For the first time, a collection of Italian essays by a brilliant and multifaceted writer, a prominent representative of the “second wave” of emigration, the author of the famous testimony about the Solovetsky camp - the book “The Unquenchable Lamp”, written in the “DP” (displaced persons, displaced persons) camps - is being published. Articles, previously scattered in hard-to-find foreign periodicals of the 1950s, are devoted to the fate of Russian refugees through the prism of the culture and history of Italy. This country did not become a safe haven for them, but it could not help but inspire an enlightened, sensitive and ironic literary eyewitness.