Daily LIFT #1828

Vladimir Mayakovsky before a wall of satirical posters he drew -- Daily LIFT #1828

From the Soviet Press 1947: On April 14 the Soviet people commemorated the 17th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Mayakovsky, great revolutionary poet. During the years of civil war following the Revolution, Mayakovsky, an ardent patriot, poured much energy into writing verses for satirical posters which he himself drew (some samples of which are shown in the background of the photograph above). Mayakovsky's long poems have become part of the classics of Russian literature. Stalin said of him: "Mayakovsky was and remains the best, most talented poet of our Soviet epoch."