page_title: Moscow-Petushki
section_title: Monument
hierarchical_section_title: Moscow-Petushki / Monument
caption_attribution_description: English: Monument to Moscow-Petushki by Venedikt Yerofeev installed in Borby Square, Moscow. Sculptors Valery Kuznetsov, Sergei Mantserev. Русский: Памятник «Москва-Петушки» по произведению Венедикта Ерофеева установлен в сквере на площади Борьбы в Москве. Скульпторы Валерий Кузнецов, Сергей Манцерев.
context_page_description: Moscow-Petushki, also published as Moscow to the End of the Line, Moscow Stations, and Moscow Circles, is a pseudo-autobiographical postmodernist prose poem by Russian writer and satirist Venedikt Yerofeyev.
  Written between 1969 and 1970 and passed around in samizdat, it was first published in 1973 in Israel and later, in 1977, in Paris.
  It was published in the Soviet Union only in 1989, during the perestroika era of Soviet history, in the literary almanac Vest' and in the magazine Abstinence and Culture in a slightly abridged form.
  The story follows an alcoholic intellectual, Venya, as he travels by a suburban train on a 125 km journey from Moscow along the Gorkovsky suburban railway line to visit his beautiful beloved and his child in Petushki, a town that is described by the narrator in almost utopian terms.
  At the start of the story, he has just been fired from his job as foreman of a telephone cable-laying crew for drawing charts of the amount of alcohol he and his colleagues were consuming over time. These graphs showed a clear correlation with personal characters.
context_section_description: There is a monument for the novel in the Borby Square, Moscow, by the artists Valery Kuznetsov and Sergei Mantserev, consisting of two sculptures. One shows a man clinging to the train station sign Moscow and the sentence "You cannot trust an opinion of a person who hasn't yet got some hair of the dog" written on the pedestal. The other one shows a young woman under the train station sign Petushki and the sentence "In Petushki the jasmine never stops blooming and the birds always sing".
caption: Monument in Moscow, right side
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