This Is How Mayakovsky Began (1959)

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• 1959
• Drama
• Family
• History
• Konstantine Pipinashvili
• Rodam Chelidze
• Akaki Khorava
• Nina Shaternikova

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.