Boris Poplavsky’s prose is an original and significant phenomenon; contemporaries believed that in it Poplavsky’s talent “was expressed almost more clearly than in poetry” (V. Veidle). Deeply lyrical, it is at the same time thoroughly philosophical and full of drama. The heroes of the novels are Russian emigrants trying to comprehend their fate and find their place on this earth. The text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.