Mark Aldanov. Writer, public figure and gentleman of Russian emigration

The reader’s attention is proposed to the first detailed biography of Mark Aldanov-the most popular writer of Russian abroad, a prominent socio-political figure in the emigration of the “first wave”. Aldanov’s fiction is the pinnacle of the Russian historiosophical novel of the twentieth century, and his life is a rare example of spiritual nobility, fundamentalness and free thought. The book is written on the basis of a large number of documentary sources, including previously unknown archival materials. In addition to information relating to Aldanov’s biography directly, it discusses the basic worldview representations of Aldanov-Logger, and systematized information about the reception of the writer"s image is given by his contemporaries