The book, based on linguistic stylistic analysis, taking into account the semantics of the compositional structure of texts, proposes an interpretation of the works of the leading authors of the Russian diaspora of the first wave (20s - early 30s): I. A. Bunin, B. B. Nabokova, G. Ivanova, Gaito Gazdanova, B. Yu. Poplavsky and others. Each section of the book is devoted to the work of an individual writer and includes an analysis of the text, a system of questions for it. Questions can be used by the teacher when working in the classroom with these texts or (and) students for self-control.