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Vladimir Mayakovsky

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Vladimir Mayakovsky

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Also known as Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky, Vladimir Maiakovsky, Vladimir Mayakov, Vladimir Vladimirovich Majakovski, Wladimir Wladimirowitsch Majakovskij, Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovski, Vladimir Vladimirovic Mayakovskij, Vladimir Vladimirovič Majakovskij

Russian and Soviet poet (1893–1930)

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Vladimir Mayakovsky was a poet associated with the Russian avant-garde and futurism movements. His creative career spanned from 1912 to 1930. He is the author of notable works including *Mystery-Bouffe*, *Tuda i obratno*, and *Shkol’nyĭ Mai︠a︡kovskiĭ*. His literary output has been documented in various collections, such as *Izbrannye proizvedenii︠a︡* and *מבחר שירים*.

Mayakovsky was born on July 19, 1893, and died on April 14, 1930. His poetry often featured themes of spoken word and explored personal sorrow, as seen in lines describing the "trampled soul" and the "ships of love" that have foundered. His work continues to be referenced by over one thousand other encyclopedia articles.

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Person · Open Library

Born
19 July 1893
Died
14 April 1930
Works
417

Top works

  • Mystery-Bouffe
  • Tuda i obratno
  • מבחר שירים
  • [Dli︠a︡ golosa ; Khorosho!
  • Izbrannye proizvedenii︠a︡

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Total plays
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (Влади́мир Влади́мирович Маяко́вский) (July 19 [O.S. July 7] 1893 – April 14, 1930) was a Russian poet and playwright, among the foremost representatives of early-20th century Russian Futurism. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Vladimir+Mayakovsky">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Support-vector networks

    · 1995 · cited 30,636x

  2. The Nature of Statistical Learning Theory

    · 1995 · cited 17,994x

  3. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,790x

  4. The MIQE Guidelines: Minimum Information for Publication of Quantitative Real-Time PCR Experiments

    · 2009 · cited 14,228x

  5. Support-Vector Networks

    · 1995 · cited 12,239x

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Quotes

  • “On the pavementof my trampled soulthe steps of madmenweave the prints of rude crude words.”
  • “Tramp squares with rebellious treading!Up heads! As proud peaks be seen!In the second flood we are spreadingEvery city on earth will be clean.”
  • “Art must not be concentrated in dead shrines called museums. lt must be spread everywhere – on the streets, in the trams, factories, workshops, and in the workers' homes.”
  • “I want to be understood by my country,but if I fail to be understood –what then?,I shall pass through my native landto one side,like a showerof slanting rain.”
  • “Love's ship has foundered on the rocks of life.We're quits: stupid to draw up a listof mutual sorrows, hurts and pains.”
  • “I understand the power and the alarm of words –Not those that they applaud from theatre-boxes,but those which make coffins break from bearersand on their four oak legs walk right away.”

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Encyclopedic overview

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.

Though Mayakovsky's work regularly demonstrated ideological and patriotic support for the ideology of the Bolsheviks and a strong admiration of Vladimir Lenin, his relationship with the Soviet state was always complex and often tumultuous. Mayakovsky often found himself engaged in confrontation with the increasing involvement of the Soviet state in cultural censorship and the development of the State doctrine of Socialist realism. Works that criticized or satirized aspects of the Soviet system, such as the poem "Talking With the Taxman About Poetry" (1926), and the plays The Bedbug (1929) and The Bathhouse (1929), met with scorn from the Soviet state and literary establishment.

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