11 Facts About Vladimir Tatlin

Vladimir Tatlin achieved fame as the architect who designed The Monument to the Third International, more commonly known as Vladimir Tatlin's Tower, which he began in 1919.

Vladimir Tatlin's father, Yevgraf Nikoforovich Tatlin was a hereditary nobleman from Oryol, a mechanical engineer graduated from the Technological Institute in St Petersburg and employed by the Moscow-Brest Railway in Moscow.

Vladimir Tatlin's mother, Nadezhda Nikolaevna Tatlina was a poet who sympathized with the Narodnaya Volya revolutionary movement.

Vladimir Tatlin sang in Ukrainian and was a professional musician-bandurist, and performed as such abroad.

Vladimir Tatlin became familiar with the work of Pablo Picasso during a trip to Paris in 1913.

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Vladimir Tatlin achieved fame as the architect who designed the huge Monument to the Third International, known as Vladimir Tatlin's Tower.

Vladimir Tatlin was regarded as a progenitor of Soviet post-Revolutionary Constructivist art with his pre-Revolutionary counter-reliefs, three-dimensional constructions made of wood and metal, some placed in corners and others more conventionally.

Vladimir Tatlin conceived these sculptures in order to question the traditional ideas of art, though he did not regard himself as a Constructivist and objected to many of the movement's ideas.

Vladimir Tatlin dedicated himself to the study of clothes, and various objects, and flight, culminating in the construction of Letatlin personal flying apparatus.

Vladimir Tatlin worked for and with many Soviet art organizations, including the department of Fine Arts of Narkompros.

Vladimir Tatlin died in 1953 in Moscow and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.