About the book: 1924 / Ilya Britan (1885–1942) - poet, publicist of the “first wave” of emigration. It is known that in 1922 Britain was expelled from Russia. Then he ended up in Berlin, where several of his books were published at once. Subsequently, his poetic works received different assessments: K.D. Balmont, for example, spoke about them very sympathetically, but G.V. Adamovich was left “deeply indifferent” by them. It is also curious that for some he was a “Russophile fighter”, and for others a “Jewish poet” (although Christian motives were very strong in the poetry of I. A. Britan). The further fate of I. Britan was tragic. On December 15, 1942, he was shot by the Nazis, along with ninety other hostages, in the courtyard of a barracks in the city of Montrouge on the outskirts of Paris. In his suicide letter to his son, I.A. Britan admitted, in particular, that: “More than anything in the world, I loved you, our unhappy homeland, the music of Rachmaninov. And also... Russian literature, the only one in the world.” This publication is the collection “To God” (Berlin, 1924). Digitizer Andrei Nikitin-Perensky. Library “Second Literature”. The section “Poems from different years” is made up of poems found on the Internet and is not available in the paper edition.