Donald Rayfield

Donald Rayfield
Born	1942
Nationality	English
Occupation(s)	Professor of Georgian and Russian languages, Translator
Known for	Stalin and His Hangmen
Notable work	Kvachi 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

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. 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 translated Georgian and Russian poets and prose writers.

Bibliography

• Anton Chekhov: A Life (1997) ISBN 0-00-255503-4 (and several other reprints)
• Stalin and His Hangmen (2004) ISBN 0-375-50632-2 (and several other reprints)
• Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and the Wood Demon (2007)
• The Cherry Orchard: Catastrophe and Comedy (1994) ISBN 0-8057-4451-7
• Dream of Lhasa: The Life of Nikolay Przhevalsky (1976)
• The Garnett Book of Russian Verse (2000)
• Understanding Chekhov: A Critical Study of Chekhov's Prose and Drama
• The Literature of Georgia: A History (2000)
• A Comprehensive Georgian-English Dictionary (2006)
• Dead Souls, translation of Gogol's 1842 novel (2008; 2012)
• Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia (2012)

Translations from Georgian

• A Man Was Going Down the Road - Otar Chiladze (2012) ISBN 0956468306
• Avelum - Otar Chiladze (2013) ASIN B00DG9QLZ0
• The Story of My Life - Akaki Tsereteli (2013) ASIN B00COQSC7Q
• Kvachi Kvachantiradze - Mikheil Javakhishvili (2015) ISBN 1564788792
• Unveiling Vazha Pshavela - Vazha Pshavela, Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili, edited by Andro Semeiko (2019) ISBN 9780956468345

References

• "A Man was Going Down the Road"