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MAYAKOVSKY, Vladimir Vladimirovich (1893-1930) (l

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Petrograd: 1ya Gosudarstvennaya Litografiya, 1918. 12 pp., square folio (350 x 340 mm). Title, facsimile inscription on verso, 6 pp. sheet music. Original cream thick self wrappers, the upper cover printed in black, red and blue to a design by P.V. Miturich. Condition: discoloration to contents, extensive marginal restoration to tears, the tears occasionally affecting the printed area; some soiling and old creasing, restoration to backstrip and margins, two repairs running into image area on upper cover. rare revolutionary marching song by three heroic figures of the russian avant-garde. Mayakovsky's call for revolutionary action first appeared in the first number of the Futurist gazeta [The Futurist Gazette] of 1918. Lure was a Russian avant-garde composer and lover of Anna Akhmatova. He served as head of the music division of the Commissariat of Enlightenment or Narkompros under Anatolii Lunacharskii, but he eventually grew disillusioned with the Soviets. In 1921 he went on an offiicial mission to Berlin and never returned to the USSR. Miturich was an important Russian avant-garde artist and painted Lure's portrait. They later collaborated on a selection of music for children Royal v detskoi [The Children's Royal Piano] (1920).

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