Donald Rayfield

Donald Rayfield
Born	1942
Nationality	English
Occupation(s)	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.