The joint work of the poet Igor Irtenyev and the artist Andrey Bilzho is already the second in their publishing portfolio. The first, "Empire of Good", published in 1994, instantly became a bibliographic rarity. In addition to the thirty-year friendship and ten-year cooperation in the magazine "Zhvanetsky's Shop" (Irtenyev was its editor — in-chief, and Bilzho-the main artist), the authors are united by an ironic, even if each has his own, view of the world that has finally broken down from all conceivable brakes. The fact that Petrovich is a long-standing and permanent hero of the artist, and the Petrovs, absolutely independently of this, have only recently imperiously penetrated the poet's cerebral cortex — is an undoubted sign of fate.Grotesque, black humor, charming idiocy combined with absurdity-all of the above, we hope, will arouse keen interest among readers and viewers at the same time. The authors admit that a powerful impulse for their imagination was the novel by Alexey Salnikov "Petrovs in and around the flu".