This book is about the life and work of the unique and mysterious writer Venedikt Yerofeyev. Individual phrases from his poem "Moscow-Petushki" instantly became widely used as wise sayings and aphorisms. Therefore, it is not surprising that he is often identified with his hero Venichka. Alexander Senkevich, a writer and scientist, spoke convincingly about the spiritual impact on Venedikt Yerofeyev of both Christianity and Buddhism in its modern interpretation. At the same time, he restored the historical and social context in which the writer lived and worked. The author of the poem "Moscow-Petushki" and the tragedy "Walpurgis Night, or the Steps of the Commander" appears to the reader as one of many from the generation of the 1960s, to which Alexander Senkevich also belongs. Venedikt Yerofeyev was a free-thinking man, and in terms of the strength of feelings he was not inferior to the classic writers of the XX century. "Venedikt Yerofeyev: A Man from Nowhere" completes the trilogy of philosophical biographies of Alexander Senkevich, whose previous books were "Buddha" and "Blavatsky", published in the series"ZHZL".