The “third wave” of Russian emigration has been generous in gifts brought to the other shore – poets and writers, thinkers and scholars. Nor do they come empty-handed: their baggage, whether in forms of manuscript or memory, is rich and heavy, as this volume well testifies...

A tenth-century bookseller from Baghdad recorded information on books by earlier and contemporary authors, including poets. In many cases his work is the only existing source about those authors and their poetical collections, since various calamities have destroyed all other traces...