DAVID BURLIUK’S BIOGRAPHICAL FAMILY MANUSCRIPT

Abstract

The publication presents a manuscript of the family diary of a famous poet, artist, literary and artistic critic, one of the founders of the futurism movement David Burliuk (1882 – 1967) and his younger sister, Ludmila Kuznetsova-Burliuk (1884 – 1968). Preliminary stated by D. Burliuk final dates of the document covered the period 1882 – 1967 (in fact – from 1894 until the last date mentioned in the manuscript – 1936, with interruptions). Given this, this diary cannot be considered as a completed document. It is obvious that its part, filled by David Burliuk, was completely executed in 1957 during the first visit of the artist from the United States to his sisters Lyudmila and Marianna (wife of the Czech artist Vaclav Fiala) to Prague. Having visited the capital of the Czechoslovakia the second time (and last time) in 1962, D. Burliuk did not return to work on this diary any more. It was not possible to determine the date of writing the text by the author of Lyudmila Kuznetsova-Burlyuk. The proposed publication focuses primarily on researchers of the work of David Burliuk himself and his friends – well-known artists from among the supporters of the futuristic movement popularized in the first decades of the last century: Volodymyr Mayakovsky, Velimir Khlebnikov, and others.