As you know, Odessa residents can be scattered and concentrated. The concentrated ones live in their hometown, and the scattered ones cover the globe with a thin layer, bringing the glory of Odessa and love for it to its most remote corners. And if many people write about concentrated Odessa residents, almost no one writes about scattered ones. The new book by Odessa writer and cultural critic Evgeniy Demenka is just about them - about those who were born, studied, worked in Odessa, and then made a name for themselves in other cities and countries. Sonia Delaunay and Vladimir Baranov-Rossine, David Burliuk and Alexey Kruchenykh, Mikhail Vrubel and Leonid Pasternak, Georgy Florovsky and Nikodim Kondakov... The author reveals new, previously unknown or already forgotten details of their biographies; returns to Odessa the names of Lev Magerovsky and Pericles Stavrov, Israel Litvak and Nikolai Dzevanovsky. The cultural and biographical studies of Evgeniy Demenok read like a fascinating, exciting detective story.