Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russian actor, playwright, and poet (died 1930)

Vladimir Mayakovsky

Russian poet (1893–1930)

Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky 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…