Rosamund Bartlett is a British writer, scholar, lecturer, and translator specializing in

Russian literature Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia and its émigrés and to Russian-language literature. The roots of Russian literature can be traced to the Middle Ages, when epics and chronicles in Old East Slavic were composed. By the ...

. Bartlett graduated from

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with a first-class degree in Russian. She went on to complete a doctorate at

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. Rosamund Bartlett is the author of '' Tolstoy: A Russian Life'' (2010) and has translated

Leo 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 ...

's ''

Anna Karenina ''Anna Karenina'' ( rus, «Анна Каренина», p=ˈanːə kɐˈrʲenʲɪnə) is a novel by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy, first published in book form in 1878. Widely considered to be one of the greatest works of literature ever writt ...

'' (2014). She is also the author of ''Chekhov: Scenes from a Life'' (2004) and has translated two volumes of

Anton Chekhov Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (; 29 January 1860 Old Style date 17 January. – 15 July 1904 Old Style date 2 July.) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career ...

's short stories.Review of Tolstoy biography
/ref> As a translator, she published the first unexpurgated edition of

's letters, and she was awarded the ''Chekhov 150th Anniversary Medal'' in 2010 by the Russian government for work her Chekhov Foundation has done in preserving the White Dacha, the writer's house in

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Selected works

* '' Tolstoy: A Russian Life'' * ''Chekhov: Scenes from a Life'' * ''Literary Russia: A Guide'' (co-authored with Anna Benn) * ''Victory Over the Sun: The World's First Futurist Opera'' (co-edited with Sarah Dadswell) * ''Shostakovich in Context'' (editor) * ''Wagner and Russia'' (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature)

As translator

* ''Anna Karenina'' by

for

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* ''About Love and Other Stories'' by

for

* ''A Life in Letters'', by

for

Penguin Classics Penguin Classics is an imprint of Penguin Books under which classic works of literature are published in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Korean among other languages. Literary critics see books in this series as important members of the West ...

(co-translator:

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) * ''The Exclamation Mark'', by

for Hesperus Classics * ''The Talisman and Other Tales'' by

Viktoria Tokareva Viktoriya Samuilovna Tokareva (russian: Виктория Самуиловна Токарева) (born 20 November 1937) is a Soviet and Russian screenwriter and short story writer. Her work has been translated into English and is available in sever ...

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