Vladimir Mayakovsky

A Cloud in Trousers is Mayakovsky's long Futurist poem first published in 1915. It mixes love, rebellion, religion, and revolutionary anger in a deliberately explosive style.

Yes. Mayakovsky was one of the central Russian Futurist poets and helped push poetry toward loud public performance, fractured form, and modern urban imagery.

After the 1917 Revolution, Mayakovsky produced political poems, posters, and public slogans. He worked on ROSTA Windows, a series of agitational poster designs made during the Russian Civil War period.

Mayakovsky died by suicide in Moscow in 1930. His death became a major cultural event in the Soviet literary world.