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.^[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.

Bibliography

• 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

• 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

• 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

Translations from Uzbek

• The Devils' Dance - Hamid Ismailov (2018) - with poetry translated by John Farndon
• Manaschi - Hamid Ismailov (2021)

References

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

• "A Man was Going Down the Road"