Translational pecularities of realias (on the material of B. Akunin’s novel “Azazel” and its translation into German)

Bykova L. V., Tiazhelnikova D. A.

This work is dedicated to the translational peculiarities of realias from Russian into German. The material for the study was the novel by B. Akunin “Azazel” and its translation made by Andreas Tretner. In a study all examples were divided into 4 groups. The most frequent ways of translating these realias were also identified.

Keywords:Russian, German, Akunin, “Azazel”, realias, classification, ways of translation.