David Burliuk - Demenok E.L.

In our country, David Burlyuk is known mainly as a teacher and senior friend of Vladimir Mayakovsky. However, burlyuk's figure is incredibly large and interesting in itself. "Father of Russian Futurism," whose name embodied in Russia at the beginning of the last century, was all new and rebellious in art, he lived a long life, writing about 20,000 paintings and thousands of poems and gaining recognition in three countries - Russia, Japan and America. The book of the writer and researcher of the avant-garde Eugene Demenka tells about how he managed it. This is the first complete biography of David Davidovich, based not only on literary sources, but primarily on the memories of Burlyuk himself and the archives of his family members. Separate sections are devoted to the fate of his brothers and sisters, who were also involved in art. Many details about burlyuks' fate are published for the first time.