Background
Nikolai Davidovich Burliuk was born on April 22, 1890, in Kotelva village, Akhtyrsky county, Kharkov province (now Kharkov Oblast, Ukraine).
Nikolai Davidovich Burliuk was born on April 22, 1890, in Kotelva village, Akhtyrsky county, Kharkov province (now Kharkov Oblast, Ukraine).
In 1901-1909, Nikolai Davidovich studied at the Kherson Gymnasium. In 1909-1914, he studied at the Saint Petersburg University at the historical-philological and physical-mathematical faculties. In 1915-1917, Nikolai Davidovich was on military service in Petrograd (Saint Petersburg).
At the beginning of 1910, Nikolai Davidovich published the collection Studiya impressionistov. He took part in all the major publications of Gilei and futuristic performances in Saint Petersburg and Moscow. Burliuk's poetry was influenced by the poetics of symbolism. His poems are characterized by archaizing verse technique, the deliberate heaviness of images, and elegiac mood. Burliuk’s lyrical prose develops the poetics of "double vision", opening in everyday reality the second, fantastic-mythological plan. Burliuk's views on modern art were more left-wing than the position taken by him in the literary struggle.