For a decade, conducting a lively correspondence, the two poets discuss literary news, exchange opinions on the work of their colleagues, analyze their own and other people’s poems in detail, and even start a small war against the dominance of the “Parisians” in the emigrant literary world. The magazine “Experiments”, “New Journal”, “Grani”, the publishing house “Rhyme”, numerous Russian newspapers... A detailed commentary complements the picture of the intense literary life of the Russian diaspora in the post-war years. From the book: “If a miracle is at all possible abroad...”: Epoch 1950s in the correspondence of Russian emigrant writers. M., 2008. P. 97–202.