author
Aylmer Maude
1858–1938
Best known as one of Leo Tolstoy’s most trusted English translators, he helped bring major Russian classics to a wider audience. He was also a writer in his own right and a close associate of Tolstoy, giving his work unusual firsthand authority.
2 Audiobooks
The Life of Tolstoy: First Fifty Years Fifth Edition
by Aylmer Maude
The authorized life of Marie C. Stopes
by Aylmer Maude
About the author
Born in 1858, Aylmer Maude was an English author and translator who became closely linked with the work of Leo Tolstoy. He and his wife, Louise Maude, are especially remembered for translating Tolstoy’s writings into English, work that has remained influential for generations of readers.
The Maudes lived for many years in Russia, and that direct experience shaped both their translations and Aylmer Maude’s broader writing about Russian life and thought. He was not only a translator but also a friend and interpreter of Tolstoy’s ideas, and he later wrote The Life of Tolstoy, a major biography of the novelist.
After returning to England, he continued promoting public interest in Tolstoy and his work. For audiobook listeners, Aylmer Maude matters because his translations helped define how English-speaking readers first encountered some of the great works of Russian literature.