In our country, David Burliuk is known mainly as the teacher and senior friend of Vladimir Mayakovsky. However, the figure of Burliuk is incredibly large-scale and interesting in itself. “The Father of Russian Futurism,” whose name personified everything new and rebellious in art in Russia at the beginning of the last century, he lived a long life, writing about 20 thousand paintings and thousands of poems and achieving recognition in three countries - Russia, Japan and America. The book of writer and avant-garde researcher Evgeniy Demenok tells how he managed this. This is the first complete biography of David Davidovich, based not only on literary sources, but primarily on the memories of Burliuk himself and the archives of his family members. Separate sections are devoted to the destinies of his brothers and sisters, who were also involved in art. Much information about the fate of the Burlyuks is being published for the first time.