The memoirs of the “father of Russian futurism,” poet and artist David Burliuk, are published for the first time. The reader will find in the book reliable and entertaining material about the life of the Russian artistic avant-garde. The figures of V. Khlebnikov, V. Mayakovsky, I. Severyanin, V. Kamensky, F. Sologub, I. Repin, M. Gorky are depicted in close-up. Also, letters from D. Burliuk to E. Gollerbach are published for the first time; the poet's poems, sent by himself from New York for publication in his homeland; memoirs of D. Burliuk's wife - M. N. Burliuk. The appendix publishes partly unknown texts, partly reproduced in reprint editions, by Velimir Khlebnikov.