Dmitri Smirnov

Дзмітры Мікалаевіч Смірноў, literary pseudonym: Д. Смирнов-Садовский Soviet composer and author. Resident in England from 1991. Born: 2nd November 1948 Minsk, Belarus (then in the USSR) Died: 9th April 2020 Watford, England Married to Elena Firsova (лена Фирсова). Inspired by the work of poet William Blake, translating all of his works into Russian and writing the first Russian biography of him in 2016. Death attributed to Covid-19