About the book: 2023 / In May 1922, V. I. Lenin proposed replacing the use of the death penalty for those actively opposed to the Soviet regime with deportation abroad : “...All of these are obvious counter-revolutionaries, accomplices of the Entente, an organization of its servants and spies and molesters of student youth. It is necessary to arrange things in such a way that these “military spies” are caught and captured constantly and systematically and sent abroad”... In the autumn of 1922, several huge liners set sail from the shores and took the best people of their era into eternal exile. Among them were Russian philosophers like Berdyaev and Ilyin, and great poets of the Silver Age, like Zinaida Gippius.F. Stepun wrote: “... one winter and one summer coat, one suit, two pieces of all kinds of underwear, two day shirts, two night shirts, two pairs of underpants, two pairs of stockings. Gold items and precious stones, with the exception of wedding rings, were prohibited for export; Even the pectoral crosses had to be removed from the neck. In addition to things, however, it was allowed to take a small amount of currency, if I’m not mistaken, 20 dollars per person; but where can we get it when possession of it was punishable by prison, and in some cases even the death penalty.” How did the fates of these people turn out? What were they thinking about when they left a country that turned out to be of no use? You will learn about all this from the book, which was compiled by the memoirs of philosophers, historians and writers who went into eternal exile on the “philosophical ships”. The publishing layout is saved in a4.pdf format.