Masha Slonim is a British and Russian journalist. She is the granddaughter of Maxim Litvinov, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and Soviet Ambassador to the United States, and the daughter of sculptor Ilya Slonim and translator Tatyana Litvinova. She was subjected to KGB pressure due to her dissident activities. In 1974, she emigrated to the United States and then settled in the UK, where she worked for many years in the BBC Russian Service. In the late 1980s, she returned to Russia and participated in the BBC documentary series "The Second Russian Revolution," dedicated to perestroika. She also became one of the authors of the Moscow Charter of Journalists (1994). In the 1990s and early 2000s, she organized informal meetings of journalists and politicians within the closed community "Congress Lovers Club." In 2015, she moved back to the UK.

"In short, Masha Slonim. Whatever you say about her, it's less than she actually is" (poet Anatoly Naiman). Granddaughter of the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and USSR Ambassador to the United States Maxim Litvinov, daughter of the sculptor Ilya Slonim, legendary Moscow beauty of the 1970s, confidant of Joseph Brodsky, widow of an English lord—such a person has a lot to tell! And these are just the facts from her personal and family history. Then there's the history of Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, in which Masha Slonim, a hereditary rebel and dissident, played a role.
Before emigrating, she participated in saving Solzhenitsyn's archive after his arrest, and miraculously escaped repression herself. In exile, she worked for the renowned Ardis publishing house and was a BBC journalist during its golden age. In perestroika-era Moscow, she witnessed and participated in the era of free speech... Masha Slonim's long-awaited memoirs are a spy thriller, a dramatic confession, 20th-century anecdotes, and portraits of the world's most famous. The book also reflects Masha's special talent—her ability to approach life with ease and fearlessness, valuing freedom and individuality above all else.