Under the cover of this book was a narrative woven from the stories of participants and eyewitnesses of the musical history of the St. Petersburg group "Picnic." The events to be discussed begin in the late seventies, develop rapidly in the eighties, freeze in uncertainty in the nineties, gain momentum again in the early 2000s and continue to this day. The book uses copyright materials from Sergey Gortsev, Andrey Burlaki, Mikhail Margolis, Alexander Kushnir.