Rosamund Bartlett Explained

Rosamund Bartlett is a British writer, scholar, lecturer, and translator specializing in Russian literature.^[1]

Bartlett graduated from Durham University with a first-class degree in Russian.^[2] She went on to complete a doctorate at Oxford University.^[3]

Rosamund Bartlett is the author of (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.^[4]

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.^[5]

Selected works

• Victory Over the Sun: The World's First Futurist Opera (co-edited with Sarah Dadswell), 2012
• , 2010
• Chekhov: Scenes from a Life, 2004
• Shostakovich in Context (editor), 2000
• Literary Russia: A Guide (co-authored with Anna Benn), 1997 & 2007
• Wagner 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 Penguin Classics (co-translator: Anthony Phillips)
• The Exclamation Mark, by Anton Chekhov for Hesperus Classics
• The Talisman and Other Tales by Viktoria Tokareva

External links

• Rosamundbartlett Website

Notes and References

1. http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/russian/bartlett.html Profile in Oxford University website
2. Web site: Gazette, 1983/84 . Durham University Library . 19 November 2018 . en.
3. Web site: Bartlett, Rosamund . Encyclopedia . 19 November 2018 . en.
4. Web site: Tolstoy: A Russian Life by Rosamund Bartlett – review . 14 November 2010 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20230704065953/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/nov/14/tolstoy-russian-life-rosamund-bartlett-review . 4 July 2023 . live .
5. https://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/20178080.rosamund-bartletts-ukraine-lecture-will-raise-money- war-victims/ Tom Leaman / Rosamund Bartlett Reading / Somerset County Gazette May 31, 2022