Charles James Hogarth (1869-1945) was a British soldier and prolific translator from

Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...

, who wrote as C. J. Hogarth. He translated work by writers including

Dostoevsky Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (, ; rus, Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский, Fyódor Mikháylovich Dostoyévskiy, p=ˈfʲɵdər mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪdʑ dəstɐˈjefskʲɪj, a=ru-Dostoevsky.ogg, links=yes; 11 November 18219 ...

Tolstoy Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; russian: link=no, Лев Николаевич Толстой,In Tolstoy's day, his name was written as in pre-refor ...

Gogol Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol; uk, link=no, Мико́ла Васи́льович Го́голь, translit=Mykola Vasyliovych Hohol; (russian: Яновский; uk, Яновський, translit=Yanovskyi) ( – ) was a Russian novelist, ...

Turgenev Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (; rus, links=no, Ива́н Серге́евич Турге́невIn Turgenev's day, his name was written ., p=ɪˈvan sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ tʊrˈɡʲenʲɪf; 9 November 1818 – 3 September 1883 ( Old Style da ...

Maxim Gorky Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (russian: link=no, Алексе́й Макси́мович Пешко́в; – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky (russian: Макси́м Го́рький, link=no), was a Russian writer and social ...

Ivan Goncharov Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (, also ; rus, Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Гончаро́в, r=Iván Aleksándrovich Goncharóv, p=ɪˈvan ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪdʑ ɡənʲtɕɪˈrof; – ) was a Russian novelist best known for his ...

Ivan Shmelev Ivan Sergeyevich Shmelyov (russian: Иван Сергеевич Шмелёв, also spelled ''Shmelev'' and ''Chmelov'') ( – 24 June 1950) was a Russian writer best known for his full-blooded idyllic recreations of the pre-revolutionary past ...

, Ivan Nazhivin, V. O. Klyuchevsky,

Henryk Sienkiewicz Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz ( , ; 5 May 1846 – 15 November 1916), also known by the pseudonym Litwos (), was a Polish writer, novelist, journalist and Nobel Prize laureate. He is best remembered for his historical novels, especi ...

and

Alexandra Kollontai Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai (russian: Алекса́ндра Миха́йловна Коллонта́й, née Domontovich, Домонто́вич; – 9 March 1952) was a Russian revolutionary, politician, diplomat and Theoretician ...

Life

Hogarth was born on 7 December 1869, and educated at

Charterhouse School (God having given, I gave) , established = , closed = , type = Public school Independent day and boarding school , religion = Church of England , president ...

. He joined the

Highland Light Infantry The Highland Light Infantry (HLI) was a light infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 1881. It took part in the First and Second World Wars, until it was amalgamated with the Royal Scots Fusiliers in 1959 to form the Royal Highland Fusi ...

in 1890, but retired in 1891. In 1900-1901 he fought in the

Second Boer War The Second Boer War ( af, Tweede Vryheidsoorlog, , 11 October 189931 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, the Anglo–Boer War, or the South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer Republics (the Sout ...

for the 1st Railway Pioneer Regiment, Scott's Sharpshooters and the Cape Special Police. By 1904 he was living in

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. He died on 5 April 1945.

Reception

Semion Rapoport caustically noted the propagandistic tone, "in the best style of the year 1914", of Hogarth's translation of

's ''The Sun of the Dead'' (1927), which anachronistically substituted "German hordes" for Shmelev's "German". Rapoport was also severe in his criticism of a 1915 translation of Gogol's ''

Dead Souls ''Dead Souls'' (russian: «Мёртвые души», ''Mjórtvyje dúshi'') is a novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842, and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature. The novel chronicles the travels and adv ...

'' (a credit sometimes printed as "D. J. Hogarth"): Hogarth's version of V. O. Klyuchevsky's five-volume ''History of Russia'' has been called "a very poor English translation". His 1915 translation of Goncharov's ''

Oblomov ''Oblomov'' ( ru , link=no, Обломов; ) is the second novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is the central character of the novel, portrayed as the ultimate incarnation of the superfluous man, ...

'' "sounds very British and contains inaccuracies.

Selected translations

: ''Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth'' (1912) * Dostoevsky: '' Letters from the Underworld'' (1913) * Sienkiewicz: '' Quo Vadis?'' (1914) * Goncharov: ''

'' (1915) * Gogol: ''

'' (Dent, 1915) * Gogol: ''Taras Bulba and Other Stories'' (Dent, 1918) * Turgenev: '' Fathers and Sons'' (1921) * Gorky: ''Through Russia'' (1921) * Klyuchevsky: ''A History of Russia'' (1926) * Shmelev: ''The Sun of the Dead'' (1927) * Nazhivin: ''Rasputin'' (1929) * Kollontai: ''Free Love'' (1932)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hogarth, Charles James 1869 births 1945 deaths People educated at Charterhouse School British colonial army officers British translators Russian–English translators Translators of Fyodor Dostoyevsky Translators of Leo Tolstoy British military personnel of the Second Boer War