Moscow Stations, Venedikt Yerofeev's autobiographical novel, is in many ways the successor to Gogol's
Dead Souls. The two works are comic historical bookends, with Gogol's novel portraying the sloth and corruption of feudal Russia and Yerofeev's novel portraying the sloth and corruption of feudal Communism. The truth is that while the streets of Moscow may be clogged with Volvos and Mercedes sedans these days - in keeping with the new capitalism - the anguish and dissipation of the late, coruscating empire are still the real fact of life for most people.
Moscow Stations remains a lesson in the current events of the Russian soul.
The novel is a mixture of high, drunken comedy - a portrait of a soul filled with wisdom and pickled in Hunter's vodka who spends his days traipsing around Moscow but has never once seen the Kremlin. With this cheerful admission we are off on a hallucinatory ride through the increasingly desperate mind of Venedikt Yerofeev. He once remarked that
Moscow Stations was 'ninety pages of funny stuff and ten pages of sad stuff' but it is mostly about a clear-eyed man who can still say, no matter how much he has drunk: 'I, who have consumed so much that I've lost track of how much, and in what order - I'm the soberest man in the world.'

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- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword by Charlotte Hobson
- Translator’s Foreword
- Preface
- Moscow. On the Way to Kursk Station
- Moscow. Kursk Station Square
- Moscow. Kursk Station Buffet
- Moscow. To the Train via the Off-Licence
- Moscow to Hammer and Sickle
- Hammer and Sickle to Karacharovo
- Karacharovo to Chukhlinka
- Chukhlinka to Kuskovo
- Kuskovo to Novogireyevo
- Novogireyevo to Reutovo
- Reutovo to Nikolskoe
- Nikolskoe to Saltykovskaya
- Saltykovskaya to Kuchino
- Kuchino to Zheleznodorozhnaya
- Zheleznodorozhnaya to Chernoe
- Chernoe to Kupavna
- Kupavna to Kilometre 33
- Kilometre 33 to Elektrougli
- Elektrougli to Kilometre 43
- Kilometre 43 to Khrapunovo
- Khrapunovo to Yesino
- Yesino to Fryazevo
- Fryazevo to Kilometre 61
- Kilometre 61 to Kilometre 65
- Kilometre 65 to Pavlovo-Posad
- Pavlovo-Posad to Nazaryevo
- Nazaryevo to Drezna
- Drezna to Kilometre 85
- Kilometre 85 to Orekhovo-Zuevo
- Orekhovo-Zuevo
- Orekhovo-Zuevo to Krutoe
- Krutoe to Voinovo
- Voinovo to Usad
- Usad to 105th Kilometre
- 105th Kilometre to Pokrov
- Pokrov to 113th Kilometre
- 113th Kilometre to Omutishche
- Omutishche to Leonovo
- Leonovo to Petushki
- Petushki. The Platform
- Petushki. Station Square
- Petushki. The Sadovy Ring Road
- Petushki. The Kremlin. Monument to Minin and Pozharsky
- Moscow. Petushki. An Unidentified Entry
- About the Author
- Copyright
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