Mayakovsky Museum

The Mayakovsky Museum is a fascinating and bewildering glimpse of the life, loves, literary and artistic works of perhaps Russia's most famous Futurist poet, Vladimir Mayakovsky.

Born in 1893, Mayakovsky became a writer and artist and a devoted supporter of the Bolsheviks.

He attended the Moscow School for Painting and Sculpture, where is initial interest in the Futurist movement was kindled and was inspired to found the Left Front of Art in the wake of the October Revolution of 1917, with fellow Futurists Alexander Rodchenko and Osip Brik, Mayakovsky moved into a room in the modest communal apartment, which now hosts the museum, in 1919 and lived here intermittently until 1930.

Some of the rooms which he occupied have been preserved just as they were when Mayakovsky tragically committed suicide.

The poet is famous for his flamboyant character, his political cartoons and his poetry and numerous prose works. The museum is an unorthodox profusion of colors, futurist structures, original manuscripts and photographs of the poet, which combine to make the visitor rather feel as if he is taking a stroll through Mayakovsky's brain! The museum is a real experience and shouldn't be missed!