Mayakovsky, the great poet of the Revolution, was born in a small Georgian town, where his father worked as a forest ranger. 

He arrived in Moscow at the age of thirteen and was jailed as a revolutionary two years later. 

After meeting Burliuk at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, he joined Burliuk's Hylaea group and began writing poetry. 

In 1913, he played the autobiographical role of poet, prophet, and martyr in his play Vladimir Mayakovksy: 

A Tragedy, and dressed in outlandish costumes with the Burliuks and Kamensky during their Futurist Tour of Russia. Mayakovsky met his muse, Lily Brik, in 1915 and began a love affair that lasted until 1928. 

With Lily’s husband, the literary critic Osip Brik, he founded LEF. Mayakovsky committed suicide in his apartment in February 1930. 

More than one hundred and fifty thousand people thronged the Moscow streets to attend his funeral.