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VLADIMIR MAYAKOVSKY was born in April 1893 in Georgia, but moved with his family to Moscow in 1906 after the premature death of his father. In Moscow, he became involved in the activities of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (the Bolsheviks) and was imprisoned on three occasion for subversive political activities, although he avoided transportation because he was so young. In 1911, he jo...