Anna Kurkina Rush holds a PhD from the University of St Andrews. She previously taught English at the University of Vladimir and Russian at George Watson’s College, Edinburgh, and the University of St Andrews. An acclaimed translator from and into Russian, she translated into English numerous works, mostly hitherto untranslated, including all Yuri Tynianov’s novels - Pushkin, TheDeath of Vazir-Mukhtar and Küchlya - and, into Russian, a historical novel about Shakespeare. She is currently an independent researcher and lives in Edinburgh. At present she is editing a book entitled Futilities of Facts, a companion to Tynianov’s modernist novel The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar (1928), and is editing and translating a volume of Tynianov’s seminal scholarly essays Pushkin and hisContemporaries.