Nina Berberova - poet, prose writer; author of the sensational memoirs “My Italics”, the mysterious biography book “The Iron Woman”, biographies “Tchaikovsky” and “Borodin”. In 1922, she and her husband Vladislav Khodasevich went into exile, where they were supposed to find a new homeland, like hundreds of her compatriots... “Bijankur holidays” is a series of stories, no matter how poignant, just as interesting in documentation, “about people without a language, thrown out to Europe after a military defeat, about the working class of Russian emigration..." "The Last and the First" is actually the first novel dedicated to the life of ordinary Russians in France. "Zoya Andreevna" and "The Lady" are stories from the late 1920s; published in Russia for the first time!