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Vladimir Mayakovsky

Died in 1930

Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893-1930), born in Baghdati, in Georgia, settled in Moscow and as a teenager joined the clandestine revolutionaries. Arrested several times, he was imprisoned in 1909 in the Butyrka, where he began to write verse. Admitted in 1911 to the Moscow school of painting, he met David Burliuk there and became one of the figures of Russian futurism. After 1917 he put his art at the service of the revolution, drew posters for the Russian telegraph agency and founded the journal Lef. He died in Moscow in 1930.

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