"Moscow-Petushki", "- And Modest Mussorgsky ..."

Illustration for the poem "Moscow-Petushki" by Venedikt Erofeev.
"Esino - Fryazevo.
- And Modest Mussorgsky! My God, and Modest Mussorgsky! Do you know how he wrote his immortal opera Khovanshchina? This is laughter and sorrow. Modest Mussorgsky lies in a ditch with a drink, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov walks by, in a tuxedo and with a bamboo cane. Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov will stop, tickle Modest with his cane and say: "Get up! Go wash and sit down to finish writing your divine opera" Khovanshchina ".