The famous Russian cemetery of Saint-Genevieve-de-Bois, near Paris, was the resting place of priests and courtiers, former Ministers and beautiful ballerinas, Grand Dukes and terrorists, artists and white generals, famous war heroes and agents of the GPU, ladies-in-waiting of the court and dressmakers, movie stars and theater Directors, former cronies and mortal enemies...Some of them met the arrival of the XX century in the heyday of their Russian glory, while others were not yet born. Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Zinaida Gippius, Ivan Bunin, Matilda Kshesinskaya, the Sheremetevs and Yusupovs, General Kutepov, father Sergiy Bulgakov, Alexey Remizov, taffy, Boris Zaitsev, Serge Lifar, Zinaida Serebryakova, Alexander Galich, Andrey Tarkovsky, Vladimir Maksimov, Zinaida Shakhovskaya, Rudolf Nureyev...Fate brought them together under the birch trees of this island of bygone Russia in France, in the churchyard of the last century. On the pages of Boris Nosik's fascinating book, many names of the great and unknown come to life with their sorrows and joys, the intricacies of fate...