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Venedikt Erofeev was born in the village of Niva-2 (suburb of Kandalaksha). Father – the head of the railway station, repressed and serving a prison sentence in 1939-1954. According to other sources, Venedikt Erofeev’s father voluntarily went north as a settler, on conditions of preferential travel, large lifts, with free housing [the source is not specified 243 days]. After graduating from the railway courses of the Murmansk railway Vasily Vasilyevich Erofeev was appointed on duty at the Poikonda station. Arrested in 1945 [source is not specified 225 days] under article 58-10.
Childhood Venichka spent most of the time in an orphanage in Kirovsk (Kola Peninsula).
He graduated from school with a gold medal. In the mid-1950s – early 1960s he studied first at the philological faculty of Moscow State University, then at the Orekhovo-Zuevsky, Kolomna and Vladimir pedagogical institutes, but from everywhere he was expelled. From 1958 to 1975 he lived without
In his youth, Venedikt was distinguished by his extraordinary erudition and love of the literary word. Even at the age of 17, Vladimir wrote “Notes of a psychopath” (for a long time they were considered lost, first published in 1995). In 1970, Erofeev finished the poem in the prose “Moscow – Petushki”. It was published in the Israeli almanac “Ami” in 1973. In the USSR, the poem was first published in December 1988 – March 1989. in the journal “Sobriety and Culture” (all
In addition to the “Notes of the Psychopath” and “Moscow-Petushkov,” Erofeev wrote the play “Walpurgis Night, or the Steps of the Commander”, the essay “Vasily Rozanov through the Eccentric Eyes” and the genre classification “Good News”, as well as a selection of quotes from Lenin “My Little Leniniana” . The play “Dissidents, or Fanny Kaplan” remained unfinished. After the death of the writer, his notebooks were partially published. In 1992, the magazine “Theater” published Erofeev’s letters to his sister Tamara Gushchina.
According to Erofeev, in 1972 he wrote the novel “Shostakovich”, which he stole in an electric train, along with a string bag, where two bottles of mutter were lying. In 1994, Vladislav Len announced that the manuscript had been lying with him all this time and he would publish it soon. However, only a small fragment of the novel allegedly written by Erofeev was published. Most critics believe this piece is fake. (In the opinion of Vladimir Muravyov, the story with the novel itself was fictitious by Erofeev, who was a big fan of hoaxes.)
In 1985, Venedikt Erofeev was baptized in the Catholic Church, at the only active Catholic church in St. Petersburg at that time in Moscow. Louis of France. The godfather was a friend of Erofeev, philologist Vladimir Muravyov.
In the last years of his life, Erofeev suffered from an incurable disease – throat cancer. The writer died in Moscow on May 11, 1990. He was buried at the Kuntsevo Cemetery. In Moscow, in the square of Borba, a monument was erected to him, a memorial plaque was erected in Vladimir on the building of the pedagogical institute in honor of Erofeev. In Kirovsk in the central city library a museum dedicated to him was created.
Erofeev’s books have been translated into more than 30 languages. About him filmed a documentary Paul Pavlikovsky “Moscow – Petushki” (1989-1991).
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