About the book: 2016 / A new expanded collection of Italian essays is published by the most famous writer of the “second wave” of emigration, famous for his book-testimony about Solovetsky camp “The Unquenchable Lamp”, written by him in Italy in camps for displaced persons, “DP”. Italy did not become a reliable refuge for B. N. Shiryaev, but it could not help but inspire a sensitive, enlightened and ironic writer. Of particular interest to him was the Russian church abroad, including the unique center of Orthodoxy - the monumental church in Bari.