On my pavement of my soul

“Mayakovsky goes - both according to the new quarters of Moscow, and according to old Paris, throughout our planet goes with“ blanks ” - not new rhymes, but new thoughts and feelings ...” wrote Ilya Ehrenburg. During his life, Vladimir Mayakovsky drove one hundred and fifty thousand kilometers, went abroad nine times. He visited Poland, Czechoslovakia, Germany, France, Spain, Cuba, Mexico, USA. And each time he brought new poems, essays, drawings from his travels. From there, either the joyful or disturbing letters of the poet Lilya Brik flew - he was the first to be in a hurry to tell about staying abroad.
Acquaintance with the culture of other countries, communication with the indigenous inhabitants and emigrants, rich impressions of what he saw became the basis of his prose written by his prose. In the same marching, drum rhythm, which is so familiar with his poems and which brightly distinguishes Mayakovsky"s voice among all other voices