Dr Avril Pyman was awarded her PhD by the University of Cambridge in 1958 and continued as a British Council research scholar in Leningrad. Pyman taught Russian and Russian Literature at the University of Durham and is now retired. She is the author of many articles on and translations of Russian literature and of The Life of Aleksandr Blok (2 vols) 1979-1980; History of Russian Symbolism, 1984, and Pavel Florensky – A Quiet Genius, 2010.
