The book is devoted to the theory and practice of the literary pseudonym, focusing on the existence of this phenomenon within the literature of Russian abroad. The collection includes articles by scientists from Russia, Germany, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Italy, Israel, Czech Republic, Georgia and Bulgaria. In the works studied and pseudonymous cryptonemia the repertoire of a number of writers of the first wave of emigration, and reveals the pseudonymous authorship of individual texts, analyzed published under the pseudonym works. The collection also contains the republication of newspaper satires of Russian writers merzlotnykh years on the subject of aliases. In addition, the book includes bibliographic materials on pseudonymity and periodicals of Russian emigration.