Venedikt Yerofeyev’s Creative Freedom and What He Paid for It

Venedikt Yerofeyev was an incredibly talented person. Unfortunately, his fate was very sad. We all know him from the legendary poem “Moscow-Petushki”. By the way, in Moscow, this piece of the poet’s work was installed a monument in its time!

Venedikt Yerofeev Venechka was born in the Murmansk region, family. In the wartime Soviet times, the fate of the Erofeevs was not sweet. First, the authorities took the grandfather of the future poet for an extremely frivolous reason: the man refused to put his horse in the carriage of some officer. Weni's father was then arrested for allegedly wrecking.



Instagram / @publ_60 The family had five children, so the boy’s childhood was very hungry and cold. The child learned to read and write very early. By the age of 6, he was already writing something like a diary. Money in the family was very little and the mother was forced to give the young children to an orphanage. A couple of years later, his father was released and the family recovered. Unfortunately, not for long: Erofeev senior lived only a couple of years.



Instagram / @publ_60 Gold medalist Venya Erofeev entered the Faculty of Philology. For systematic absenteeism was expelled, but managed to get acquainted with literary critic Vladimir Muravyov. Afterwards, he will return to the Filfactory, but he will be expelled again. After the second attempt to get a higher education, Yerofeyev tried to get a job.



Instagram / @thebestdariaeverUnfortunately, the discipline constantly failed the young talented writer, who already in his youth managed to release a literary almanac. The author has released 5 full-fledged works. Among them are "Notes of a Psychopath", the story "Good News" and poem "Moscow-Petushki". Quotes from the latter firmly entered the popular conversation.



Instagram / @azbooka_inostranka Interestingly, the poem became incredibly popular, although the author wrote it for friends. He wrote poems to laugh in good company. In the end, the whole Union became a good company. Unfortunately, for the first time the poem was published not in the author’s home country, but in Israel.

The personal life of Venedikt Yerofeyev Women in the life of Venechka Yerofeyev was a lot. The love of his life can be called Julia RunovaWith whom Benedict then terminated, then resumed relations. It lasted until the end of the poet’s life. In addition to Yuli, Erofeev had a huge number of short-term novels.



Valentina Zimakova gave birth to a son Erofeev in 1966, after which the poet signed with a woman. Unfortunately, the marriage did not last long. Most of Erofeev's relationships ended because of predilection. This tendency was passed on to the writer from his father. For a long time, Venya did not drink, but after he began, he could not stop.

Benedict tried to be cured, but the green snake took its course. Alcohol and cigarettes were Erofeev’s favorite weaknesses. They stripped that throat. Italian experts even built for the writer microphone. The doctors promised to return the voice, but unfortunately, nothing happened. For this reason, Erofeev began to have depression. In 1990, a great talent passed from our world to another.



Instagram / @ale.nazarov.52 Reading the biography of Erofeev becomes insanely sad. He was a man with a deep soul filled with some incredible philosophical beauty. It is a pity that his life has been so difficult.

One must honor, I repeat, the darkness of another’s soul, one must look into them, even if there is nothing there, let there be rubbish alone – all the same: look and read, look and do not spit.