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Na rubezhe vekov Parizh byl izlyublennym mestom otdyha russkih aristokratov, trativshih v mestnyh restoranah i kabare basnoslovnye summy. No vsego cherez paru desyatiletiy on stal ubezhishchem dlya desyatkov tysyach russkih, — i odnovremenno gorodom-proklyatiem, gde oni stradali ot nishchety i toski po Rossii. Potomstvennye knyaz'ya i proslavlennye generaly stanovilis' taksistami, rabochimi na zavodah Sitroena i Reno, a to i vovse dvornikami i moyshchikami posudy. A ih zheny — modelyami i shveyami. Nesmotrya na vse tyagoty, russkaya kul'tura cvela dazhe v Parizhe — ruchnaya vyshivka talantlivyh aristokratok nashla svoyu dorogu k modnomu domu SHanel', na celoe desyatiletie vvedya v modu «russkiy stil'». Gremeli imena Dyagileva, SHagala, Stravinskogo i Bunina; sozdavalas' russkaya pressa, shkoly, profsoyuzy i doma prizreniya. No daleko ne vsem emigrantam udavalos' vlit'sya vo francuzskoe obshchestvo: odni zakonchili zhizn' v nishchete, a nekotorye pali zhertvoy chekistskih verbovok... Napisannaya na osnove soten arhivnyh istochnikov, kniga istorika Helen Rappaport — eto krasochnyy reportazh iz proshlogo, rasskazyvayushchiy tragicheskuyu istoriyu russkoy emigracii ustami ee ochevidcev.