The name of the "translator" didn't strike me as one that a native speaker of either Russian or English would have.
Sure enough:
I have made use of machine translations for the bulk of the text, and the results are quite satisfactory. At times, I have used several translation services to ensure I am on the right track and that the meaning is not lost in translation. Though, of course, there might be places where I have not translated correctly. I learnt to read the Russian in a very rudimentary way in the process.
Sure enough:
Fascinating!