This article deals with the interconnections of the first wave russian emigré war literature with the novel «Ali and Nino» (1937) by Kurban Said. The reason of such the analyses lies not only in the common emigré destiny of M. Ageev, N. Breshkovsky, A. Tolstoy, B. Zajtzev, P. Krasnov, M. Osorgin, M. Aldanov and Kurban Said, but also in the typological community of their works. Published by the russian emigré in Europe in german language the novel on the Azerbaijan society was created in terms of the classical tradition and unites many genre forms of the russian prose – love, adventure, philosophical, psychological and educational novel.