Every year, the cultural ties of the Committee with our compatriots from many countries of the world are expanding and strengthening. Recently we have received many letters from writers, poets and artists. The collection “In the Lands of Strangers” offered to the reader’s attention was prepared on their initiative and with their participation .. Among the authors of the collection are people of different generations, different life and creative experience .. Along with such well-known writers and artists in emigration as M. Vega and B. Yakonovsky (France), V. Arnautov and S. Shcherbakov (USA), M. Vozlinsky and O. Siniaver (Belgium), V. Shlyamin (England) and A. Tchaikovsky (Canada), in our editorial office sent their works beginning prose writers and poets — A. Sunday (Canada), L. Golovatenko (Belgium), C. East (Morocco), E. Sitnikova (Yugoslavia) . From the Soviet Union we received poems from former emigrants - the poet and artist Yu. B. Sofiev and Professor of Moscow State University I. N. Golenishchev-Kutuzov . The only material that we borrowed from the magazine published in the USSR are the memoirs of Alexander Vertinsky.