This volume of the almanac publishes notes by B.S. Kolokolov about childhood spent in the Chinese province; memoirs of the artist A.M. Arnstam about work in Berlin and Paris in the 1920s-1940s; an article dedicated to the first Soviet defectors and their activities in the emigrant environment; the history of the Russian Orthodox monastic brotherhood that existed in 1923-1946 on the territory of Slovakia; letters from G.V. Adamovich, N.V. Volsky, K.E. von Replacement; transcript of audio recording of V.V. Shulgin's stories; essays by R. Kufferle about Russian writers and artists in exile; a study on the participation of Russian emigrants in world cinema and a number of other materials.