Donald Rayfield

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

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.

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