 In 1925, Vladimir Mayakovsky published two of his poems in his Constructivist journal "LEF", having met the younger poet on a visit to Odessa.Upon moving to Moscow the same year, Kirsanov began an apprenticeship with Mayakovsky and the poet Nikolay Aseev and, in the public imagination, inherited his mentor's torch after Mayakovsky's death in 1930.For a more complete biography, see Maxim D. Schrayer's "An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature", Vol.