Lyudmila Mayakovskaya was born in the village of
Fioletovo. In 1910 she graduated from the
Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry, worked as an artist-designer for textiles at the
Moscow enterprises «Trekhgornaya textile manufacture» and the
Red Banner Textile Factory in Moscow, where she headed the
aerography workshop. She was the first woman in the factory to hold an administrative and technical position before the revolution in Russia. In 1925, she participated in the
International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in
Paris, where she received a silver medal for her work. In the same year, she invents and patents a new method of obtaining patterns in Russia. From 1929 to 1949 she taught at the faculty of tissue design at the
Moscow State Textile University and was an assistant professor in the special compositions department. She was training fabric artists at
Vkhutemas. Among her students were artists such as Tatiana Klyukas, Natalia Ganina-Kravtsova, Natalia Kiseleva and others. She published several biographical books about her brother,
Vladimir Mayakovsky. Her exhibitions were held in
France,
United Kingdom,
Italy,
Russia. Her name is included in the catalog «Women of Russian Avant-garde», published in the
USA. The works of Mayakovskaya for the American catalog were selected personally by
Giorgio Armani. == Honours and awards ==