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

Russian literature Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia, its Russian diaspora, émigrés, and to Russian language, Russian-language literature. Major contributors to Russian literature, as well as English for instance, are authors of different e ...

. Bartlett graduated from

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

Oxford University The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the second-oldest continuously operating u ...

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

Leo Tolstoy Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy Tolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; ,Throughout Tolstoy's whole life, his name was written as using Reforms of Russian orthography#The post-revolution re ...

'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. Tolstoy called it his first true novel. It was initially released in serial in ...

'' for

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(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 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short-story writer, widely considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics, and his b ...

's short stories. As a translator, she published the first unexpurgated edition of Anton Chekhov'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 White Dacha (; ) is the house that Anton Chekhov had built in Yalta and in which he wrote some of his greatest work. It is now a writer's house museum. Building The White Dacha was built in 1898 following Chekhov's success with ''The Seagull ...

, the

writer's house Writers' homes (sometimes writer's, author's or literary houses) are locations where writers lived. Frequently, these homes are preserved as historic house museums and literary tourism destinations, called writer's home museums, especially when t ...

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. On 9 June 2022, Rosamund Bartlett gave a reading for the benefit of the victims of the

Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thou ...

at Queen's College from Trull, which consists of a presentation on the sacred art of

Kyiv Kyiv, also Kiev, is the capital and most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city of Ukraine. Located in the north-central part of the country, it straddles both sides of the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2, ...

Odesa Odesa, also spelled Odessa, is the third most populous List of cities in Ukraine, city and List of hromadas of Ukraine, municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern ...

and

Lviv Lviv ( or ; ; ; see #Names and symbols, below for other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the List of cities in Ukraine, fifth-largest city in Ukraine, with a population of It serves as the administrative centre of ...

.war-victims/ Tom Leaman / Rosamund Bartlett Reading / Somerset County Gazette May 31, 2022
(accessed August 21, 2023)

Selected works

* ''Victory Over the Sun: The World's First Futurist Opera'' (co-edited with Sarah Dadswell), 2012 * '' Tolstoy: A Russian Life'', 2010 * ''Chekhov: Scenes from a Life'', 2004 * ''

Shostakovich Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, group=n (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his Symphony No. 1 (Shostakovich), First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded ...

in Context'' (editor), 2000 * ''Literary Russia: A Guide'' (co-authored with Anna Benn), 1997 & 2007 * ''

Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner ( ; ; 22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, essayist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most o ...

and Russia'' (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature), 1995

As translator

* ''Anna Karenina'' by Leo Tolstoy for Oxford World's Classics * ''About Love and Other Stories'' by Anton Chekhov for Oxford World's Classics * ''A Life in Letters'', by Anton Chekhov for

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(co-translator: Anthony Phillips) * ''The Exclamation Mark'', by Anton Chekhov for Hesperus Classics * ''The Talisman and Other Tales'' by Viktoria Tokareva

References

External links

Rosamundbartlett Website
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