A talented representative of Russian literature abroad, Mikhail Osorgin (1878–1942), like many Russian people of his generation, went through suffering, temptations, stood the test of war, revolution, politics, and in the wilds and temptations of the teachings, trends and trends of the 20th century, he found his own path. The hero of Osorgin’s story “The Freemason”, published in Paris in 1937, Egor Egorovich Tetyokhin, also follows his own path. Tetyokhin is a truly Russian soul, the embodiment of the best national qualities, a quiet hero, a fighter against evil, a support for the weak and oppressed. A serious layer of the story is an artistic and philosophical understanding of Freemasonry. The book also includes stories written by Osorgin in exile.