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Probably, there is no sadder story in the world than the story of the life of the Russian emigration, and above all of its "first wave". Washed with bloody tears, her best sons and daughters parted from Russia after the revolution and the civil war. Many of them met in a foreign land not favor and dollar handouts (stored, as it turned out later, for people of a slightly different warehouse, not so committed to the Fatherland), but need and indifference. The book offered to the reader (in a reprint version), published in New York in 1956, based on rich factual material, with the involvement of diverse documentary evidence, tells about political movements and organizations in the emigrant environment, shows painful ideological searches, a high and often tragic proportion of thousands and thousands of representatives of the Russian emigration of the "first wave", its descendants. Many of them gave their lives in the fight against Hitler's fascism and Stalin's totalitarianism, became victims of NKVD provocations, and perished in concentration camps.