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The names of the geniuses of Russian literature, Ivan Bunin and Vladimir Nabokov, are united for us by language and era, the scale of talent, life and work in exile. But there is another, personal connection between these writers. In a new book by Russian-American writer Maxim D. Schraer, the gripping plot of the long-standing and complex relationship between Bunin and Nabokov unfolds against the backdrop of the history of Russian emigration from the 1920s to the 1970s. How are literary legends formed? What was behind the rivalry between the two geniuses and how did this rivalry affect modern Russian culture?