Pushkin House's video: John Bowring the first English translator of Russian poetry

In collaboration with the Anglo-Russian Research Centre, Pushkin House presents the first of our new lecture series on cross-cultural contact between Britain and Russia. In this talk and Q&A, Dr Muireann Maguire, senior lecturer in Russian at the University of Exeter, gives a history of the life and works of Sir John Bowring - an Exeter-born diplomat, polyglot and translator of poetry. Was he actually any good at translating, is their anything to read into his choices of poetry, and has his influence been overstated? The Q&A is introduced by Pushkin House's director of programming, Rafy Hay. The Anglo-Russian Research Network - https://anglorussiannetwork.wordpress.com/ - was established in 2011 by Rebecca Beasley and Matthew Taunton to bring together research students, scholars and members of the general public interested in the influence of Russian and Soviet culture and politics in Britain in the period 1880–1950. The ARRN invites proposals for reading groups on any aspect of Anglo-Russian history of cultural relations and literary/translation/reception/art history studies during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (c. 1880–1950). To get involved, please, contact Dr Ben Phillips, Nicholas Hall or Anna Maslenova, whose details are on the ARRN website. For tickets to the next five lectures in this series, as well as other online events and content, check out the Pushkin House website at https://pushkinhouse.org.