Avril Pyman

Avril Pyman (aka Dr Avril Sokolov, FBA; born 4 May 1930) is a British scholar and translator of Russian poetry and children's literature. She was a reader in Russian at Durham University and its first female scholar elected as a Fellow of the British Academy. She also wrote a study of Russian symbolism and biographies of Alexander Blok and Pavel Florensky. She is the widow of Russian artist Kirill Sokolov, the father of her daughter Irina (Irene). Provided by Wikipedia