"Anthony Phillips learnt Russian in the ""Secret Classrooms""of National Service in the 1950s and later at Oxford. Thelanguage continued to play an important part during his latercareer in music administration, during which he becamegeneral manager of London's Royal Festival Hall. Story of aFriendship, his translation of Shostakovich's letters to IsaakGlikman, was published by Faber in 2000, and AntonChekhov: A Life in Letters (with Rosamund Bartlett) byPenguin Classics in 2004."
'The third and final instalment of Prokofiev's diaries . . . in AnthonyPhillips's excellently clear translation . . . These diaries are addictive andthe effect of not seeing the life through his eyes anymore is a wrench . . . Astupendous work.' - Alexander Waugh, Literary Review 'Should appeal well beyond Prokofiev's immediate fan base to readers intriguedby the siren song of Christian Science and / or sympatheticoutsider's take on the Diaghilev set.' - David Gutman, Gramphone