Bidspirit auction | MAYAKOVSKY VLADIMIR: (1893-1930) Rare autograph

MAYAKOVSKY VLADIMIR: (1893-1930) Rare autograph statement ”The brotherhood of workers and no other!´” - MAYAKOVSKY VLADIMIR: (1893-1930) Russian Poet, playwright and Artist. During the pre-Revolution period Mayakovsky became renowned as a prominent figure of the Russian Futurist movement. Though Mayakovsky's work demonstrated ideological support for the Bolsheviks and a strong admiration of Lenin, his relationship with the Soviet state was often tumultuous, finding himself engaged in confrontation with the increasing involvement of the Soviet state in cultural censorship. Mayakovsky commited suicide at the early age of 36, his funeral was attended by around 150,000 persons, the third largest event of public mourning in Soviet history, surpassed only by those of Lenin and Stalin. Rare autograph statement signed ` Vl. Mayakovsky´, one page, 4to, Prague, 21st April 1927, in Cyrillic. Mayakovsky states ` I do not waste words on the Slavic brotherhood - The brotherhood of workers and no other! ´. VG Provenance: From an album which was previously part of a private autograph collection formed by an Antiquarian Bookseller in Prague during the 1960s.