Walter Schubart proclaims the salvation of Europe by Russia and "the birth of Western-Eastern world culture." Schubart's book is a fascinating essay on the national characters of the leading peoples of the world. Although the main thing for the author is the coming transformation of humanity and the saving mission of the "healing Russian soul". "An Englishman looks at the world as a factory, a Frenchman as a salon, a German as a barracks, a Russian as a temple. The Englishman craves prey, the Frenchman — glory, the German — power, the Russian — victims. The Englishman expects benefits from his neighbor, the Frenchman likes him, the German wants to command him. And only the Russian does not want anything." Walter Schubart. "Europe and the soul of the East". The Russian philosopher-emigrant Ivan Ilyin wrote: "... Schubart's book is strikingly different from that Western journalism, where Russians appear as masochistic cowards, lasciviously waiting for shameful punishment." Ilyin believed that in the person of Schubart "we see for the first time" a Western European who kindly "opened his eyes to us", sitting alone at the threshold. "Yes, yes, at the threshold, for we, the wanderers, are not allowed to the hearth." The book "Europe and the Soul of the East" (1938) was included by the German Nazis in the list of "undesirable and harmful literature".