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 Rodric Braithwaite published "Across the Moscow River: The World Turned Upside Down" in 2003. A Russian language edition followed two years later.
In 2006 he published "Moscow 1941: A City and its People at War". US and Russian editions followed later in the year, and the British and US paperbacks came out in 2007. The book has been translated into fifteen other languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew and Indonesian.
Rodric Braithwaite has also written “Russia in Europe” (London 1999) and (with Robert Blackwill and Akihiko Tanaka) “Engaging Russia: A Report to the Trilateral Commission” (1995). He writes book reviews and articles on Russian and international affairs, among others in the Financial Times, the Guardian, Prospect Magazine, the New Statesman, and the Moscow Times. He is often interviewed on the British and Russian media.
He is now is working on a new project: “Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan”, which is due to come out in 2011.
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Rodric Braithwaite is a former diplomat and writer who has spent much of his career dealing with Russia, which he visits regularly.
He was born in London in 1932, when his father Warwick was a conductor at Sadler’s Wells Opera. He was educated at Bedales, served as a sergeant in military intelligence in Vienna in 1951-2, studied French and Russian at Cambridge, and joined the Diplomatic Service in 1955. He had postings in Jakarta, Warsaw, Moscow, Rome, Brussels (European Union), and Washington. He was a member of the Sherpa team for the G7 Economic Summits from 1984-8. He was British ambassador in Moscow from 1988-1992. In 1992-3 he was Foreign Policy Adviser to Prime Minister Major and Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee .
Since leaving government service, Rodric Braithwaite has been Governor of the English National Opera, Chairman of the Royal Academy of Music, Senior Adviser to Deutsche Bank, and has had a number of business and not-for-profit appointments.
He is currently Chairman of the International Advisory Council of the Moscow School of Political Studies. He was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford in 1972-3, and a Visiting Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington for April-June 2005. He is on the governing body of the Ditchley Foundation. He is an Honorary Fellow of Christ’s College Cambridge, and an Honorary Doctor and Professor of Birmingham University. He was knighted in 1988.
Since 1961 he has been married to Gillian (Robinson), an archaeologist. They have five children: Richard, Kate, Julian, David, and Mark, who died accidentally just before he was three.
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