The sixth volume of the bie bao series revolves around Ilya Zdanevich’s account of his visit to Berlin at the end of 1922. The report offers a scathing takedown of Russian writers whom he accuses of commodifying and watering down the avant-garde discoveries. Zdanevich dismisses these opportunist writers as ‘khaltura’ writers — using a re-emerged Russian word designating hackwork, sloppiness, or simply kitsch art. Fascinating to anyone interested in the fate of the avant-garde in exile, Zdanevich Berlin’s report is translated and introduced by Roman Utkin, the author of a monograph on Russian Culture in Weimar Berlin.