Yury Bit-Yunan was born in Bryansk, in western Russia. He graduated from the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow, and completed his doctorate on the work of Vasily Grossman.

Yury Bit-Yunan

Robert Chandler’s translations from Russian include works by Alexander Pushkin, Vasily Grossman, Andrey Platonov, and Teffi. He has also written a short biography of Pushkin and compiled three anthologies for Penguin Classics: of Russian short stories, of Russian magic tales, and, with Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski,&nbsp;The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry. His latest translation is Vasily Grossman’s&nbsp;Stalingrad&nbsp;(NYRB Classics, 2019).

Robert Chandler

Vasily Grossman: Myths and Counter-Myths

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Yury Bit-Yunan was born in Bryansk, in western Russia. He graduated from the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow, and completed his doctorate on the work of Vasily Grossman.