Journal version of the final chapter of the biographical monograph "Venedikt Erofeev: an outsider." The book is fully published in the fall of 2018 in the "Edition of Elena Shubina."
Venedikt Erofeev was familiar with Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
In the biographical monograph "Venedikt Erofeev: an outsider" (Oleg Lekmanov, Mikhail Sverdlov, Ilya Simanovsky), this meeting is described.
In the intermission of the evening of Gubanov's memory, Erofeeva was brought to Yevtushenko by Natalya Shmelkova, who noted in her diary: "" You know, "Yevtushenko told him," when I read Moscow - Petushki in Siberia, I really wanted to drink. "-" What's the matter? - asked Venya. - Moreover. "And I want your autograph," Yevtushenko said. "[49] Artyom Badenkov, like Natalya Shmelkova, who was a witness to this meeting, recalls that "Yevtushenko, who did not speak, was very pleased to meet Erofeev. Because one of the speakers touched him in the speech, and he felt out of place. And then suddenly a completely different attitude. " Sister Tamara Erofeev wrote about his impression of Yevtushenko on January 6, 1988: "He really liked me with a rubbed sweater, and a stripped scarf around my neck, and a complete lack of thoughtfulness and theatricality in manners" [50].
