Emigration, shadow by the fire

Emigration is an old phenomenon, having experienced its peak of romanticism during the First World War and heavily romanticized thanks to Vasily Kandinsky, Ivan Bunin, and Fyodor Shalyapin.

People do not leave their homeland without reason — it is a tremendous trial for character, a certain break and shift of fate, a challenge that a person throws to both themselves and the world. The greatest artists of the early 20th century and modernity have gone through emigration, including Dina Rubina, whose creativity has become an undeniable tuning fork of Russian literature at the end of the century.

In this book, the author has specially gathered stories that are connected in one way or another with the theme of finding new land and renouncing the old land. They contain humor, sadness, irony, and compassion that embraces everyone who has just experienced this or who is about to.

The experience of emigration cannot be universal, and at the same time, it — passed down from a great artist — has the property of helping and supporting.

It is precisely for this reason that this book was conceived.