To answer this question, I suggest reading the memoirs of the People's Commissar Anatoly Lunacharsky. To answer your question briefly, Vladimir Ilyich loved classical music, for example, Beethoven, theater (Moscow Art Theater), and contemporary art, in particular, the poetry of Vladimir Mayakovsky, Ilyich was not close in spirit.
To answer this question, I suggest reading the memoirs of the People's Commissar Anatoly Lunacharsky. To answer your question briefly, Vladimir Ilyich loved classical music, for example, Beethoven, theater (Moscow Art Theater), and contemporary art, in particular, the poetry of Vladimir Mayakovsky, Ilyich was not close in spirit.
Link to an excerpt from the memoirs of A. V. Lunacharsky