High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Russian Futurism is the term used to denote a group of Russian poets and artists who adopted the principles of Filippo Marinetti`s "Manifesto of Futurism". Russian futurism may be said to have been initiated during December 1912, when the Moscow-based literary group Hylaea (Russian: Гилея ) (initiated during 1910 by David Burlyuk and his brothers at their estate near Kherson, and joined quickly by Vasily Kamensky and Velimir Khlebnikov, with Aleksey Kruchenykh and Vladimir Mayakovsky joining during 1911) issued a manifesto entitled A Slap in the Face of Public Taste. Although Hylaea is generally considered to be the most influential group of Russian Futurism, other groups were formed in St. Petersburg (Igor Severyanin`s Ego-Futurists), Moscow (Tsentrifuga, with Boris Pasternak among its members), Kiev, Kharkov, and Odessa.