Maisky, Ivan. - THE MAISKY DIARIES. Red Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s 1932-1943. Translated by Tatiana Sorokina and Oliver Ready. Edited by Gabriel Gorodetsky.

Yale University Press, 2015. 3rd Imp. Thick 8vo. [xlviii] + 584pp. 77 ills. from photos. Good in very sl. chipped d/w. ¶ With 2 TLS from Maisky viz: ‘... 17th July, 1941. Dear Mr Robertson Scott, Will you please accept my very sincere thanks for the cheque for £10 which you have so very kindly forwarded from "The Countryman". It will give me much pleasure to forward this to the Soviet Red Cross. I am also very pleased to know your delight at the Agreement which now exists between our two countries. Yours sincerely J. Maisky J.W. Robertson Soctt, Esq.’ ‘14th February, 1943. Dear Sir, Thank you for your letter of the 10th. I do appreciate teh way you have expressed your indignation against the defilement of the Lenin Memorial which occurred recently. Yours sincerely J. Maisky Ambassador of the USSR in Great Britain Mr J.W. Robertson-Hill Countryman, Idbury, Kingham, Oxford.’ Ivan Mikhailovich Maisky, a Soviet diplomat, historian and politician, served as the Soviet Union's Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1932 to 1943, including much of the period of the Second World War. John William Robertson Scott CH (1866-1962) British journalist and author, best known for his writings on rural affairs,

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