15 December 1998 Take the A-train: Despite economic woes, Russia still honors its writers. Fans of the late Venedikt Yerofeev’s Moskva-Petushki (Moscow Stations) celebrated the 60th anniversary of the author’s 28 October birthday with a month of events, culminating in a recreation of the drunken train journey from Moscow to Petushki described in Yerofeev’s 1969 samizdat masterpiece. Some 1,500 writers, […]
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