Marina Razumovsky was born in Czechoslovakia. She was educated in Troppau and Vienna and left Czechoslovakia in 1946. From then until 1986, she was a librarian in the National Library of Austria in Vienna specialising in Russian literature. She is a member of Vereinigung Osterreichischer Bibliothekare, and was for many years the Austrian representative in different commissions of the International Federation of Library Associations. She has published many articles in library journals and Festchriften. Her translations from Russian include Voslensky's Nomenklatura, and E.N. Sayn-Waittgenstein's Diary 1914-18, her mother's first-hand account of life before and during the Russian Revolution. She lives in Vienna. Countess Razumovsky's family comes from Russia and was rather influential there during the 18th Century. Her great-great-grandfather was Hetman of Ukraine uner the Empresses Elizabeth and Catherine II. Two of his sons settled in Austria: one, Count, later Price Andre Razumovsky, was Russian Ambassador to the court of Vienna during the Napoleonic Wars and a Friend and protector of Beethoven (who dedicated his Razumovsky Quartets to him); the other, her great-grandfather Count Gergoire Razumovsky, was a distinguished geologist.