The fatal shot that she heard when leaving the room on Lubyanka, the last affection of the poet - Veronika Polonskaya, sounded on April 14, 1930 ...
The death of Mayakovsky in his thirty-seventh year of life raised many questions among his contemporaries. Why did the genius beloved by the people and the Soviet regime, the “singer of the revolution” voluntarily die?
There is no doubt that it was precisely suicide. The results of the examination carried out by criminologists 60 years after the death of the poet, confirmed that Mayakovsky shot himself. A handwriting examination established the authenticity of a dying letter written two days earlier. The fact that the note was drawn up in advance speaks in favor of the deliberation of this act.
When Yesenin passed away three years earlier, Mayakovsky writes: “It is not difficult to die in this life.
Making life is much more difficult. ” With these lines, he gives a bitter assessment of the flight from reality through suicide. About his own death, he writes: "... this is not a way ... but I have no way out."
We will never know the exact answer to the question of what broke the poet so much. But the voluntary death of Mayakovsky can be partly explained by the events preceding his death. In part, the poet’s choice reveals his work. Famous lines from the poem "Man" written in 1917: "But the heart breaks to a shot, and the throat raves with a razor ...", they speak for themselves.
In general, Mayakovsky’s poetry is a mirror of his nervous, contradictory nature. His poems are either full of teenage enthusiasm and enthusiasm, or bile and bitterness of disappointment. This was described by Vladimir Mayakovsky and contemporaries. Veronika Polonskaya, the main witness of the poet’s suicide, writes in her memoirs: “In general, he always had extremes. I don’t remember Mayakovsky ... calm ... "
The poet had many reasons to draw the last line. Married Lilya Brik, Mayakovsky’s main love and muse, has been approaching and moving away from him all his life, but has never belonged to him entirely. Long before the tragedy, the poet had flirted twice with his fate, and the reason for this was a comprehensive passion for this woman. But then Mayakovsky, whose death still excites the minds, remained alive - the weapon misfired.
Serious health problems began due to overwork and severe flu, the deafening failure of the play “Bath” in March 1930, parting with Tatyana Yakovleva, whom the poet asked to become his wife ... All these life conflicts, indeed, hit after blow as if preparing for Mayakovsky’s death . Kneeling in front of Veronika Polonskaya, persuading her to stay with him, the poet clung to his relationship with her, like a saving straw. But the actress was not ready for such a decisive step as a divorce from her husband ... When the door closed behind her, a revolver with a single bullet in a clip put an end to the life of one of the greatest poets.
The poet in his last note asked not to “gossip” about his act, but for more than eighty years Mayakovsky’s death is one of the most discussed events in the life of Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century ...