LiubliuReader ´ Russkii Parnas Î Vladimir mayakovsky

LiubliuReader ´ Russkii Parnas Î Vladimir mayakovsky Владимир Владимирович Маяковский was born the last of three children in Baghdati Russian Empire now in Georgia where his father worked as a forest ranger His father was of Ukrainian Cossack descent and his mother was of Ukrainian descent Although Mayakovsky spoke Georgian at school and with friends his family spoke primarily Russian at home At the age of Mayakovsky took part in socialist demonstrations at the town of Kutaisi where he attended the local grammar school After the sudden and premature death of his father in the family — Mayakovsky his mother and his two sisters — moved to Moscow where he attended School No In Moscow Mayakovsky developed a passion for Marxist literature and took part in numerous activities of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party; he was to later become an RSDLP Bolshevik member In he was dismissed from the grammar school because his mother was no longer able to afford the tuition feesAround this time Mayakovsky was imprisoned on three occasions for subversive political activities but being underage he avoided transportation During a period of solitary confinement in Butyrka prison in he began to write poetry but his poems were confiscated On his release from prison he continued working within the socialist movement and in he joined the Moscow Art School where he became acuainted with members of the Russian Futurist movement He became a leading spokesman for the group Gileas Гилея and a close friend of David Burlyuk whom he saw as his mentorThe Futurist publication A Slap in the Face of Public Taste Пощёчина общественному вкусу contained Mayakovsky's first published poems Night Ночь and Morning Утро Because of their political activities Burlyuk and Mayakovsky were expelled from the Moscow Art School in His work continued in the Futurist vein until His artistic development then shifted increasingly in the direction of narrative and it was this work published during the period immediately preceding the Russian Revolution which was to establish his reputation as a poet in Russia and abroadMayakovsky was rejected as a volunteer at the beginning of WWI and during worked at the Petrograd Military Automobile School as a draftsman At the onset of the Russian Revolution Mayakovsky was in Smolny Petrograd There he witnessed the October Revolution After moving back to Moscow Mayakovsky worked for the Russian State Telegraph Agency ROSTA creating — both graphic and text — satirical Agitprop posters In he published his first collection of poems Collected Works Все сочиненное Владимиром Маяковским In the cultural climate of the early Soviet Union his popularity grew rapidly As one of the few Soviet writers who were allowed to travel freely his voyages to Latvia Britain Germany the United States Mexico and Cuba influenced works like My Discovery of America Мое открытие Америки He also travelled extensively throughout the Soviet UnionThe relevance of Mayakovsky's influence cannot be limited to Soviet poetry While for years he was considered the Soviet poet par excellence he also changed the perceptions of poetry in wider th century culture His political activism as a propagandistic agitator was rarely understood and often looked upon unfavourably by contemporaries even close friends like Boris Pasternak Near the end of the s Mayakovsky became increasingly disillusioned with the course the Soviet Union was taking under Joseph Stalin his satirical plays The Bedbug Клоп and The Bathhouse Баня which deal with the Soviet philistinism and bureaucracy illustrate this developmentOn the evening of April Mayakovsky shot himself.