In his book “Russians in Hollywood, Hollywood’s Russians: Biography of an Image,” Harlow Robinson chronicles the story of Russian émigrés in Hollywood as well as the influence of Russian artists on American cinema, and examines the depiction of Russians in Hollywood films. Tiomkin is among those featured, along with directors Lewis Milestone and Rouben Mamoulian, actors Alla Nazimova, Akim Tamiroff (pictured with Tiomkin, right), and Maria Ouspenskaya, and other composers and musicians such as Vernon Duke, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, and Constantin, Mischa, and Vladimir Bakaleinikoff. The material on Tiomkin is drawn primarily from his autobiography, “Please Don’t Hate Me,” and from Christopher Palmer’s biography, “Dimitri Tiomkin: A Portrait.” Robinson is a professor of modern languages and history at Northeastern University and also authored a biography on Prokofiev. “Russians in Hollywood, Hollywood’s Russians,” published by Northeastern University Press in 2007, can be purchased at amazon.com.