Venedikt Erofeev is a bright and ambiguous phenomenon in Russian literature. His famous poem "Moscow—Petushki," written in 1970, is a sort of philosophical parable, a work beyond time, for Erofeev created in the book his own world, his own universe, in which the center is the human being, "the human being as a meeting place of all planes of existence." First appearing in the pages of the magazine "Sobriety and Culture," the poem "Moscow—Petushki" became a true revelation for readers and was later translated into many languages of the world.