This volume of the almanac publishes memoirs of journalist M.N. Semenov, written in Italy; essay on the prominent Soviet "defector" S. V. Dmitrievsky, adviser to the embassy in Sweden; a thorough study of Russian foreign filmmaking of the 1920s; letters from the editor of the Berlin "New Word" Vladimir Despotuli to Alexander Burov, as well as the last letters of N. I. Petrovskaya to V. Khodasevich and Don Aminado; the history of church life and the clergy of the 15th Cossack cavalry corps in Yugoslavia; bibliographic index of Dipian books and brochures and a number of other materials. A significant part of the volume is occupied by the publication of the 1948 police report "La colonie russe de Paris" ("Russian Colony in Paris"), which includes an analytical review of various ideological, political, cultural and religious movements that developed in the Russian diaspora during the interwar period.