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  Moscow museums
The State Museum of Vladimir Mayakovsky was opened in 1974 in the building where the poet lived and worked from 1919 to 1930.
Lenin's Mausoleum, the monument and the burial-vault, is the compositional center of the Red Square in Moscow.
In the Funeral Hall of the Mausoleum there is the crystal sarcophagus, which contains the embalmed body of Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the Bolsheviks party and the initiator of the Russian October revolution in 1917.
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 Learn more about Vladimir Mayakovsky in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Vladimir Vladimirovitch Mayakovsky (July 7 (O.S.) = July 19 (N.S.), 1893 - April 14, 1930) was one of the foremost Russian poets of the early 20th century.
In the summer of 1915, Mayakovsky fell in love with a married woman, Lilya Brik (whose husband, Ossip apparently did not object to the affair, becoming Mayakovsky's publisher), and it is to her that the poem The Backbone Flute (Fleita pozvonochnik, 1916) is dedicated.
At the onset of the Russian Revolution, Mayakovsky was in Smolny in Petrograd, and a witness to the coup.
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 Encyclopedia: Vladimir Mayakovsky   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky...by his behavior incites other prisoners to disobedience toward prison officers, persistently demands free access to all cells, purporting to be the prisoners' "spokesman"; whenever let out of his cell to go to the toilet or washroom, he stays out of his cell for half an hour, parading up and down the corridor.
Mayakovsky was the star of these shows, not only because of his booming bass voice and exciting style of reading, but also because of his natural talent as a debater and ability to engage in witty repartee.
Mayakovsky rushed around visiting building sites and new factories and producing poems addressing specific issues of current public interest: the joy of a new apartment with hot and cold running water; the purchase of industrialization bonds; and the promise of automobile factories to produce affordable automobiles which will be available on the installment plan.
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 Vladimir Mayakovsky
Mayakovsky was deeply concerned with the problem of death throughout his life, and in 1930, troubled by critics and disappointment in love, he shot himself with a revolver.
Vladimir Mayakovsky was born in Bagdadi, Kutais region (subsequently Mayakovski), Georgia.
Mayakovsky attended the gymnasium at Kutais (1902-06) and a school in Moscow (1906-08), where the family had moved after selling all their movable property.
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 Mayakovsky, V.V. - SovLit.com - Encyclopedia of Soviet Authors
Mayakovsky was released on probation, and on 30 August 1908 he was admitted to the Stroganov School of Industrial Arts.
Mayakovsky had never been a big fan of Esenin and his more conventional style, but he did recognize Esenin as "a journeyman of the Russian word." Esenin had concluded his suicide poem with the lines: "In this life, dying is nothing new.
Mayakovsky had abandoned Novy Lef in 1928, and in 1929 he tried to establish a new organization, Ref ("Revolutionary Front"), intended as a workshop, a school for the study of the technology of writing, that would cooperate with RAPP.
www.sovlit.com /bios/mayakovsky.html   (3490 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (Russian And Eastern European Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky[vludyE´mir vludyE´miruvich mI´´ukOf´skE] Pronunciation Key, 1893–1930, Russian poet and dramatist.
Mayakovsky was a leader of the futurist school in 1912, and he was chief poet of the revolution.
Mayakovsky grew increasingly disillusioned with Soviet life and committed suicide in 1930.
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 MUSEOS DE MOSCÚ
La idea de establecer el museo conmemorativo de Vladimir Vysotsky surgió en 1980, un poco después de su muerte.
El Teatro Taganka, donde interpretaba este ilustre bardo y actor, fue llenado con miles de cartas de sus sencillos amantes, que insistiían en establecimiento del museo conmemorativo, dedicado a la vida y obra del poeta.
El Museo Estatal de Vladimir Mayakovsky fue abierto en 1974 en el mismo edificio, donde vivía y trabajaba el poeta de 1919 a 1930.
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Born in 1893 in the Georgian village of Bagdadi (which was renamed Mayakovsky after his death), Vladimir Mayakovsky was the son of a forestry officer.
By the time of the 1905 revolution Mayakovsky was already working with the local Social Democrats, and when his family moved to Moscow a couple of years later he joined the Bolsheviks.
From this time until the revolutions of 1917 Mayakovsky was one of the most visible members of the Russian artistic scene.
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