No writer was so inextricably linked with the Russian revolution as Vladimir Mayakovsky. A whole generation of people who grew up on the all-consuming idea of revolution took part in the struggle for a new society. Lily and Osip Brik belonged to this generation. It is impossible to talk about Mayakovsky without talking about them, and vice versa. In the 20s, the Briki-Mayakovsky union became the embodiment of the political and aesthetic avant-garde - and the new avant-garde morality. Mayakovsky was the first poet of the revolution, Osip was one of the leading ideologists in the field of culture, and Lily, with her emancipated views on love, was a symbol of the modern woman. B. Youngfeldt’s book tells not only about this legendary love and friendly union, but also about other people , surrounded Mayakovsky, whose destinies were inextricably linked with that heroic and tragic era. She talks about the whirlpool of political, literary and personal passions, which for many of them turned out to be disastrous. The book, illustrated with a large number of rare photographs, uses hitherto unknown documents from the personal archive of L. Yu. Brik and the archive of the British state security.