This Is How Mayakovsky Began

August. 24,1959

Rating：

5.5

Genre：

Drama History Family

Keywords：

Poet

Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Akaki Khorava as Mayakovsky's father

Nina Shaternikova as Mother

Antonina Maksimova as Lyudmila

Zurab Laperadze as Mikho

Edisher Magalashvili as David

Igor Vladimirov as Vasiliev

Akaki Vasadze as Alikhanov-Avarski

Pyotr Dolzhanov as Photographer

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