Venedikt Erofeev (Венедикт Ерофеев), (October 24, 1938—May 11, 1990), was a Russian writer. October 24 is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 68 days remaining. ... 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... May 11 is the 131st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (132nd in leap years). ... This article is about the year. ...

He is best known for his 1969 poem in prose Moscow-Petushki (translated to English as Moscow to the End of the Line). Moscow-Petushki, or Moscow to the End of the Line, is a semi-autobiographical postmodernist prose poem by Russian writer and satirist Venedikt Erofeev (Венедикт Ерофеев). Written between 1969 and 1970 and passed around in samizdat, it was first published in 1973 in Israel and later, in 1977, in Paris. ...

Of note is his smaller 1988 work, My Petite Leniniana (My Little Leniniana, Моя маленькая лениниана, Moya malenkaya Leniniana), which is basically a collection of quotations from Lenin's works, which show Vladimir Ilyich from a rather ugly side. Sufficient to mention that Erofeev's Leniniana made widely known Lenin's remark (in his letter to Maksim Gorky, 1919) that intelligentsia is not brain of the nation, but shit of the nation. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin ( Russian: Влади́мир Ильи́ч Ле́нин  listen?), original surname Ulyanov (Улья́нов) ( April 22 (April 10 ( O.S.)), 1870 – January 21, 1924), was a Russian revolutionary, the leader of the Bolshevik party, the first Premier of the Soviet Union, and the founder of the ideology of Leninism. ... Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov (In Russian Алексей Максимович Пешков) (March 28; March 16 Old Style, 1868–June 14, 1936), better known as Maxim Gorky (Максим Горький), was a Soviet/Russian author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist. ... The intelligentsia (from Latin: intelligentia) is a social class of people engaged in complex mental and creative labor directed to the development and dissemination of culture: intellectuals and social groups close to them (e. ... Comparative brain sizes In animals, the brain, or encephalon ( Greek for in the head), acts as the control center of the central nervous system. ... Shit is a vernacular word in Modern English denoting feces, the byproduct of digestion. ...

Eroveev died of throat cancer. When normal cells are damaged beyond repair, they are eliminated by apoptosis. ...