Rosamund Bartlett


Rosamund Bartlett is a writer, scholar, translator and lecturer specializing in Russian literature.
Bartlett graduated from Durham University with a first-class degree in Russian. She went on to complete a doctorate at Oxford.
Rosamund Bartlett is the author of Tolstoy: A Russian Life and has translated Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. She is also the author of Chekhov: Scenes from a Life and has translated two volumes of Anton Chekhov'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 writer's house in Yalta.

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