I AM ESPECIALLY grateful to Vasily Grossman’s daughter, Yekaterina Korotkova, and his stepson, Fyodor Guber, both of whom have been patient and generous in answering questions. All unreferenced quotations or references to them are from personal correspondence. I also thank Fyodor Guber and his daughter Elena Fyodorovna Guber for allowing us to reproduce photographs from their fine collection.
It has been a joy, as always, to collaborate with my wife, Elizabeth, and with the Moscow scholar Yury Bit-Yunan.
I also wish to thank Michele Berdy, Olive Classe, Boris Dralyuk, David Fel′dman, John and Carol Garrard, Natalya Gonchar-Khandzhyan, Gasan Gusejnov, Alvard Jivanyan, Mark Miller, Francesca Ovi, Stephen Pearl, Anne Schumann, Gagik Stepan-Sarkissian, Polly Zavadivker, and the many members of my translation classes at Queen Mary, University of London and of the SEELANGS e-mail discussion group who have contributed to these translations.
R.C.