, the poet and his inspirer had a very complicated relationship.

The love triangle between Mayakovsky and Brikov was nonsense even in Moscow in the 1920s, which at that time could hardly boast of the purity of personal relationships. Mayakovsky and Lilya Brik did not hide their feelings at all, and most surprisingly, Osip Brik, Lily's legal husband, was also not against this state of affairs.

The muse helped Mayakovsky in creating new works, because it was she who managed to understand what the poet needs in order to create, and he needed suffering and sadness. It cannot be said that Brik was absolutely sincere in her feelings for the poet, but the fact that she influenced his work cannot be ignored.

Tatyana Yakovleva

An important role in the life of Mayakovsky was played by another woman, she was a Russian emigrant who lived in Paris. Despite the fact that she rejected the great poet, he did an incredibly romantic act. Mayakovsky put an impressive amount on the account of the flower shop with one condition that several times a week Yakovleva was brought flowers "from Mayakovsky."

Even after the death of the poet, his muse continued to receive flowers, which during the war years saved her from starvation. Although the fact that the poet and Yakovlev had a romantic relationship has not been proven, he still dedicated more than one poem to her.

• Few people know, but the great poet was extremely generous and often handed out money to the elderly. He himself found the old people and supported them financially, wishing to remain anonymous.
• Mayakovsky worked diligently to find the most suitable, ideal rhyme that would fit into the poems in all respects. He could walk 15-20 km until he found exactly what he needed.
• The story that connected the poet with the famous artist Repin remains noteworthy. During their first meeting, the painter was very surprised by Mayakovsky's chestnut curls and offered to paint his portrait. When Mayakovsky was again at Repin's, he was insanely surprised, because as soon as the poet took off his headdress, the painter saw that now the chestnut curls were shaved "to zero."

• Mayakovsky and Lilya Brik, whose relationship was complicated to the limit, in fact, were an excellent tandem of the creator and the muse. The Swedish family of Briks with Mayakovsky created favorable conditions not only for communication with Lilya. He took part in the life of the poet personally. He corrected the punctuation and spelling of the poems of the brilliant creator. Such a strange relationship connected these three people.
• It was Mayakovsky who became the creator of the famous "ladder". On the part of the writer, this was a clear trick, since at that time poets were paid for the number of lines in the written poems, and the "ladder" led to the fact that he received 2-3 times more than his colleagues in the shop.

So many years have passed since the death of the great poet, and they still remember him, they still study him in schools, young men in love quote his poems to their ladies, he still remains alive in the souls of his fans. Creativity that calls for vigorous activity, creativity in which one wants to dissolve - this is exactly the kind of poetry created by a brilliant poet who will be remembered for centuries.