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Rosamund Bartlett

Rosamund Bartlett is a British writer, scholar, lecturer, and translator 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 University.

Rosamund Bartlett is the author of ''Tolstoy: A Russian Life'' (2010) and translated Leo Tolstoy's ''Anna Karenina'' for Oxford University Press (2014). She is also the author of ''Chekhov: Scenes from a Life'' (2004) 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.

On 9 June 2022, Rosamund Bartlett gave a reading for the benefit of the victims of the Russian invasion of Ukraine at Queen's College from Trull, which consists of a presentation on the sacred art of Kyiv, Odesa and Lviv. Provided by Wikipedia