Russian samizdat novel, Nikto, which was about the seamy side of the life of Bohemian dissidents and had been smuggled out of Russia in 1966. She went on to translate verse from Russian into both English and French, contributed to Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, and wrote articles and reviews, including work for Encounter, the Times Literary Supplement and The Literary Review. The FitzLyons visited Russia both before and after the collapse of Communism. For about twenty-five years before her death, April FitzLyon was the General Secretary of the Russian Refugees Aid Society, and she made many broadcasts for BBC Radio. At the time of her death, her publisher John Calder called her "a scholar of the old school". Selected publications The Woman in the Case and Other Stories (1953), translation of stories by Anton Chekhov (jointly with Kyril FitzLyon) Three Novellas (1953), translations of three short novels by Leo Tolstoy (one of the three jointly with Kyril FitzLyon) The Devil and Family Happiness, translation from Leo Tolstoy (London: Spearman & Calder, 1953, 2nd edition 1954) The Libertine Librettist (1955), a biography of Lorenzo da Ponte Ladies Delight (1957), translation of Émile Zola's Au bonheur des dames The Price of Genius (1964), a biography of Pauline García-Viardot Blaze of Embers (Calder and Boyars, 1971), translation of novel by André Pieyre de Mandiargues Nobody: or, The Disgospel according to Maria Dementnaya (1975), novel translated from the Russian Maria Malibran: diva of the romantic age (1987), a biography A month in the country: an exhibition presented by the Theatre Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, and arranged in conjunction with April FitzLyon (with Alexander Schouvaloff) catalogue of the Victoria and Albert Museum's Theatre Museum Ivan Turgenev centenary exhibition (1983) References External links April FitzLyon at bookfinder.com 1920 births 1998 deaths Alumni of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama English translators English biographers English historians People educated at St Mary's School, Calne People from Dorset Place of death missing Russian–English translators French–English translators Italian–English translators 20th-century British translators 20th-century biographers