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Venedikt Erofeev, the beginning of 40s. Venedict with his brother Boris. The beginning of 50s. The photograph on first passport. 1954 Venedikt. The end of 50s A writer’s teacher of Russian Language and Literature Sofya Zakharovna Neustroeva (Kirovsk, 1976)
The family of Erofeev sitting at the samovar. The leftmost is Vena, in the center is the mother. Kirovsk, the beginning of 50s. V. Yerofeev’s wife Valentina and son Venedikt. 1967 Venedikt. 70s Venedikt Yerofeev is in an auditorium. Photo of A. Efremov Relatives of Venedikt Yerofeev, a sister Tamara is on the left, brother Boris. November, 1999
Venedikt 1988 Natasha Shmelkova and Venedikt. January 1990 Venedikt Yerofeev’s friend Natasha Shmelkova, November 1999 A sister Nina Vasilevna Frolova (Yerofeeva), November 1999 A grandniece of the writer Elena Yerofeeva, a student of Kirovsk school №12, November 1999
Valery Berlin, Boris Blinov, Olga Andreeva, Vera Ogurtsova are visiting Venedikt Yerofeev’s sister Tamara Vasilevna Gushchina (in the center), October 1999 Relatives of Venedikt Yerofeev, a sisters Tamara (on the right) and Nina, brother Boris are at the commemorative plaque just after its opening, 21st of November 1999 Sisters Tamara Vasilievna Gushchina, Nina Vasilievna Frolova, brother Boris Vasilievich Yerofeev The first literary occasion on the stage of the House of Culture of public corporation Apatit Tamara Vasilievna and Boris Blinov are opening the museum exposition
The opening of the commemorative plaque in honer of Venedikt Yerofeev on the building of school №1 in Kirovsk, 21st of November 1999 Nikolay Kovalev is on the opening of the commemorative plaque, 21st of November 1999

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Contemporaries about Venedikt Yerofeev

“Having never messed up the inviolable neat wings of the soul and conscience, artistic and human destiny with the clutter, anxiety, nonsense, he fulfilled it completely, fulfilled it, clear the debt written to all humans that were born with. In this sense, the fate is perfect, happy. This meaning is main and the only one ".

Bella Akhmadulina

 

"Venichka was not so much rejected by the world as he rejected it himself, but he did not built a wall around himself, but challenged, bitterly and terribly expressing his disagreement with the structure of the world, showing that he was different." 

Efim Kurganov

 

"Yerofeev is a very Russian author, that is, a writer for whom secular literature is closely tied to the Christian tradition of revelation, a spiritual breakthrough from everyday life to being. The text of Erofeev is always an experience of intense religious experience. His whole outlook is filled with apocalyptic pathos." 

Alexander Genis

 

"Maybe the spectators of the Greek tragedy were experiencing something similar to what the "Petushki" inspired us: this fear and compassion for the innocent and at the same time perplexedly guilty dying hero." 

Olga Sedakova

Works of Venedikt Yerofeev

“Notes by psychopath” as a writer noticed “it is his first notable piece of writing that was begun at the age of 17, the largest and the most ridiculous from what was written”. It has a form of a diary. A reader will immerse in tragicomic narration, that refers to the time of the author’s studying in the University and then expelling “from students to the proletariat”.

“Moscow-Petushki” (a poem in prose, 1970; it was published in 1988-1989). It is the most well-known Venedikt Yerofeev’s work. It was written in 1970. The first publication was in AMI Israeli almanac in 1973. The poem was published in the USSR for the first time in a significantly shortened form in Sobriety and Culture journal in December 1988-1989.  

"Walpurgis night, or the commander's footsteps." Tragedy in 5 acts."The beginning of work on this piece of writing was from December 31, 1984 to the end of April 18, 1985. The first publication of the play in Kontinent journal (Paris) - №45 and in Yugoslavia (Jerofejev, Venedikt. Valpurgijska noc ili Koraci Komandora. Prev. Aleksandr Badnjarevic. Novi Sad: Polja, 1985). In the USSR it was published in 1989. 

"Eccentric's view on Vasily Rozanov" (an essay, 1973, it was published in 1989). "Vasily Rozanov", essay. For the first time it was published on 13th of July 1973 in Veche journal № 8.

"My little Leniniana" (a collage, it was published in Paris in 1988, in Russia in 1991). Collection of quotations from the works of Lenin. For the first time published in Kontinent journal (№55, 1988). 

"Useless fossil" (“Bespoleznoe iskopaemoe”) (the book is based on the notebooks of the writer’s prose). This book contains notes from the notebooks of Venedikt Yerofeev, representing his accurate remarks on life situations, his "thoughts aloud".

“Sasha Cherny and Others,” essay. It was written in January and it was published posthumously for the first time (First in Nezavisimaya Gazeta No. 9, 1991, then in Russian Thought journal No. 3879, 1991, Kontinent journal No. 67, 1991, and in Theater journal No. 9, 1991).