Hadji Murad Paperback - 1996

Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was born in central Russia. After serving in the Crimean War, he retired to his estate and devoted himself to writing, farming, and raising his large family. His novels and outspoken social polemics brought him world fame.
Richard Pevear has published translations of Alain, Yves Bonnefoy, Alberto Savinio, Pavel Florensky, and Henri Volohonsky, as well as two books of poetry. He has received fellowships or grants for translation from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the French Ministry of Culture. Larissa Volokhonsky was born in Leningrad. She has translated works by the prominent Orthodox theologians Alexander Schmemann and John Meyendorff into Russian. Together, Pevear and Volokhonsky have translated" Dead Souls" and" The Collected Tales" by Nikolai Gogol, " The Complete Short Novels of Chekhov," and" The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, Notes from Underground, Demons, The Idiot, " and" The Adolescent" by Fyodor Dostoevsky. They were twice awarded the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize (for their version of Dostoevsky's" The Brothers Karamazov" and for Tolstoy's" Anna Karenina"), and their translation of Dostoevsky's" Demons" was one of three nominees for the same prize. They are married and live in France.