Unveiling the Mystery of Mayakovsky's Suicide
Pravda 
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Moscow (Russia):
April 14, 1930 Leningrad's Krasnaya Gazeta (Red Newspaper) reported that Soviet poet Vladimir Mayakovsky committed suicide by shooting himself at 10:17 a.m. that very day.
When ambulance came to the suicide site doctors found the poet dead.Vladimir Mayakovsky became a national hero of the USSR, for he was praising and glorifying the communist regime in the Soviet Union. However, specialists believe that he was greatly disappointed in what was actually going on in the country.
The personnel of the National Mayakovsky Museum compiled and published a book of documents, the evidence of Mayakovsky's case and recollections of his contemporaries. The other day, the museum organized the presentation of the book.
It is the first chance for readers to know all details of the investigation of Mayakovsky's case. In 1995, the archives of the RF Presidential Administration handed the case of the poet over to the National Mayakovsky Museum.
In addition to 139 pages of the investigation, the case also contained photos, letters, a dying note of the poet and a letter from Mayakovsky's beloved, Lilya Brik, to the head of the NKVD Secret Police, Nikolai Yezhov, with Stalin's instructions on it.
Director of the Museum, Svetlana Strizhneva, says that the documents handed over to the museum are too shabby and old. It would be absolutely impossible to publish them in other 50 years because of their condition. So, the Museum is grateful to the publishing house that agreed to publish the book even when it was not clear if the publication would attract many readers.
Oct 26, 2005
Pravda
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Moscow (Russia):
April 14, 1930 Leningrad's Krasnaya Gazeta (Red Newspaper) reported that Soviet poet Vladimir Mayakovsky committed suicide by shooting himself at 10:17 a.m. that very day.
When ambulance came to the suicide site doctors found the poet dead.Vladimir Mayakovsky became a national hero of the USSR, for he was praising and glorifying the communist regime in the Soviet Union. However, specialists believe that he was greatly disappointed in what was actually going on in the country.
The personnel of the National Mayakovsky Museum compiled and published a book of documents, the evidence of Mayakovsky's case and recollections of his contemporaries. The other day, the museum organized the presentation of the book.
It is the first chance for readers to know all details of the investigation of Mayakovsky's case. In 1995, the archives of the RF Presidential Administration handed the case of the poet over to the National Mayakovsky Museum.
In addition to 139 pages of the investigation, the case also contained photos, letters, a dying note of the poet and a letter from Mayakovsky's beloved, Lilya Brik, to the head of the NKVD Secret Police, Nikolai Yezhov, with Stalin's instructions on it.
Director of the Museum, Svetlana Strizhneva, says that the documents handed over to the museum are too shabby and old. It would be absolutely impossible to publish them in other 50 years because of their condition. So, the Museum is grateful to the publishing house that agreed to publish the book even when it was not clear if the publication would attract many readers.
Oct 26, 2005
