House Museum of Mayakovskiy, Imereti Region, Georgia
4.5 (7 reviews) Spent 1-2 hours Ranking #2 in Bagdati Speciality Museums
Just 20 minutes from Kutaisi, in Bagdati, a museum dedicated to home life of futurist Russian poet
"I was born in the Caucasus, my father is a Cossack, my mother is Ukrainian. My mother tongue is Georgian. Thus three cultures are united in me," the Bagdati born Russian futurist poet said in a 1927 interview. For Mayakovsky, Georgia was his eternal symbol of beauty. "I know, it's nonsense, Eden and Paradise, but since people sang about them -- It must have been Georgia, the joyful land, that those poets were having in mind", he wrote later. This museum is well tended and curated. Give it a visit. Mayakovsky's relationship with the Soviet state was always complex & at times tumultuous. Mayakovsky engaged in confrontation with the increasing involvement of the Soviet State in cultural censorship and the development of the doctrine of Socialist Realism. Many of his works contained criticism or satire of aspects of the Soviet system, such as the poem "Talking With the Taxman About Poetry" (1926), the play The Bedbug (1929) & The Bathhouse (1929), which were scorned by the Soviet state and literary establishment. While you are in Bagdati, check out the wonderful little natural and authentic western region of Georgia wineries in adjacent Obcha district!
Address
Bagdatskaya St. 51, Bagdati 1000 Georgia
Website
http://www.visitkutaisi.com/en/seeanddo/mustseeanddo/baghdati/51-vladimirmayakovskimuseum
Current local date and time now
Monday, May 13, 2024, 1:25
User Ratings
4.5 based on (7 reviews)
