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.
Books in order of publication:
Dream of Lhasa: The Life of Nikolay Przhevalsky (1976)
The Cherry Orchard: Catastrophe and Comedy (1994)
Anton Chekhov: A Life (1997)
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)
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)
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