RCC marks 120th birth anniversary of Vladimir Mayakovsky

Russian Culture Centre, Dhaka, pays tribute to celebrated poet Vladimir Mayakovsky through a festival and display of materials and photos on the occasion of his 120th birth anniversary. The event and exhibition will take place in the library and it is an open for all occasion.    Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was a Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, artist and stage and film actor. He is among the foremost representatives of early-20th century Russian Futurism.    The 1912 Futurist publication A Slap in the Face of Public Taste contained Mayakovsky’s first published poems: Night and Morning. Because of their political activities, Burlyuk and Mayakovsky were expelled from the Moscow Art School in 1914.   His work continued in the Futurist vein until 1914. His artistic development then shifted increasingly in the direction of narrative and it was this work, published during the period immediately preceding the Russian Revolution, which was to establish his reputation as a poet in Russia and abroad. A Cloud in Trousers (1915) was Mayakovsky’s first major poem of appreciable length and it depicted the heated subjects of love, revolution, religion and art.