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1893
Born in Bagdadi, Georgia
1906
Moves to Moscow
1908
Joins Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic
Party
1909
His third arrest leads to imprisonment at the Butyrki Prison
for six months
1910
Enters Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture
1911
Meets David Burliuk, organizer
of the budetlanye and whom Mayakovsky calls, in his autobiography,
"my real teacher."
1912
Futurist manifesto Slap
in the Face of Public Taste is published, containing
Mayakovsky's first two published poems: "Night" and "Morning."
1913
Mayakovsky and Futurists
in their modish costumes travel through the provinces
spreading the good word about the avant-garde.
Mayakovsky's first collection appears
Vladimir Mayakovsky: A Tragedy staged in Moscow
Mayakovsky writes "And Could You"
1915
Meets Lily and Osip
Brik, begins affair with Lily which lasts until 1928
Writes and publishes Cloud in Trousers and Backbone Flute,
in which Lily Brik plays the femme fatale
Writes
and publishes War and Peace
1916
Writes "To His
Beloved Self "
1918
Founds Left Front of Art with Osip Brik
Stages Mystery Bouffe, directed by
Meyerhold
(see right)
Writes
and publishes lyric "Being Good to Horses"
Begins
work on newspaper Art of the Commune
1919
Writes narrative of revolution 150,000,000
Begins
creating propaganda posters for Rosta, the Russian State
Telegraph Agency (see left)
1920
Publishes 150,000,000
1923
Writes and publishes "About That," a love
poem dedicated to Lily Brik (see right)
Begins
journal Lef with Brik, Aseev, Arvatov, Tretyakov,
and Rodchenko
1924
Writes and publishes Vladimir Ilych Lenin
1925
Lef goes under
Travels
to the United States, visiting New York, Chicago, and Detroit,
writes and publishes Verses about America including
the epic "Brooklyn Bridge." Also travels to Mexico
1926
Writes and publishes Talking with the Taxman about Poetry,
a critique of Soviet philistinism, the result of the New
Economic Policy
1927
Lef is reborn as Novyi lef with a new concentration
on documentary art and the "literature of the fact"
1928
Stages The
Bedbug
First
published collected works appear in Moscow
1930
Joins RAPP, the association of proletarian writers that
came to dominate art in the 1930s.
Writes
"At the Top of my Voice"
Stages
The Bathhouse
Has
reading interrupted by students, he is shouted off the stage
Commits
suicide April 14. Funeral Procession and ceremony draw 30,000
people, Tatlin designs the catafalque to bear Mayakovsky
through Moscow streets.
1934
Stalin sanctifies Mayakovsky as poet of revolution, Triumphal
Square renamed Mayakovsky Square (see left)
1958
Published volume of Lily Brik's and Mayakovsky's correspondence
appears
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Mayakovsky's propaganda poster for ROSTA (the Russian
State Telegraph Authority)
