Remembered for his 1928 play The Suicide, this Soviet writer also penned a 1924 dramatic work titled The Mandate, as well as the screenplay for the 1928 silent movie The House on Trubnaya. Also a poet, he published a 1922 verse collection titled Self-Portrait. He published his first poem at the age of nineteen. Five years later, he began his long-term collaboration with stage director, producer, and actor Vsevolod Meyerhold.
