This Is How Mayakovsky Began [1218847] Released: 1959-08-24 Revenue: $0 Budget: $0 Profit: $0 Runtime: 95 mins Popularity: 0.0985 Vote Average: 0 Vote Count: 0 Overview: Based on the autobiographical book "Ya -sam" (I-myself) by Vladimir Mayakovsky the leading Russian Futurist poet of the beginning of the 20th century. He was born in 1893, into a Russian Cossack family in the Transcaucasian kingdom of Georgia, then part of Russian Empire. There he spent his childhood and boyhood attending a grammar school in Kutaisi. Mayakovsky moved to Moscow at the age of 14, after his father's death. He became a poet, an artist, an actor, a writer/director and public speaker. Cast [17] Rodam ChelidzeVolodia Mayakovs Akaki KhoravaMayakovsky's fat Nina ShaternikovaMother Antonina MaksimovaLyudmila Emiliya SudakovaOlya Guram TsereteliArsena Zurab LaperadzeMikho Edisher MagalashviliDavid Igor VladimirovVasiliev Mikheil KvarelashviliAkaki Tsereteli Irine MagalashviliNato Enriko GhaghanidzeLado Meskhishvil Akaki VasadzeAlikhanov-Avarsk Lazare KazaishviliKokorev Lyudvig ZakrzhevskiyKolpakov Pyotr DolzhanovPhotographer Tengiz Amiranashvili Trailers