New Translation of Levin, ‘Burns in Russian’, 1982

New Translations of Marshak on Burns and Scotland

Project Podcast: Burns in Russia

Robert Burns Musical Settings

Poetry Translations

• Collected Poems of Robert Burns, Bilingual Edition [most complete to date], Trans. S. Sapozhnikov, St Petersburg, 2014
• Robert Burns, Poems, Bilingual Edition, Moscow: Raduga, 1982 
• R. Rait-Kovaleva, ‘Zhizn’ Roberta Burnsa’, 1979 [Introduction to Marshak’s translations of Burns]
• S. Babukh, Foreword to Burns’s Selected Lyrics, trans. T. L. Schelkina-Kupernik, 1936 [In Russian]
• Robert Burns Translated into Russian, British Library Collection Item

Burns Criticism

• Natalia Kaloh Vid, Ideological Translations of Robert Burns’s Poetry in Russia and in the Soviet Union, 2011 [monograph]
• Natalia Kaloh Vid, ‘”Soviet” Robert Burns: Ideological Adaptation of Burns’ Poetry in the Soviet Union’
• Natalia Kaloh Vid, ‘Translations of Robert Burns in the Russian Book Market: The Old and the New Age’
• Natalia Kaloh Vid, ‘Ideological Translations of Robert Burns’ Poetry by Tat’iana Shchepkina-Kupernik in the Soviet Union’ 
• Natalia Kaloh Vid, ‘Robert Burns’s “The Twa Dogs”: Ideological Aspects of Translation into Russian’ 
• D. N. Zhatkin, ‘Burns i Chukovsky’, Zhurnal Prikladnih i Fundamental’nih Issledovaniy 3.4 (2016): 693-97
• Chukovsky’s Letters to Marshak, including on Burns 
• V. Kozarovetskiy, ‘V Zaschitu Khudozhestvennogo Perevoda’ [polemical account of 1964 Burns translation controversy]
• Robert Vlach, ‘Robert Burns Through Russian Eyes,’ Studies in Scottish Literature 2.3 (1964): 152–162
• Yang De-you, ‘On Marshak’s Russian Translation of Robert Burns,’ Studies in Scottish Literature 22.1 (1987): 10-29

Historic Burns Criticism

• P. Weinberg, ‘Robert Burns’, Part I, Russkoe Bogatstvo, Sep. 1896, pp. 31-54 [and translation of ‘The Twa Corbies (Scottish Ballad)’, p. 210]
• P. Weinberg, ‘Robert Burns: Po Povodu Stoletney Godovschini Ego Smerti’, Part II, Russkoe Bogatstvo, Oct. 1896, pp. 129-155
• E. Makarova, ‘O Satire v Tvorchestve Burnsa’, Voprosy Literaturi 2 (1959): 111-130 (institutional access only) 

Burns and Russia in the Robert Burns Chronicle

• 1960: Includes information on Marshak’s August 1959 Bicentenary visit and more
• 1979

Miscellaneous

• Robert Burns (1759  – 1796) (Wikipedia)
• 1955 International Burns Festival at the Brave New Classics Blog
• Anna Elistratova at the Kilmarnock Monument, International Burns Festival, 1955 [ayrshirecollections.co.uk archived copy]
• Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre Exhibition at Robert Burns Birthplace Museum
• Burns Museum blogs on Burns and Russia
• Burns Supper at British Consulate in St Petersburg, 2016

1955 Burns Festival: Samuil Marshak, Anna Elistratova and Boris Polevoy in Scotland

and 1959 Bicentenary Visit