Back in the 1980s, the philologist-Slavist Svetlana Shnitman-McMillin wrote the first major academic study of "Moscow - Petushkov". Approved by Venedikt Yerofeyev himself, this work remained fundamental for philologists for a long time — but at the same time it was also inaccessible. The new edition of the book corrects this situation. Schnitman-McMillin does not just offer a commentary on the work: her book is a deep study of the intertext, explaining the rightful place of Yerofeyev's poem among the world classics. The work is published within the framework of the project "Non-Canonical classic" (part of the book series "UFO" "Scientific Library"), the fruit of which has already become collections of articles and materials dedicated to D. A. Prigov, V. Sorokin, V. Sharov and the Lianozov school. Svetlana Shnitman-McMillin - PhD, Professor at the Higher School of Slavic Studies and Eastern Europe, University of London.