Andrew Donskov, member of the Royal Society of Canada, is Distinguished Professor at the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures of the University of Ottawa. His research focuses on Russian theatre and drama during the nineteenth century, Russian peasant literature, the Doukhobors, and the literary career of Leo Tolstoy. He received the Tolstoy Medal for Distinguished Contributions to Tolstoy Studies, awarded by the L.
N. Tolstoy Museum in Moscow, in 2015.
John Woodsworth is a research associate with the Slavic Research Group at the University of Ottawa and a member of the Literary Translators' Association of Canada. He has been a professional translator for over forty-five years and has translated more than 20 books.
Arkadi Klioutchanski is a doctoral student of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Toronto.
He is a research associate with the Slavic Research Group at the University of Ottawa, where he also teaches Russian.