Mikhail Osorgin’s first novel “Sivtsev Vrazhek” was published in 1928, far from his homeland - the writer and famous journalist was 50 years old at that time. The work embodied the writer’s large-scale plan - a story about the fall of the old way of life, the tragedy of the Old Moscow intelligentsia, who suffered from the First World War and the 1917 revolution. Osorgin is a worthy successor to the traditions of Russian classics and permeates the entire novel with aching melancholy and soulful lyricism, so characteristic of emigrant writers.