Simon Boyanus

Simon's father was Karl Karlovich Boyanus, a famous homeopathic doctor, German by origin.

After university he graduated from the State Courses of Dramatic Art in Moscow and under the pseudonym Bronevsky worked in the capital's theaters as a director and actor.

[8] Boyanus was a professor of English philology at the University of Leningrad, where he worked with Russian linguist Lev Shcherba.

[12] After his marriage, Boyanus had to return to the Soviet Union for eight years, while Armstrong had to stay in England.

Boyanus was finally able to permanently move to England in January 1934, whereupon he became a lecturer in Russian and Phonetics at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University of London.