Babicheva, M. (2020). Exiled, they wrote about their motherland: Prose by second-wave Russian émigrés: Biobibliographical essays. Moscow: Pashkov dom. (In Russ.)

Abstract

The review sets out to critically examine the book by M. Babicheva and single out its defining characteristics. Printed in the Book Universe [‘Knizhnaya vselennaya’] series, the collection in question consists of biobibliographical essays on the works penned by writers of the second-wave Russian emigration. The book is divided into seventeen chapters devoted to the life and work of such authors as V. Alekseev, G. Andreev, G. Klimov, F. Kubansky, S. Maksimov, N. Narokov, L. RzhevskyV. Samarin, V. Sven, M. Solovyov, N. Troitsky, Ulyanov, T. Fesenko, B. Shiryaev, V. Yurasov et al. Each essay summarises the author’s biography and supplies a bibliography listing the émigré’s works of fiction, journalistic and critical output, as well as literature dedicated to their life and work. The book helps to complete the dismal portrayal of the 20th-c. history, particularly World War II and Stalinist repressions, the two major causes of the second wave of Russian emigration.