The article deals with some ways of expressing the meaning of Swedish phrasal verbs with postverbs of direction in Dutch and Russian. The text under study is ‛Christ Legends’ by Selma Lagerlöf, a classic writer of Swedish literature, and their translation into Dutch, as well as Russian. The most productive way of rendering phrasal verbs used by both translators is by means of adverbs and locative prepositional combinations with corresponding semantics.