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Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was a Soviet poet, playwright, artist, and actor. started to write poetry during solitary confinement in 1909. On his release he attended the Moscow Art School and joined, with David Burlyuk and a few others, the Russian Futurist group and soon became its leading spokesman. In 1912 the group published a manifesto, Poshchochina obshchestvennomu vkusu (“A Slap in the Face of Public Taste”), and Mayakovsky’s poetry became conspicuously self-assertive and defiant in form and content.