Biography
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 by Donald Rayfield
'A Seditious and Sinister Trib
'A Seditious and Sinister Tribe'
Close Reading of Fifty-Three P
Close Reading of Fifty-Three Poems by Semyon Izrailevich Lipkin
The Dream of Lhasa
The Literature of Georgia
A Comprehensive Georgian-Engli
A Comprehensive Georgian-English Dictionary
Stalin and His Hangmen
The Garnett Book of Russian Ve
The Garnett Book of Russian Verse
Understanding Chekhov
Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and the Wood Demon
The Confessions of Victor X
Chekhov, the Evolution of His Art
Sketches of the Criminal World
Sketches of the Criminal World