Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (Russian:... Владимир Владимирович Маяковский Baghdati, Georgia, juliojul 7/19 July 1893greg - Moscow, April 14, 1930) was a Russian revolutionary poet and dramatist and one of the most important figures in Russian poetry of the early twentieth century. He was initiator of Russian Futurism. In fact he published in 1912, along with David Burliuk and Velimir Khlebnikov, his manifesto The slap the taste of the public (Пощёчина общественному вкусу).