Venedikt Erofeev: extraneous

The character of a broom is close to the reader - both Russian and foreign - which cannot be said about the creator of the poem “Moscow - Petushki.”
Oleg Lekmanov, Mikhail Sverdlov and Ilya Simanovsky - authors of the first biography of Venedikt Erofeev (1938 - 1990), Based on the many evidence of contemporaries, documents and memories they collected, they try to separate the truth from myths, to draw a portrait of a person who sought to absolute freedom in prose and life.
In parallel of the history of Venedikt’s life in the book, the “biography” of Venichka unfolds - A detailed analysis of his journey from Moscow to a cockerel captured in the poem.
The book presents previously not published photos and materials from the personal archives of the family and friends of Venedikt Erofeev