Konstantin Erastov (1939–1996) was a Soviet intellectual, linguist and translator primarily known for his Moscow salon, a center for dissident life and independent arts.
Erastov's mother, Zinaida Zhitomirskaya, was a native of Dnipro, Ukraine, and a member of the Zhitomirsky family, a Jewish "dynasty of academics" from Taganrog.
[4][5] In the 1960s and 1970s, Konstantin Erastov, his first wife Tatiana Tankhilevich (Milman) and their seven children lived in a historic building on Bolshoy Gnezdnikovsky Lane in downtown Moscow.
The Erastovs' house has been featured in several tourist guides and local history books as an unusually late example of salon culture which was largely wiped out by the Bolsheviks.
[6][7] A detailed description of the Erastovs' house and its notable frequenters such as the Soviet human rights activist and political prisoner Victor Krasin was written by the Russian linguist Georgy Lesskis.