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@Gargron@mastodon.social In English, the angel and demon of Russian literature is Constance Garnett, who translated much of Tolstoy, Pushkin, and Dostoevsky. Angel, cuz she was one of the earliest sources of English translation. Demon, cuz she manages to make Tolstoy, Pushkin, and Dostoevsky sound like the same writer. Nabokov's Pushkin translation is an exercise in erudition. Half of every page is his translated quatrain. The other half, sometimes even more, is his footnotes about his choices & alternates.