Donald Rayfield
Author · 6 books
Donald Rayfield is an emeritus professor of Russian and Georgian at Queen Mary University of London. He translated Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls and Varlam Shalamov’s Kolyma Stories and Sketches of the Criminal World for NYRB Classics.
Series
Books

Edge of Empires
A History of Georgia
2012

The Dream of Lhasa
The Life of Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839-1888), Explorer of Central Asia
2013

Understanding Chekhov
A Critical Study Of Chekhov's Prose And Drama
1999

Anton Chekhov
1997

Stalin and His Hangmen
The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him
2004

The Cherry Orchard
Catastrophe and Comedy
1994