Talk:Vladimir Mayakovsky

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The second sentence here:

After his death, Mayakovsky was attacked in the Soviet press as a "formalist" and a "fellow-traveller". In 1935, Stalin wrote a remark on Lilya Brik's letter to him:

took me more than one reading to work out what it appears to mean - that Lilya Brik wrote to Stalin (about Mayakovsky?) - perhaps it could be rephrased to something like:

After his death, Mayakovsky was attacked in the Soviet press as a "formalist" and a "fellow-traveller". When, in 1935, his widow Lilya Brik wrote to Stalin (about this?), Stalin wrote a remark on Brik's letter: ...

I'm hesitating to make the chagne myself because I'm still not 100% sure. Palmiro | Talk 18:57, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Good suggestion. I made the change, thanks. ←Humus sapiens←ну? 06:30, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

It is unclear why Lilya Brik is his widow. There is no mention of marriage in the main text. When did they marry?

Guys, be careful here. Lilya was never Mayakovskiy's wife (despite this fact she always insisted that she was his widow de facto).

[edit] Elli Jones?

For God's sake, guys, what is this stuff? http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22elli+jones%22+mayakovsky+-%22on+a+lecture+tour%22+-wikipedia&btnG=Search Not a single page on the internet except those at wikipedia and forums discussing pages thereof and gained knowledge therefrom. --Dennis