Nowadays, recently “arrested” books are returning to the reader, and the works and fates of unknown foreign compatriot writers who lived and wrote in exile are becoming increasingly interesting. These can fully include the work of the Russian writer, journalist Nikolai Nikolaevich Breshko-Breshkovsky (1874–1943), whose works are acquiring significant social value in our time. Being a correspondent for a weekly emigrant publication in Paris, N.N. Breshko-Breshkovsky, under various pseudonyms, ran the “Paris Lights” chronicle department. The essays published in it found their place on the pages of this collection. Articles-memoirs paint portraits of people in the world of literature and art: L.N. Tolstoy, Teffi, Mark Aldanov, V.V. Vereshchagin and many others.