In 1958, in Buenos Aires, at the expense of an author unknown in the literary world, the historical novel “The Label of the Great Khan” was published in a thousand copies, telling about the brutal civil strife of the Russian princes during the time of the Tatar-Mongol yoke, the victim of which became the young prince Vasily Karachevsky. However, few of the readers, mainly fellow countrymen, could remember that Karateev had already been published as an essayist and published documentary books about the fate of Russian emigrants in the Balkans and South America. Argentina (note, like the entire subcontinent) was considered, and probably not without reason, a kind of cultural province of the Russian diaspora. Although, as a result of the Second World War, at least two waves of repeated emigration - from China and the Balkans (with their centers in Harbin and Belgrade) - spilled out widely, from Australia to South America, Russian Paris still remained the literary capital (though noticeably weakened) and Russian New York (largely strengthened at his expense). Therefore, it was surprising that M. Karateev’s novel appeared in distant Buenos Aires, which evoked enthusiastic responses from critics and readers in those Russian diasporas where it could have ended up given the modest circulation...