About the book: 2014 / At the famous Russian cemetery of Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois near Paris, priests and courtiers, former ministers and beautiful ballerinas rested, great princes and terrorists, artists and white generals, famous war heroes and agents of the GPU, ladies-in-waiting and dressmakers, movie stars and theater directors, former bosom friends and mortal enemies... Some of them met the advent of the 20th century at the height of their Russian glory, others then have not yet been born. Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Zinaida Gippius, Ivan Bunin, Matilda Kshesinskaya, Sheremetevs and Yusupovs, General Kutepov, Father Sergius Bulgakov, Alexey Remizov, Teffi, Boris Zaitsev, Serge Lifar, Zinaida Serebryakova, Alexander Galich, Andrei Tarkovsky, Vladimir Maximov, Zinaida Shakhovskaya, Rudolf Nuriev...Fate brought them together under the birches of this island of bygone Russia in France, in the graveyard of the last century. On the pages of Boris Nosik’s fascinating book, many names of great and unknown people come to life with their sorrows and joys, the intricacies of destinies.…