Tribute paid to Russia’s revolutionary poet
Published 15 April, 2008, 11:52
Every year on April 14, admirers of one of Russia's greatest poets gather at his museum in Lubyansky Lane in Moscow. Vladimir Mayakovsky was not only a talented innovator and a Futurist, but also a committed revolutionary. But his personal life was full of dramatic contradictions, which led him to commit suicide at the age of 36 in 1930.
“If stars are lit, there is someone who needs it”, Mayakovsky had once written. His verses are penetrating and powerful, and they are at their best when read aloud.
The poet's personal belongings and documents from his era are displayed at an exhibition full of symbols and allegories.
