On problems of literary translation

Nikolai Ivanovich Gnedich was a poet, a contemporary of Pushkin, and a translator who recreated the Iliad in Russian - a translation that continues to be talked about today, because it was made with great knowledge of both languages ​​and a subtle poetic taste. Decades would pass and the Gnedich family would give Russian literature other representatives. Until our days, when Tatyana Grigorievna Gnedich is the continuer of this family tradition... For several years, Byron's Don Juan has not left the stage of the Leningrad Comedy Theater. The newspapers wrote a lot about the beautiful performance and even more about the translation of the famous poem, made with incredible grace, linguistic orchestration, and beautiful verse. This translation belongs precisely to the aforementioned Tatyana Grigorievna Gnedich. The translation of Don Juan has a very interesting and instructive story. And it is as follows.