The book is a collection of articles and reviews written in Russian during 2002–2011. and published in Russian-language emigrant publications and online magazines, as well as in the Moscow magazine “New Literary Review” and the Kiev almanac “Egupets”. The “Articles” section contains seven large historical and analytical reviews, among which four are especially worth highlighting: a detailed analysis of the book by the American historian Timothy Snyder “Lands Washed in Blood: Europe between Hitler and Stalin”, as well as the article “Sir Nicholas - the British Otto Schindler ", "Raphael Lemkin - the father of the Convention on the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide" and "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" in America. The muddy river was raging." The “Reviews” section contains twenty reviews covering a wide range of topics in the field of literature and history, among which we can note: “Mara Mustafina. Secrets and mysteries: the work of the people of Harbin”, “Kitchen in our memory: the legacy of the women of Terezin”, “Joseph Horowitz. Artists in Exile: How Refugees from War and Revolution of the 20th Century Transformed the Performing Arts of America", "Elena Krasnoshchekova. A novel of education - Bildungsroman - on Russian soil. Karamzin, Pushkin, Goncharov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky”, ““By the Tunnel”: observations on the poetics of Vladimir Makanin” and “Michel Berdy. The Price of the Russian Word: An Educational and Entertaining Guide to Russian Culture, Language and Translation.” The book is of interest both to a wide Russian-speaking emigrant audience and to readers in modern Russia.