David Burliuk. Demenyuk E.

In our country, David Burliuk is mainly known as the teacher and senior comrade Vladimir Mayakovsky. However, the figure of Burliuk is incredibly large -scale and interesting in itself. “Father of Russian futurism”, whose name was personified at the beginning of the last century in Russia, everything new and rebellious in art, he lived a long life, writing about 20 thousand paintings and thousands of poems and having achieved recognition in three countries - Russia, Japan and America. About how he succeeded, the book of the writer, researcher of the avant -garde Evgeny Demenk, tells. This is the first full biography of David Davidovich, based not only on literary sources, but primarily on the memoirs of Burliuk 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 information about the fate of Burli are published for the first time.