Official structures of Russia began to pursue Vitaly Peskov's family and his drawings (including political cartoons as his widow considers) were destroyed.
Also, Irina (along with her son, Viktor Korshikov (1983–2006) received numerous threats and emigrated to the United States soon after.
One month after Peskov's death, an exhibition of three hundred cartoons was organized by Leonid Tishkov in his private gallery in Moscow.
She would later hold two exhibitions of her husband's cartoons in New York (2004 and 2005), created a commemorative website (www.peskov.org) and published a biography, To Vitaly from Irina.
In relation to this, Viktor Korshikov, a musical critic and writer and an author of various articles on the history of opera, committed suicide.