Peter Carson (3 October 1938 – 9 January 2013) was an English publisher, editor and translator of Russian literature.
[1][2] He was educated at Eton College and learned Russian at home from his mother and during his National Service years at the Joint Services School for Linguists.
[3][1][4] He translated two titles for Penguin Classics: a collection of five of Anton Chekhov's plays (Ivanov; The Seagull; Uncle Vanya; Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard) and Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev.
Donald Rayfield wrote in the Times Literary Supplement: "If you want to get as close as an English reader can to enjoying Turgenev, Carson is probably the best".
[6] He completed translations of Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich, a story of a dying man, and A Confession shortly before his death; these were published together by Liveright in 2014 as The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession.