Nikolai Findeizen (1868--1928) founded The Russian Musical Gazette in 1894 and was a member of the artistic council of the Soviet State Opera and State Ballet Theater.Samuel William Pring (1866--1954), whose home was the Isle of Wight, was an accountant, an amateur clarinetist, and a translator of works about Russian music.Milos Velimirovic is Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of Virginia.Claudia R. Jensen has published articles on Russian music in The Musical Quarterly and Journal of the American Musicological Society.