IGOR GEORGIEVICH VISHNEVETSKY was born in 1964. In 1986 he graduated from the Faculty of Philology at Moscow State University and in 1996 received a PhD in Slavic languages from Brown University. Vishnevetsky has authored six collections of poetry, two monographs—on Andrei Bely and Russian émigré composers of the 1920s and 1930s—and a 700-page biography of Sergei Prokofiev. Although he publishes almost exclusively in Russian, some of his research has been written in English, including two literary biographies—of Andrei Bely and Arsenii Tarkovsky. His poetry and prose has been printed in Russian literary journals, including Znamya, October, and Novy Mir.

ANDREW BROMFIELD is a British editor and translator of Russian literature. He was a founding editor of the journal Glas, and has translated into English works by Boris Akunin, Vladimir Voinovich, Irina Denezhkina, Victor Pelevin, Mikhail Shishkin, and Sergei Lukyanenko, among many others.