Aleksandra E. Titkova

“AS IT WAS IN ENGLAND IN THE EARLY 16TH CENTURY”: THE ENGLISH THEME IN S. VOLCHKOV’S COLLECTION OF FABLES

The article analyzes the translation of Roger L’Estrange’s collection of fables (“Fables of Aesop and Other Eminent Mythologists”), which was done by Sergei Volchkov, secretary of the Academy of Sciences, and published by him in 1747 under the title “Aesop’s Fables with Moral Lessons and Notes by Roger Letrange”. The a...