This Is How Mayakovsky Began

1959 0.0 (0 votes) 1h 35m

Genres

Drama Family History

Production Companies

Georgia-Film

This Is How Mayakovsky Began (მაიაკოვსკი იწყებოდა ასე)

Overview

Based on the autobiographical book "Ya -sam" (I-myself) by Vladimir Mayakovsky the leading Russian Futurist poet of the beginning of the 20th century. He was born in 1893, into a Russian Cossack family in the Transcaucasian kingdom of Georgia, then part of Russian Empire. There he spent his childhood and boyhood attending a grammar school in Kutaisi. Mayakovsky moved to Moscow at the age of 14, after his father's death. He became a poet, an artist, an actor, a writer/director and public speaker.