Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky(1887—1950) was an ethnically Polish Ukrainian-born short-story writer whose work was largely unpublished, though he was active among Moscow’s literati in the 1920s. He died in Moscow but his burial site is unknown. Joanne Turnbullhas translated a number of books from Russian, including Andrei Sinyavsky’sSoviet CivilizationandIvan the Fool, Asar Eppel’sThe Grassy Street, and Andrei Sergeyev’sStamp Album. She lives in Moscow.