Venichka Erofeev (Venya), cultured alcoholic, self-mocking intellectual, regales us with an account of his heroic’ odyssey from Moscow to provincial Petushki. Stories of his rich, turbulent inner life
Walpurgis Night, by acclaimed Russian writer Venedikt Erofeev, is considered a classic in the playwright’s homeland. Erofeev’s dark and funny five-act satire of Soviet repression has been called the c
In this classic of Russian humor and social commentary, a fired cable fitter goes on a binge and hopes a train to Petushki (where his "most beloved of trollops" awaits). On the way he bestows upon ang
