Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was born in 1818 in the province of
Oryol. In 1827 he entered St Petersburg University where he studied
philosophy. When he was nineteen he published his first poems and
went to the University of Berlin. After two years he returned to
Russia and took his degree at the University of Moscow. After 1856
he lived mostly abroad, and he became the first Russian writer to
gain a wide reputation in Europe. He wrote many novels, plays,
short stories and novellas, of which First Love (1860) is the most
famous. He died in Paris in 1883.
Peter Carson learned Russian during National Service in the Navy at
the Joint Services School for Linguistics, Crail and London, and at
home - his mother's family left Russia after the Bolshevik
Revolution. His working life has been spent on the editorial side
of London publishing.
Rosamund Bartlett lectures in Russian and music at the University
of Durham. The author of Wagner and Russia (1995), Literary Russia-
A Guide (with Anna Benn, 1997) and Chekhov- Scenes from a Life
(2004), she has edited a collection of essays about Shostakovich
and published numerous articles on aspects of Russian cultural
history. She has also completed new translations of a selection of
Chekhov s short stories, About Love and Other Stories (2004).
Tatiana Tolstaya was born in Leningrad in 1951 to an aristocratic
family that includes the writers Leo and Alexei Tolstoy. She has
published, among other books, a novel, The Slynx, and a collection
of short stories, White Walls.
Fathers and Sons was one of the first Russian novels to be
translated for a wider European audience. It is a difficult art: in
this superb new version, Peter Carson has succeeded splendidly
*The Times*
If you want to get as close as an English reader can to enjoying
Turgenev, Carson is probably the best
*Times Literary Supplement*
Fathers and Sons was one of the first Russian novels to be
translated for a wider European audience. It is a difficult art: in
this superb new version, Peter Carson has succeeded splendidly--
Michael Binyon * The Times *
If you want to get as close as an English reader can to enjoying
Turgenev, Carson is probably the best -- Donald Rayfield * Times
Literary Supplement *
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