Vladimir Mayakovsky turned his personal life into a continuation of poetry - with the same loudness and challenge.

In the summer of 1915, he came to the home of Osip and Lily Brik and read "Cloud in Trousers." The romance began almost immediately, along with a "family of three" that lasted more than ten years: a shared apartment, shared life, shared money from his fees. The public was shocked, Mayakovsky was demonstratively calm: he dedicated almost everything he wrote to Lily and signed "L. Yu. B." Breakups occurred: in the winter of 1922-1923, he locked himself away for two months and wrote the poem "About This."
In New York in 1925, he had a romance with Ellie Jones; in 1926, his daughter Helen-Patricia was born, whom he saw only once - in Nice in 1928.

At that time, in Paris, he met Tatiana Yakovleva - an émigré to whom "Letter to Tatiana Yakovleva" is addressed. He invited her to Moscow, but she did not go; in 1929, he was denied a French visa, and soon she got married. The legend of the roses that were delivered to her for years on the money he left her is still alive today.

The last was the actress of the Moscow Art Theatre, Veronika Polonskaya, the wife of Mikhail Yanshin. Mayakovsky demanded that she divorce and leave the theater. On April 14, 1930, she left his room on Lubyanka Passage - and heard a shot.

Scandals followed him since his youth: a yellow sweater, painted face, futuristic tours with booing and police in the hall. By 1930, they became heavier: the exhibition "20 Years of Work" was demonstratively ignored by his literary colleagues.

In his suicide note, he listed his family: mother, sisters, Lily Brik, Polonskaya. The debate over who among them caused his demise is still unresolved.