This comparative corpus analysis is based on ten Russian translations (1909-2000) of Lewis Carrol’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland written in the Victorian Era, a distant and a little-known epoch for the target audience of Russian children and adults. The concept of acknowledging different cultural needs in translating personal names is the backbone of this study, which will address the questions of how the translators approached the original text, how they rendered some of the proper names, and how they adapted or changed these names to replicate the effect created in the original text. Different Russian translators preferred different approaches to what might be called the ‘Russian Alice’ versus ‘Victorian British Alice’ dilemma. The primary goal is to examine solutions offered by Russian translators to achieve recognizability of personal names which were most likely unfamiliar to Russian readers.