Vladimr Maiakovskii. Rokovoi vystrel - Katsis Leonid Fridovich

"Rock shot" by Vladimir Mayakovsky ended the physical life of the poet and gave rise to a huge phenomenon - the myth of Mayakovsky's death. The myth developed according to the laws of literature, both memoirandie, until the moment when In late 1935 I.V. Stalin, who called Mayakovsky "the best and most talented poet of our Soviet era." Since then, "neglect of his memory" has become a crime. People close to the poet who had time to speak about the tragedy before Stalin either fell silent or brought their words in line with the "party line". And those who spoke after Stalin could no longer speak loudly. Stalin's death led to the emergence of a new myth about the murder of the poet around the Briks. The last decades have given rise to ideas about the secret killers of Mayakovsky, forgery of his suicide letter, etc. On these pages Mayakovsky is among a variety of people, opinions and in a variety of situations, which only in its sum give an opportunity to come closer to solving the death of this person.