author
Rissa Yachnin
Best known for carefully curated literary reference work, this author helped map how Russian classics reached English-language readers. Her surviving publications show a strong interest in Turgenev and Chekhov, with a librarian’s eye for detail.
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Turgenev in English: A Checklist of Works by and about Him
by Rissa Yachnin, David H. Stam
About the author
Rissa Yachnin is a little-documented author and compiler whose known published work centers on Russian literature in translation. The clearest record I could confirm is her collaboration with David H. Stam on Turgenev in English: A Checklist of Works by and about Him, published by the New York Public Library in 1962.
I also found records for Chekhov in English, a selective list compiled by Yachnin around the Chekhov centennial. Taken together, these works suggest that she specialized in bibliographic and reference writing, helping readers and researchers trace English-language editions and criticism of major Russian writers.
Very little reliable biographical information appears to be readily available online beyond these publication records, so it is safest to remember her through the work itself: practical, scholarly guides built to help others navigate literature.