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Best known for carefully compiled guides to Russian literature, this author helped map how Anton Chekhov and Ivan Turgenev reached English-language readers. Her work is especially appealing to readers who love books about books, translation, and literary history.
Rissa Yachnin is a bibliographer and literary reference writer associated with works published by The New York Public Library. The clearest information available points to her as the compiler of Chekhov in English: a selective list of works by and about him, 1949–1960 (1960) and, with David H. Stam, Turgenev in English: A Checklist of Works by and about Him (1962).
These books are reference works rather than conventional biographies or novels. They gather translations, criticism, and related scholarship, making them useful tools for students, librarians, and readers exploring how major Russian writers were received in English.
Little biographical information about her appears to be readily available in the sources I could confirm, so it is safest to remember her through the lasting value of her scholarship: careful, organized guides that make literary research easier.