This book, dedicated to Russian emigrant and Soviet literature, is a continuation of the collection of articles "Odvukon," published in New York in 1973. Why exactly this name was given to the book, its author - writer and publicist, a prominent figure in the Russian diaspora Roman Borisovich Gul (1896-1986), explained in the Preface to the first book, using Dahl's famous explanatory dictionary: "To ride a two-horse or a two-horse, on horseback, with a henchman or a spare horse...."