Born
in Georgia in the village of Bagdadi, into the family of forester, in 1902
he went to secondary school in Kutaisi and later studied in Moscow where
the whole family moved after his father's death. Mayakovsky left school
in 1908 to devote himself to underground revolutionary work. At the age
of fifteen he joined the RSDLP(B) and carried out propoganda work. He was
arrested three times and in 1909 he was kept in solitary confinement in
the Butyrsky prison. It was there that he has began writing poetry.
Poems:
The Violin -- A Little
Bit Nervous,
To His Own Beloved Self
The Author Dedicates This Lines.