To everyone

To everyoneBlame no one for my death, and please don’t gossip. The deceased really hated gossip.Mama, my sisters and comrades, forgive me-this is not a good method (I don’t recommend any others) but I have no other way out.Lili-Iove me.Comrade government, my family is Lili Brik, mama, my sisters and Veronika Vitoldovna Polonskaya.If you grant them a bearable life-thank you.Give the unfinished poems to the Briks, they understand them.   As they say-      «the game is over»love’s boat has smashed against the reef of the everyday.   I’m quits with life   And there is no reason   To keep a record of pains cares and quarrels.Be happy,
Comrades in VAPP, don’t call me a faintheartSeriously -there was nothing else to doGreetingsTell Yermilov I’m sorry I took the placard down, ought to have had our quarrel out   There are 2,000 rubles in the table drawer pay the tax with them.Take the rest from Gosizdat

Vladimir Mayakovsky.  

Committed suicide on April 14, 1930, the news sent shock waves through the Soviet Union. Ilya Ehrenburg, who knew of Mayakovsky’s notorious gambling habit, thought he might have been playing Russian roulette with his beloved Mauser pistol and lost his bet.