This is the first prose experience of a poet of urban subculture, a kind of predecessor of the rap group “Krovostok”. The author, hiding under the pseudonym Timofey Fryazinsky, came to literature back in the 1990s as a poet and critic. He participated in the first competitions of modern urban poetry “Russian Slam” (he took first place several times), held at the OGI club, and published as a publicist in samizdat, on the website Udaff.com and in the now banned newspaper “Limonka”. The novel is a journey to the second half of the 90s, a semi-documentary story of the life of one of the inhabitants of the District: office work, drugs, criminal adventures and a terrible disease that gives the text a double bottom. The hero - narrator of "Venus of Tuberculosis" explores the forms of "life outside the Moscow Ring Road", describes the life of Suburbia, industrial zones and city outskirts and, following Mayakovsky, looks for hope and humanism "in the squares where tuberculosis is coughing up, where there is a whore with a hooligan and syphilis."