This collection includes selected stories by Alla Sergeevna Golovina (1909-1987), a poetess and prose writer of the “first wave” of emigration. And also her selected letters to the participants of the Prague literary association "Skeet" Alfred Bem and Vadim Morkovin. Alla Golovina's prose - lyrical short stories and stories from the life of emigration. It is characterized by plot fragmentation, attention to psychological detail, dramatization of the episode, and a tendency towards the tale form of presentation. This collection is based on texts from two books: 1. Alla Golovina. Villa "Nadezhda" Poetry. Stories. "Contemporary". 1992. pp. 152-363.2. Poets of the Prague Skete. Rostock. M., 2007. pp. 293-299, 362-393, 431-448.