About That (Про это) is a poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky written during the self-imposed two-months "exile" after a row with Lilya Brik.

The poem's first separate edition was illustrated by Alexander Rodchenko who in his montages used photographs made by Mayakovsky and Lilya Brik.

[1] In summer 1922 Lilya Brik fell in love with Alexander Krasnoshchyokov, the then head of the newly formed Prombank.

In her 1956 book of memoirs Brik remembered:I came to the railway station and found him on the platform, waiting for me on the wagon steps.

On 3 April 1923, speaking at a Proletkult meeting, Mayakovsky attempted to define the poem's main idea which, apparently, remained unclear to many of his colleagues.

In early March 1923 Mayakovsky for the first time read the poem in public, in the Briks' home, at the Vodopyany Lane.

Among those present were Lunacharsky with his wife, actress Natalya Rosenel, Nikolai Aseyev, David Shterenberg, Alexander Rodchenko, Boris Pasternak.

Natalya Lunacharskaya-Rosenel remembered:Anatoly Vasilyevich has always admired Mayakovsky the performer, but this time Vladimir Vladimirovich was under some particular inspiration.

[6]In summer 1923, in Siberia Lunacharsky was still speaking of Mayakovsky's poem with the greatest enthusiasm, praising it as "the huge phenomena."