Poems and Poems with Illustrations and Commentaries

Before you is Mayakovsky, whom you did not know! A lyric poet, a romantic poet, who could speak to the stars, who loved one woman his whole life, his main muse – Lilya Brik, and wrote cheerful children's verses... Before you is the second, unknown aspect of the futurist and "the first poet of the revolution" Vladimir Mayakovsky!
The book presents 50 of Mayakovsky's best lyrical poems and five of his love poems (in full and in selected excerpts), accompanied by detailed comments about the addressees of his poems and the history of their creation, as well as unexpected facts from the poet's biography.
This gift edition is illustrated with rare photographs of Mayakovsky, his drawings, and works of Russian and foreign painting from the first half of the 20th century.