David Burliuk – many-faced and individual

INTRODUCTION . The creative personality of David Burliuk gave grounds for naming a kind of International Avant-garde Artistic Award after him. Consider the incarnations of the creative personality of the “father of Russian futurism” David Burliuk means to penetrate into the world of avant-garde art and various forms of artistry, which is especially relevant these days, representing great interest for the study of Russian futurism. The purpose of the article is to show the diversity of activities of the father of Russian futurism, David Burliuk, in establishing new forms of art. MATERIALS AND METHODS . The research material was the personal experience of the author of the article working with the work of David Burliuk, the life and work of those associated with the Tambov region. Techniques for collecting, systematizing and analyzing material underlie the methods used, including bibliographic, descriptive, linguistic and poetic. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION . The hypostases of the creative personality of David Burliuk are considered, which gave grounds for assigning a kind of avant-garde artistic award to his name. The innovative activity of David Burliuk as the organizer of the leading futurist group “Gilea”, the initiator of exhibitions, publishing projects, presentations of the work of cubo-futurists in different cities and regions of Russia is described. CONCLUSION . The features of David Burliuk’s poetic work with nonstandard forms are revealed, in which he acted as an innovator, stimulating the search for his colleagues, especially those who joined the movement as it developed. An important hypostasis of Burliuk’s creative personality has been established – the “instinct of aesthetic self-preservation” – the recording of creative activity in memoirs, correspondence and in the magazine “Color and Rhyme”.