Editing Eduard Limonov (section)

=== Early life ===
Eduard Veniaminovič Savenko was born on the 22nd February 1943 in Dzeržinsk, Russia. Eduard's father is Veniamin, a low-ranking NKVD officer and his mother is Raisa. During his childhood, Eduard grows up among the city thugs. In the immediate post-war period, he spent a turbulent adolescence in the outskirts of Kharkov, frequenting street gangs, drinking heavily, and becoming involved in petty crimes that did not cost him prison only for a series of lucky coincidences. After a violent fight with an opposing group, he is arrested with the aggravating circumstance of having wounded a policeman with a knife, and this would cost him years to serve in a penal colony. However, the commissioner was his father's comrade and silences the investigation.

He starts writing poetry and wants to become a great poet. He starts working as a smelter in a factory and his modest and routine life seems to frustrate his aspirations. One night, seized by desperation, he cuts his wrist at the kitchen table at home and passes out. The next day he wakes up in a psychiatric hospital where he will stay in drug treatment for two months, until an old doctor helps him out and find a job.

In fact, he travels the city as a book peddler. During this period of his life, he discovers the central Bookshelf 41 which is the haunt of the official and underground artists. With renewed enthusiasm for poetry, he begins to frequent the environment. After closing in the evening, the creatives move to the apartment of Anna, a Jewish woman older than him, suffering from mental disorders, the bookstore's prime contractor. The young man sees in the relationship with her a useful tool for emancipation from the gray suburb where he lives with her parents and thus settles himself. In the apartment where he lives with his partner and her elderly mother, in addition to making acquaintances and getting noticed as a poet, he learns to sew and begins to make clothes on commission. However, he fails to fulfill his aspirations, so he decides to leave the city along his girlfriend Anna.