The sisters of Mayakovsky biography

Vladimir Mayakovsky and senior sisters Lyudmila and Olga Older sister Lyudmila, with a firm, strong -willed character, completely gave her life to the family and had a great influence on her brother and sister. Vladimir and Olga, who were friendly from childhood, in difficult cases always turned to her and received valuable tips.

All three spent their childhood in Georgia, and after the death of her father, they moved to Moscow, where Lyudmila studied at the Stroganovsky School. It was in Moscow that the formation of Mayakovsky as a poet took place. The family had no money. Living in a rented apartment in Bolshaya Presnya, 36, 24, Mayakovsky rented one of the rooms to replenish a small family budget.

Their residents usually became poor students or acquaintances who came from the Caucasus. At the same time, Vladimir occupied the smallest room, and the sisters divided one for two. Mayakovsky wrote: “There is no money in the family. I had to burn and draw. Easter eggs were especially remembered. Round, spin and creak like doors. I sold eggs to a handicraft store on Neglinnaya. A piece of 10 - 15 kopecks.

Since then, I endlessly hate Bemov, Russian style and shrubs. ” But, no matter how hard the family lives, all the children received education. Mayakovsky entered the school of painting, sculpture and architecture. Talent and ability to draw showed in him, like his sisters, as a child. Lyudmila recalled: “Preparing for admission to the Stroganov School, I took drawing lessons from the only artist Kutais, who graduated from the Academy of Arts, is rubella.

I showed him Volodya’s drawings, he found him very capable and offered to deal with him for free. Classes went interestingly, and no one looked at the watch. Volodya caught me in the figure. It was embarrassed, but also joyful to have a talented brother. We began to think that Volodya would be an artist. ” Living with his mother and sisters on Big Presnya, Mayakovsky took an active part in the artistic life of Moscow, the struggle of various schools, groups, and creative directions.

He introduced new friends to his relatives. Kamensky “surprised that at home, with mother and sisters, Volodya became completely different: quiet, meek, shy, gentle, charming son and brother. And it was obvious that Volodya’s houses were warmly loved and considered a holiday every parish. ” Mayakovsky invited the sisters to performs. In the book of memoirs about my brother, Lyudmila wrote: “There are so many people that my sister and I were sitting on the edge of the stage.

Volodya in a black velvet blouse, hot, inspired, read his first verses. Then I was delighted and even stunned that Volodya could become a poet. I always loved poetry, but I believed that the poetic gift is special, accessible only to exclusive people, and it was difficult to immediately admit that Volodya was one of these exceptional, special people, that he is a poet.

” In addition, the “stage” costumes of the Futurist poet, who strove for the maximum shocking both in poems and in clothes, were sewn by mother and sisters. Such a tie to some extent decorated the shabby, faded satin and velvet black blouses that Volodya wore then. ” The famous, sensational yellow jacket also appeared. Mayakovsky, choosing the fabric, brought her home and asked his relatives for help.

I was going to get angry with Volodya for this next fiction, but when I saw how the jacket was going to him, shaken his beautiful dark face, how his eyes burned with the bold brilliance, how proud and decisive in the offensive movement his tall and folding young figure, I saved. Volodya rushed. Mom and sister together knocked out a jacket, ”Lyudmila recalled. The Mayakovsky family lived together, although the sisters did not always understand and accepted his brother's hobbies futurism.

Lyudmila described the case associated with the manifesto of the “slap in the face of social taste”: “Soon after the release of the“ slap in the face ”, I had a single -volume person of Pushkin from the desk. Volodya was silent. A few days later he brought me Pushkin and said: “Don’t worry, please don’t be angry, and yours and my Pushkin will stay in place, but now it is necessary!

.. And he left.” These words made an impression on me and made me more serious about what Volodya did. ” In the year, the family went: Vladimir began to live independently, became close to Briks, left for Petrograd for some time, and the sisters remained with his mother in the beloved Presnensky district. Mayakovsky often visited them and always tried to help “Volodya ran to us and said that he was going to France and if he could, then to America.

He asked what to bring to us. We thought: he does not go to America for a walk, he will have a lot of work, you need to see a lot. What to ask him about? And we said: - What do you want, then bring, we do not ask for anything. Then, when he went, her sister went out to the site and shouted: - Bring stockings! And when Volodya returned from America, it turned out that he did not forget about the stockings for Olya, brought me and my mother gifts.

He brought his mother to a needle to put a machine to his mother. ” The posters were rapidly propagated by a stencil way and hung it on the streets, in the windows of stores.Volodya eagerly agreed to accept me and my sister in growth, warning us: “Placies are needed for the deadline, they are not needed the next day. If you can work like that, then work! It was cold, the template dried poorly, the paint dragged to the next template.

But one hundred and fifty pieces of posters from one template had to do it! Usually it was three days. The work was very intense. And again, the whole family was set to work. We worked with great enthusiasm and rejoiced at the benefits that we brought, and what we worked with Volodya. ” The Mayakovsky family helped with the receipt in Moscow of the first apartment in Studenetsky, 6, according to Lyudmila’s memoirs: “At the end of the year, we received from the“ Trekhgorenaya Manufactory ”, where I worked, a new apartment, not far from the factory.

Volodya gave us the amount that was required to contribute to become a shareholder of the working cooperative for building an apartment. And now our working cooperative built and gave us a small apartment. Volodya and Olya went to watch her when we had not yet moved. Then Volodya came when we settled in a new apartment, and looked again, was surprised.

What a wonderful apartment! And the bathroom and the balcony! Volodya was happy that we received a good apartment. He brought radio with headphones and gave us. He was busy to put the phone with us, and also paid some amount for the cable laying. ” After the death of Vladimir Mayakovsky, the goal of his mother and sisters was the propaganda of his creative heritage. The efforts of Lyudmila Mayakovskaya opened the Museum in Baghdadi, it was a member of the editorial board of the publication of the complete works of Mayakovsky and the jury on the construction of the monument to the poet on the Triumphal Square.

Thanks to her letters, the country's leadership decided to organize the museum in the Lubyansky passage - the house where the poet's study was located. In addition, shortly before his death, Lyudmila handed the museum the entire family archive and the very apartment in Studenetsky lane, which Mayakovsky helped them to buy.