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.
^"Donald Rayfield - School of Languages, Linguistics and Film". www.qmul.ac.uk. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
Patrick DonaldRayfield OBE (born 12 February 1942, Oxford) is an English academic and Emeritus Professor of Russian and Georgian at Queen Mary University...
An Authoritative Portrait of a Tyrant and Those Who Served Him by DonaldRayfield, and the imprinted with another subtitle: Stalin and His Hangmen: The...
(Melville House, 2012) Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (2013) DonaldRayfield (2020) 2002: The Enchanted Wanderer (opera), opera by Rodion Shchedrin...
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Empires: a History of Georgia by DonaldRayfield, page 109 Edge of Empires: a History of Georgia by DonaldRayfield Histories and Eulogies of the Sovereigns...
pp. 516-517 DonaldRayfield (1998). Anton Chekhov: A Life. Northwestern University Press. pp. 269–. ISBN 978-0-8101-1795-2. DonaldRayfield (1998). Anton...
DonaldRayfield, Richard Gilman, and Eric Bentley have sought to chart the development of Chekhov's dramaturgical method through the 1890s. Rayfield cites...
death 12,733 people in all of Russia up to the end of the civil war." DonaldRayfield concurs, noting that, "Plausible evidence reveals that the actual numbers...
head of the Crimean branch of the Cheka. According to the historian DonaldRayfield, Kun and Zemlyachka were lovers, and she was "a Cheka sadist who tied...
Kolyma Stories, by Varlam Shalamov, translated from the Russian by DonaldRayfield, introduction by Alissa Valles, New York Review Books Gurov, A. I....
of the modern British scholar of Russian and Georgian literature, DonaldRayfield, "his vivid story-telling, straight in medias res, his buoyant humour...
Peace, Chekhov: A Study of the Four Major Plays (New Haven, 1983), DonaldRayfield, Understanding Chekhov: A Critical Study of Chekhov’s Prose and Drama...
town dwellers of the valleys" (Service 2005, p. 18). Furthermore, DonaldRayfield has stated that "Stalin's possibly Osetic blood is no more significant...
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(eds.). When the Elephant Broke Out of the Zoo. A Festschrift for DonaldRayfield. Stanford Slavic Studies. Vol. 39. ISBN 9781572010888. Kʻajaia, Otʻar...
rezident was General Aleksandr Mikhailovich Orlov. According to author DonaldRayfield, "Stalin, Yezhov, and Beria distrusted Soviet participants in the Spanish...
self-indulgent". Stalin's poems have been translated into English by DonaldRayfield. Bennardo, Francesco (2019). Il Diavolo e l'Artista. Le passioni artistiche...
hand ...' See the index of Stalin and His Hangmen by DonaldRayfield, 2004, Random House Rayfield 2004, pp. 317–320 "Mikhail Gorbachev | Biography, Facts...
pursuing her acting career. In 1902, Olga suffered a miscarriage; and DonaldRayfield has offered evidence, based on the couple's letters, that conception...
35. Melville 2021, p. 388. Rayfield 2013, pp. 176, 179. Rayfield 2013, p. 183. Rayfield 2013, pp. 226–227. DonaldRayfield - Edge of Empires: A History...
ISBN 9781842127261. Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, page 225. DonaldRayfield, Donald (2005). Stalin and His Hangmen: the tyrant and those who killed...
Bucharest: the Romanian Institute of Thracology, 1996. Translated by DonaldRayfield; Rapp (2003), p. 437 Flood, Finbarr Barry (2017). A Turk in the Dukhang...
twist of suspicion and brutality at the centre of his personality." DonaldRayfield described him as "exceptionally perspicacious and active," but also...
Staney Kunitz and Max Hayward, pub. Houghton Mifflin, pp. 15, 16. DonaldRayfield, "Gondla," in Neil Cornwell and Nicole Christian (eds), Reference Guide...
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