“I want to be understood by my country, but if I am not understood, what then? I shall pass through my native land to one side, like a shower of slanting rain.”

About Vladimir Mayakovsky

Poet • Russian

Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was a prominent Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, artist, and actor. He was a leading figure of the Russian Futurist movement, seeking to create a new, revolutionary art for a new...