lingvo.wikisort.org - ResearcherPatrick 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 and Russian poets and prose writers.
British academic and translator (born 1942)
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Born | 1942 |
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Nationality | English |
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Occupation | Professor of Georgian and Russian languages, Translator |
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Known for | Stalin and His Hangmen |
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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 |
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Bibliography
- Dream of Lhasa: The Life of Nikolay Przhevalsky (1976)
- The Cherry Orchard: Catastrophe and Comedy (1994) ISBN 0-8057-4451-7
- Anton Chekhov: A Life (1997) ISBN 0-00-255503-4 (and several other reprints)
- 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) ISBN 0-375-50632-2 (and several other reprints)
- A Comprehensive Georgian-English Dictionary (2006)
- Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and the Wood Demon (2007)
- Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia (2012)
Translations from Russian
- Dead Souls, translation of Gogol's 1842 novel (2008; 2012)
- Kolyma Stories, translation of Varlam Shalamov's stories (Vol. 1, 2018; Vol. 2, 2020)
- Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk: Selected Stories of Nikolai Leskov (2020)
Translations from Georgian
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На других языках
- [en] Donald Rayfield
[ru] Рейфилд, Дональд
Дональд Рейфилд (англ. Donald Rayfield, род. 12 февраля 1942, Оксфорд, Великобритания) — британский литературовед, специалист по русской литературе конца XIX — середины XX века, грузинской литературе, фольклоре и лексикологии. Доктор философии (1978).
Профессор-эмерит русской и грузинской литературы Колледжа королевы Марии Лондонского университета.
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