Patrick Donald Rayfield OBE (born 12 February 1942, Oxford) is an English academic and Emeritus Professor of Russian and Georgian at Queen Mary University of London.[1] He is an author of books about Russian and Georgian literature, and about Joseph Stalin and his secret police. He is also a series editor for books about Russian writers and intelligentsia. He has translated Georgian, Russian and Uzbek poets and prose writers.

Donald Rayfield
Born1942
NationalityEnglish
Occupation(s)Professor of Georgian and Russian languages, Translator
Known forStalin and His Hangmen
Notable workKvachi Kvachantiradze
A Man Was Going Down the Road
The Literature of Georgia: A History
A Comprehensive Georgian-English Dictionary
Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia

Bibliography

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  • Dream of Lhasa: The Life of Nikolay Przhevalsky (1976)
  • The Cherry Orchard: Catastrophe and Comedy (1994) ISBN 0-8057-4451-7
  • Anton Chekhov: A Life (1997) ISBN 0-00-255503-4 (and several other reprints)
  • Understanding Chekhov: A Critical Study of Chekhov's Prose and Drama (1999)
  • The Garnett Book of Russian Verse (2000)
  • The Literature of Georgia: A History (2000)
  • Stalin and His Hangmen (2004) ISBN 0-375-50632-2 (and several other reprints)
  • A Comprehensive Georgian-English Dictionary (2006)
  • Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and the Wood Demon (2007)
  • Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia (2012)
  • ‘A Seditious and Sinister Tribe’: The Crimean Tatars and Their Khanate (Reaktion Books, 2024)

Translations from Russian

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  • Dead Souls, translation of Gogol's 1842 novel (Garnett Press, 2008; New York Review Books, 2012)
  • Kolyma Stories (first half), translation of Varlam Shalamov's stories (New York Review Books, 2018)
  • Sketches of the Criminal World: Further Kolyma Stories (New York Review Books, 2020)
  • Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk: Selected Stories of Nikolai Leskov (New York Review Books, 2020)

Translations from Georgian

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Translations from Uzbek

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References

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  1. ^ "Donald Rayfield - School of Languages, Linguistics and Film". www.qmul.ac.uk. Retrieved 25 June 2020.