In this blog post, we’ll explore how the formal ingenuity of this work—which spread through samizdat—and Yerofeyev’s tumultuous life intertwined to create the utopia of Petushki. The Work and First Impressions To most readers, the name Benedict Vasilyevich Yerofeyev (1938–1990) and the title ‘The Train from Moscow to Petushki’ will likely feel somewhat unfamiliar. While Moscow...