Both participants in the published correspondence are well-known people. Journalist, memoirist and public figure Mark Veniaminovich Vishnyak (1883–1976) gained greatest fame as one of the co-editors of the famous “Modern Notes” (Paris, 1920–1940). The critic, literary critic and poet Vladimir Fedorovich Markov (1920–2013) was 37 years younger and belonged to a different generation in every sense of the word and even to a different wave of emigration. Despite all the notoriety, it would be difficult to find more different people. By the time the correspondence began, Markov was half Vishnyak’s age, the first was 34 years old, and the second was over 70. But it’s not even a matter of age. Vishniac had been a socially inclined person all his life, which Markov immediately began to make fun of, having never played these games and remaining an individualist. It is not surprising that they immediately began to argue with each other on almost all points. It is not surprising that the correspondence was not destined to become long-term. It is rather surprising that correspondence began at all between such different people. To begin with, everyone tried to win their opponent over to their side, then, realizing the hopelessness of this, they tried to at least explain themselves and clearly state their own positions. When this also failed, they began to tease each other and catch each other using incorrect words, and soon the correspondence naturally broke off. But the surviving letters are very indicative of the moods of two types of people in literature. At least, they reveal the entire abyss of misunderstanding very convincingly.