Do you like the response, the leading UK chehoveda and translators Rosamund Bartlett on a reporter's question "how did Chekhov managed to win because not only her heart but the hearts of several generations of Englishmen, who have no relation to the study of Russian culture," to which she responded that "Tolstoy and Dostoevsky - too ambitious for the British. And in the works of Chekhov British public sees himself. Attracts restraint of emotions - which is quite important for the British - and his sense of irony. "
"And, of course, England - a country of losers," - laughing, adds Rosamund Bartlett.
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