Russian to English book translation
AI translation, checked passage by passage. Upload your book — epub, mobi, fb2, docx, txt or pdf — and see the exact price and a free translated sample of your own book before you pay anything. Every passage is translated, then read again against your original, and translated again wherever that check finds a problem.
Your translation comes back as an epub, the most stable format. Word, Kindle and PDF are available at download.
From a classic, translated by this pipeline
The opening of Anna Karenina («Анна Каренина») by Leo Tolstoy, translated Russian → English by the same pipeline that will translate your book. Nobody polished this by hand.
Russian original
Our English translation
Все счастливые семьи похожи друг на друга, каждая несчастливая семья несчастлива по-своему.
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Все смешалось в доме Облонских. Жена узнала, что муж был в связи с бывшею в их доме француженкою-гувернанткой, и объявила мужу, что не может жить с ним в одном доме. Положение это продолжалось уже третий день и мучительно чувствовалось и самими супругами, и всеми членами семьи, и домочадцами.
Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys' house. The wife had discovered that the husband was having an affair with a French governess who had been in their house, and had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This state of things had now lasted three days, and was painfully felt by the married couple themselves, as well as by all the members of the family and household members.
What a faithful English edition must get right
Russian dialogue dashes and «guillemets» become English quotation marks, with the same single or double style used through the whole book.
Russian names come in many forms: Katya, Katenka and Ekaterina Alexandrovna are one person. English has nothing like this. We choose one rule for each character and keep it, so the reader does not think there are three people.
One spelling system for names and places, used everywhere — not Gogol on one page and Gogol' on the next.
Before translation starts, we build a translator's brief from your whole book: names, terms, tone, typography. You read it and can change it. The brief then guides every chapter. Each passage is read again, independently, against your original, and translated again where that check finds a problem. The finished book gets one whole-book read for continuity. Every change goes into your quality report.
What it costs
A normal 80,000-word novel from Russian to English costs about $11.99 (Standard) or $23.99 (Premium). Your exact price is counted from your own book — we open it and count every word before quoting — and you see that price, and the free sample, before you pay anything. Prices for other book sizes.
Questions
How much does it cost to translate a book from Russian to English?
From $6.99; a typical 80,000-word novel is about $11.99 on Standard. The exact price is computed from your actual book and shown before you pay — never after.Can I see the quality before paying?
Yes — an excerpt from the middle of your own book, translated and reviewed free, with a report of what the review changed. You judge on your book, not a marketing demo.What formats do you take, and what do I get back?
epub, mobi, azw, azw3, fb2, txt, docx or pdf in; a finished epub back, with Word, Kindle and PDF conversions on the download page. Layout, images and formatting are preserved.How is the translation checked?
Every passage is translated following a book-specific translator's brief, then independently re-read against your original; whatever that check flags is re-translated and checked again. The finished book then gets one whole-book read for continuity. Every change becomes your quality report.British or American English?
Your choice. Spelling, vocabulary and punctuation style are written in the translator's brief that you read before translation starts.What happens to my book files?
Never used for AI training, never published, auto-deleted after 30 days by a storage lifecycle policy.Also: English to Russian · English to Spanish · English to German · English to French · English to Portuguese · English to Romanian · English to Chinese (Simplified) · English to Japanese · English to Italian · English to Polish · English to Ukrainian — every language we translate, or pick any pair on the home page.