Gaito Gazdanov (1903-1971) was a Russian emigrant writer, whom his contemporaries put on a par with V. Nabokov. The action of the novel "An Evening at Claire's" takes place in Paris in the 1920s. Russian emigrant Nikolai meets a charming French woman, Claire, with whom he fell in love back in 1917 in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg. Their dates transport the hero to the world of his lost homeland: a carefree childhood, studies at the gymnasium and the tragic trials of the Civil War. The book also includes the novel "The Ghost of Alexander Wolf", which allowed Gazdanov to leave his job as a taxi driver and start earning literary work.