V. Mayakovsky by lifetime and postumous foreign press

Vladimir Mayakovsky was a well-known figure for foreign journalists. His craving for everything “stoverst” prompted his need to expand the “KomFut” ideas to “out-of-soviet” space, while his romantic worldview has set a landmark goal in building a bright future, that is, to get the “new word” across to the “inveterate capitalists”. Considering this, in 1922-1924 Vladimir Mayakovsky went abroad to Latvia (up to 1940 Latvia was not in the Soviet Union), France (Paris) and Germany (Berlin). After his first international trips Mayakovsky wrote essays and poems based on his European impressions (“How does a democratic republic work?” (1922), “Paris (Talks with the Eiffel Tower)” (1923)). Mayakovsky went to Paris several times more in the period of 1925-1929, and he would always reflect his trips and impressions in his verse (such as lyrical cycle “Paris” (1924-1925). In 1925 Mayakovsky’s interest in engaging the reader's attention went further than Europe, as he traveled across to America to perform in public...