Yerofeyevʼs essay on Vasili Rozanov titled «Vasili Rozanov through eyes of an Eccentric» is a realization of the narrative strategy, revealed in a poem in prose «Moskva – Petushki». The author of the article focuses on the literary creating pro­cess which depicts the formation of the character and the narrator at the same time. He concentrates on the interaction of the position of the author and the protagonist. The author of the article makes an attempt to describe the nature of essay as a genre in lite­rature, and the place it takes in the literary works of Yerofeyev.