This Is How Mayakovsky Began

This Is How Mayakovsky Began — Plot

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.

• Release date
• August 24, 1959
• Runtime
• 95 min
• Genres
• Drama, Family, History
• Director
• Konstantine Pipinashvili

This Is How Mayakovsky Began — Cast

R

Rodam Chelidze Volodia Mayakovsky Akaki Khorava Mayakovsky's father Nina Shaternikova Mother Antonina Maksimova Lyudmila Emiliya Sudakova Olya

G

Guram Tsereteli Arsena Edisher Magalashvili David Igor Vladimirov Vasiliev