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Roger Cockrell

Roger Cockrell graduated from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London, in 1965 and, after a year at Moscow University as a British Council scholar, was appointed as a lecturer in Russian at Exeter University. In 1979–80 he was a visiting associate professor at the University of Toronto, and from 1980 until 2004 was head of the Russian Department at Exeter. He is currently Honorary Fellow in Russian at Exeter. He has translated many Russian books and two screenplays, and is the author of several books and articles on Russian literature.

BOOKS BY THIS TRANSLATOR

White Nights and Other Stories

By Fyodor Dostoevsky

NEW TRANSLATION BY ROGER COCKRELL Feeling alone and abandoned by everyone, a young man and self-confessed dreamer decides to take to the streets of St Petersburg during one of its long summer nights. As he roams around the empty city, he chances on a weeping girl, whom he approaches and rescues from…

The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants

By Fyodor Dostoevsky

Presented in a new translation by Roger Cockrell, The Village of Stepanchikovo and Its Inhabitants was originally conceived as a play and first published in 1859, shortly after the author’s release from forced military service. Gogolian in style and tone, and waspish in its description of the villai…

Crime and Punishment

By Fyodor Dostoevsky

Poverty-stricken and cut off from society, former law student Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov leads a desolate life in a dreary little room in St Petersburg. Having abandoned all hopes of sustaining himself through work, he now obsesses over the idea of changing his fortunes through an act of extreme…

Uncle’s Dream

By Fyodor Dostoevsky

Presented in a brand-new translation by Roger Cockrell. Uncle’s Dream was written soon after Dostoevsky was released from the prison camp that inspired The House of the Dead. It shares very little of that novel’s gloomy tone and contains many elements of a light, drawing-room farce. Beneath the surf…

The Government Inspector

By Nikolai Gogol

The mayor and local officials of a small provincial town in Russia have got it made: corruption is rife and they have all the power. Yet, when they learn that an undercover government inspector is about to make a visit, they face a mad dash to cover their tracks. Soon, the news that a suspicious per…

Three Years

By Anton Chekhov

Chekhov’s second-longest prose work after The Steppe, Three Years is, in the author’s own words, “a novel of Moscow life” and an examination of its merchant classes. A powerful story of redemption and the nuances of human relationships, the novella helped cement Chekhov’s reputation as a major figur…

The House of the Dead

By Fyodor Dostoevsky

Based on Dostoevsky’s own autobiographical experiences of penal servitude in Siberia, this genre-defying novel is not only an unflinching exposé of the conditions faced by prisoners during the Tsarist period, but also a call to see the human side in criminals and rediscover the values of forgiveness…

The White Guard

By Mikhail Bulgakov

Set in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev during the chaotic winter of 1918–19, The White Guard, Bulgakov’s first full-length novel, tells the story of a Russian-speaking family trapped in circumstances that threaten to destroy them. As in Tolstoy’s War and Peace, the narrative centres on the stark contr…

The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories

By Leo Tolstoy

An uncompromising examination of lust, suspicion and infidelity which was once forbidden by censors in Russia and banned in the US due to its shocking content, Tolstoy’s controversial novella – here presented in a new translation, along with ‘The Prisoner of the Caucasus’, ‘Master and Man’ and ‘Afte…

The Fatal Eggs

By Mikhail Bulgakov

Set in 1928 but written four years earlier, during Stalin’s rise to power, The Fatal Eggs is both an early piece of science fiction reminiscent of H.G. Wells and a biting, brilliant satire on the consequences of the abuse of power and knowledge. Professor Persikov, an eccentric zoologist, stumbles u…

Notes on a Cuff and Other Stories

By Mikhail Bulgakov

Stylistically brilliant and brimming with humour and literary allusion, Notes on a Cuff is presented here in a new translation, along with a collection of other short pieces by Bulgakov, many of them – such as ‘The Cockroach’ and ‘A Dissolute Man’ – published for the first time in the English langua…

Diaries and Selected Letters

By Mikhail Bulgakov

This ample selection from the diaries and letters of the Bulgakovs, mostly translated for the first time into English, provides an insightful glimpse into a fascinating period of Russian history and literature, telling the tragic tale of the fate of an artist under a totalitarian regime. The career…

Devils

By Fyodor Dostoevsky

Devils is at once a compelling political statement and a study of atheism and its calamitous effect on a country that is teetering on the edge of an abyss. Seen as Dostoevsky’s most powerful indictment of man’s propensity to violence, this darkly humorous work, shot through with grotesque comedy, is…

Black Snow

By Mikhail Bulgakov

Unpublished in Bulgakov’s own lifetime, Black Snow is peppered with darkly comic set pieces and draws on its author’s own bitter experience as a playwright with the Moscow Arts Theatre, showcasing his inimitable gift for shrewd observation and razor-sharp satire. After being saved from a suicide att…

A Calendar of Wisdom

By Leo Tolstoy

Over the last fifteen years of his life, Tolstoy collected and published the maxims of some of the world’s greatest masters of philosophy, religion and literature, adding his own contributions to various questions that preoccupied him in old age, such as faith and existence, as well as matters of ev…

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