The names of the geniuses of Russian literature Ivan Bunin and Vladimir Nabokov are connected for us by language and era, the scale of talent, life and creativity in exile. But there is another, personal connection between these writers. In the new book of the Russian-American writer Maxim D. Schraer, the exciting plot of the long-term and complex relationship between Bunin and Nabokov unfolds against the background of the history of Russian emigration from the 1920s to the 1970s. How are literary legends formed?