Petrovich

Andrey Bilzho is a Russian psychiatrist whose long professional career at different “small but cozy” asylums made a very original cartoonist. His weird and often bizarre cartoons are published in “Kommersant Daily” and “Izvestia” newspapers. The cartoons’ protagonist is Petrovich – an ingenuous Russian man who very distantly resembles Dilbert.

This is a WWF ad print that says, “Petrovich, those who meets New Year with black caviar (beluga) will have the whole year painted in black”. This must be a new Russian superstition. Then if you eat red caviar sandwiches at a New Year party then that year will be red for you. Red (красный) in Russian also means “beautiful”. Red Square should be translated in English as Beautiful Square.

Talking about beluga caviar its sales are banned in Europe in 2006. This might save the few Volga white sturgeons from poachers. Don’t eat beluga in 2006!

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