About the book: year / October 1917, which ended with the Civil War, in 1920 finally divided the Russian Empire into victorious Reds and losing Whites. Monarchists, anarchists, aristocrats, democrats, guardsmen, Cossacks, literary and artistic celebrities, religious thinkers, and freethinkers urgently left the “Council of Deputies.” The path of exile led many to the capital of France. Among those who settled in the cultural capital of the world, as Paris has long been called, were the colors of Russian culture: Bunin, Kuprin, Merezhkovsky, Gippius, Tsvetaeva, Khodasevich, Teffi, Berdyaev, Ilyin, Korovin, Benois, Chagall, Somov, Sudeikin, Diaghilev with his famous ballet, Chaliapin... In this publication, Alexey Zverev, a famous writer, literary critic, professor of philology, expert on Russian diaspora, depicts on a documentary basis the life of Russian exiles, gives an idea not only of methods of survival, but also of a literary and philosophical understanding of the mission of Russian emigration. “We are not in exile, we are in a message,” Merezhkovsky expressed the general thought (it is no coincidence that the expression is attributed to Gippius, Berberova, and others). The book, written brightly, vividly, objectively, equipped with rare photographs, will undoubtedly interest the reader.