Igor Efimov and his wife Marina emigrated to America in 1978. There they created the Hermitage Publishing House, which existed for 27 years and published such authors as Aksyonov and Averintsev, Bitov and Brodsky, Weil and Genis, Galich and Grekova, Guberman and Dovlatov, Lev Losev and Anatoly Naiman, Evgeniy Rein and Lyudmila Stern.Za thirty-three years of life in the New World, Igor Efimov wrote eight novels, among which are “Archives of the Last Judgment”, “The Seventh Wife”, “Court and Case”, “Infidel”, “Novgorod Interpreter”, “The Emperor’s Bride” and others. From his pen also came the historical and philosophical studies “The Shameful Secret of Inequality”, “The Coming Attila”, “Who Killed President Kennedy”. All of his books after the fall of communism were republished in Russia. The second volume of his memoirs “A Link of Times. In the New World" presents a detailed description of the life of Russian literary emigration at the end of the 20th century.