'For the English-speaking world, War and Peace is six volumes, while for the Russian reader it is four volumes.' In addition, for convenience, the Maude translation was set out differently from the canonical approach taken to the Russian version of the novel: the text was divided into 15 books by year (from 1805 to 1813) plus two epilogues (1813-1820). 'We used the Louise and Aylmer Maude translation published in 1922-1923, based on the second edition of the novel (1868-1869), which differs from the version Russian readers are more familiar with, uploaded into the app in 2015,' HSE Philology School student Veronica Feinberg said. But in 2017, not only were English-speaking Russian literature enthusiasts able to get to know War and Peace, the most popular Russian novel among international readers, they could also review the additional material relating to the characters, the historical context, the mores and daily life of the epoch in which the novel is set, and gain an insight into particular linguistic phrases and rare Russian words.Īlthough the students had already enhanced the Russian-language version, the English language version was a task in itself, not least because there are significant differences in the structure and content of the Russian and English language versions of War and Peace. All these novels have, until now, only been available for download in the Russian language.
Since then other famous works by Russian authors have followed suit, including Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, The Captain's Daughter, and Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin, Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak. In 2015, War and Peace was the first book to be included in the Live Pages interactive library. Students at HSE's Linguistics and Philology Schools were involved in developing this project. An English-language translation of Lev Tolstoy's War and Peace is now available on the Live Pages mobile app.
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