To My Best Friend

Galina von Meck was grand-daughter of Nadezhda von Meck and great-neice of Tchaikovsky. Born in Moscow in 1891, she was imprisoned after the Revolution in various Siberian labour camps, but escaped to England, and was reunited there with her daughter, Anne Edward Garden is Professor of Music at the University of Sheffield Nigel Gotteri is lecturer in Russian and Slavonic Studies at the University of Sheffield. He read modern languages at St Catherine's College, Oxford, and has studied at the universities in St Petersburg, and Cracow, Poland. His main research interests are in Slavonic linguistics, on which he has published numerous papersGarden, Edward is the author of 'To My Best Friend', published 1993 under ISBN 9780198161585 and ISBN 0198161581.