A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections
Isabel Florence Hapgood (1851-1928) was an U. S. writer and translator of Russian texts. She was born in Boston, the descendant of a long-established New England family. She studied Germanic and Slavic languages, specializing in Orthodox liturgical texts. She was one of the major figures in the dialogue between Western Christianity and Orthodoxy. She traveled through Russia between 1887 and 1889, meeting Leo Tolstoy. Hapgood died in New York. Her works include: The Epic Songs of Russia (1886), Russian Rambles (1895), A Survey of Russian Literature (1902), The Village (with Ivan Alekseevich Bunin) (1923) and Little Russian and St. Petersburg Tales (? ). --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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