Mirsky Dmitry Petrovich. A History of Russian Literature. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1964.

PRINCE DMITRY SVYATOPOLK MIRSKY was born in Russia in 1890 and was educated at the University of St Petersburg. After five years’ military service he came to England and lectured on Russian literature at King’s College, London University, from 1922 to 1932. He then returned to Russia, where he was a member of the Union of Soviet Writers and a contributor to various Russian newspapers and journals. Mirsky occupies a unique position as an interpreter of English literature to his own countrymen, publishing, for example, a book entitled *The Intelligentsia of Great Britain* in 1935, and an essay on T. S. Eliot in the March 1933 issue of *Krasnaia Nov'*. He also wrote *Pushkin* (1926), *A History of Russia* (1927), *Russia: A Social History* (1931), and a book on the Soviet Russian novel, published in 1934. The present whereabouts of D. S. Mirsky are unknown. *International Who’s Who* continued to publish its brief sketch of him as late as the 1948 edition, but no new information had been added since 1943–44. There were rumours that he had been exiled and died in Siberia, but counter-rumours placed him in Moscow as late as the summer of 1948.