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.
MALCOLM BROWN has been a television documentary-maker and is the author of many books on military history, including Tommy Goes to War, the IWM Book of the Somme, and the IWM Book of 1918. He is a freelance historian at the Imperial War Museum.SHIRLEY SEATON has worked for many years as a television researcher and local historian. She was researcher for Lyn Macdonald's book 1914-1918: Voices and Images of the Great War, and with co-author Reginald Coleman wrote and published Stamford Brook: An Affectionate Portrait.