The first volume of the three-volume edition devoted to the work of Arseny Nesmelov (1889–1945) consists of two parts and includes scientifically processed archival materials from the writer's prose heritage (19131945.). ). Collected on domestic and foreign archives, private collections, texts passed source studies and textual processing; accompanied by scientific (linguistic, source studies, historical) comments. Their composition in the book reflects and clarifies the facts of the creative biography of Nesmelov the prose writer: pre-war publications in the capital's magazines, stories printed by the front-line soldier Mitropolsky in 1913-1917 . , then - prosaic works of Omsk, Vladivostok and, finally, the Harbin period . The structural whole of the book reconstructs the stages of formation of artistic and ethno-cultural consciousness of the Russian writer-emigrant Arseny Ivanovich Nesmelov, the history of culture of the Far Eastern abroad, the life of the Russian Harbin. The publication of the book is timed to coincide with the Year of Literature and will become a real literary event. The book is addressed to a wide range of readers: specialists-philologists, historians, students of humanities faculties of universities, teachers, students of schools, lyceums and all those who are interested in domestic history, the history of domestic literature of the XX century. , culture of Russian abroad, explores the problems of artistic heritage of writers of Russian China