Vladimir Mayakovsky

(1893-1930)

Russian and Soviet poet

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Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (19 July [O.S. 7 July] 1893 – 14 April 1930) 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 produced a large and diverse body of work during the course of his career: he wrote poems, wrote and directed plays, appeared in films, edited the art journal LEF, and produced agitprop posters in support of the Communist Party during the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922.

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Born	Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky 19 July 1893 Baghdati, Kutaisi Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	14 April 1930 (aged 36) Moscow, Soviet Union
Zodiac	Cancer
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