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Rosamund Bartlett is the author of the acclaimed biography Chekhov: Scenes from a Life. An authority on Russian cultural history, she has also achieved renown as a translator of Chekhov's stories and letters. Her other books include Wagner and Russia and Shostakovich in Context. Tolstoy: A Life is her most recent work.
'The extraordinary character of the giant is captured better by Bartlett than by any previous biographer' - Spectator 'Superbly readable and, in contrast to some earlier biographies, treats the great novelist's sometimes strange enthusiasms and obsessions sympathetically and seriously.' - Rowan Williams Archbishop of Canterbury, Mail on Sunday Books of the Year 'Conveys Tolstoy to me more vividly than any biography I have read.' - Financial Times
