The events described in the book span many countries: Turkey and Bulgaria, Poland and Germany, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia, France, the USA, China. The reader learns about attempts to preserve the White Army abroad; about new tactics of counterrevolution after the defeat in the civil war; about Wrangel’s activities and those of Struve, Milyukov, Savinkov, and other White émigré leaders; about living conditions in exile; about the disintegration of émigré political groups and the collapse of anti-Soviet actions; about the shift in attitudes of a certain part of the émigration and the movement to return to the Motherland.