Nikolai Davidovich Burliuk (, Russian: Николай Давидович Бурлюк; April 22, 1890 – 1920) was a Ukrainian poet, linguist, and artist associated with the

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and Neo-Primitivist movements. He was the younger brother of

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and

Wladimir Burliuk Vladimir Davydovych Burliuk (; ; – 1917) was a Ukrainian avant-garde artist ( Neo-Primitivist and Cubo-Futurist) and book illustrator from the Russian empire. He died at the age of 32 in 1917 in World War I. Biography Vladimir Davydovych Bur ...

, prominent leaders in the

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. He is presumed to have been executed while fighting for the

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in 1920.

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