Donald Rayfield
1942-02-12
Patrick Donald Rayfield (born 12 February 1942, Oxford) is a British academic and Emeritus Professor of Russian and Georgian at Queen Mary University of London. 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.
Books
- Close Reading of Fifty-Three Poems by Semyon Izrailevich Lipkin
- Testimony
- Sketches of the Criminal World
- Understanding Chekhov
- Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and the Wood Demon
- The Confessions of Victor X
- Chekhov, the Evolution of His Art
- Anton Chekhov
- The Literature of Georgia
- A Comprehensive Georgian-English Dictionary
- The Garnett Book of Russian Verse
- Edge of Empires
- The Cherry Orchard
- 'A Seditious and Sinister Tribe'
- The Dream of Lhasa
- Stalin and His Hangmen
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