![]() ![]() During the trip, the hero recounts some of the fantastic escapades he participated in, including declaring war on Norway, and charting the drinking habits of his colleagues when leader of a cable laying crew. It is an account of a journey from Moscow to Petushki (Vladimir Oblast) by train, a journey soaked in alcohol. It’s a grotesque story of a foreman of a cable-laying crew who had just been fired from his job because of the abuse of alcohol by his entire team. Yerofeyev is best known for his 1969 poem in prose Moscow-Petushki (several English translations exist, including Moscow to the End of the Line and Moscow Stations). Moscow to the End of the Line by Venedikt Erofeev If you wish to see what life in the late Soviet Union must have been like, Moscow to the End of the Line is the resource to turn to. ![]() ![]() Later he studied in several more institutes in different towns including Kolomna and Vladimir but he has never managed to graduate from any, usually being expelled due to his "amoral behaviour" (freethinking).īetween 19 Yerofeyev lived without propiska in towns in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania, also spending some time in Uzbekistan and Tadjikistan, doing different low-qualified and underpaid jobs. He managed to enter the philology department of the Moscow State University but was expelled from the University after a year and a half because he did not attend compulsory military training. ![]()
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