Vilʹi︠a︡m Rolʹston - propagandist russkoĭ literatury i folʹklora
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William Shedden Rolston (1828-1889), an English literary man, was a well-known enthusiast of Russian literature and folklore propaganda in English-speaking countries. Being a friend of Turgenev, he translated his works and a lot of Russian songs, fables, and fairy-tales. William Rolston wrote a number of critic, philological, and biographical articles about such Russian writers as Turgenev, Nekrasov, Tolstoy, etc. The appendix contains 158 letters of Rolston to 18 Russian literary men, philologists and public figures.
