Vladimir Mayakovsky was a Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, screenwriter, and artist, one of the most prominent figures of 20th-century literature. He was born in the village of Baghdadi into the family of a forester. After his father’s death, the family moved to Moscow. He studied at a gymnasium, where he published his first poem in an illegal school magazine. He then became involved in the revolutionary movement, joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, and was arrested several times. From 1911, he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where he became close to the Cubo-Futurists. Soon he began actively publishing his poetry. In the pre-revolutionary years, he created the poems “A Cloud in Trousers”, “The Backbone Flute”, “War and the World”, and the tragedy “Vladimir Mayakovsky”. After 1917, he took an active part in the cultural life of the country, collaborated with ROSTA, created propaganda posters (“ROSTA Windows”), and wrote the poems “150,000,000”, “Vladimir Ilyich Lenin”, “Good!”, as well as the plays “The Bedbug”, “The Bathhouse”, and “Mystery-Bouffe”, which were staged by Vsevolod Meyerhold. He edited the journals “LEF” (“Left Front of the Arts”) and “New LEF” and gave numerous performances in the USSR and abroad. The collection of the Bakhrushin Theatre Museum includes photographs of Vladimir Mayakovsky, as well as costume sketches and scenery designs for productions based on his works, archival documents, and other materials related to the poet’s life and career.