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Donald Rayfield

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in Oxford, The United Kingdom

February 12, 1942

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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.

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	Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him 4.02 avg rating — 451 ratings — published 2004 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anton Chekhov 4.30 avg rating — 350 ratings — published 1997 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Edge of Empires: A History of Georgia 3.64 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	‘A Seditious and Sinister Tribe’: The Crimean Tatars and Their Khanate 4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Literature of Georgia 4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1995 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The dream of Lhasa: The life of Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839-88) explorer of Central Asia 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2013 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Understanding Chekhov: A Critical Study Of Chekhov's Prose And Drama really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1999 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Comprehensive Georgian-English Dictionary by Donald Rayfield (Editor), Shukia Apridonze (Editor), Ariane Chanturia (Editor) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and The Wood Demon really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Garnett Book of Russian Verse: A Treasury of Russian Poets from 1730 to 1996 by Donald Rayfield (editor), Jeremy Hicks (Editor), Olga Makarova (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“В одном из поздних чеховских рассказов под названием «Три года» ярко описаны переживания молодого вдумчивого человека, выходца из купеческой среды. Мы видим, насколько узнаваемы подробности - ими наполнены письма Антона, запечатлевшие муки и унижения детства: «Я помню, отец начал учить меня, или попросту говоря, бить, когда мне не было ещё пяти лет. Он сек меня розгами, драл за уши, бил по голове, и я, просыпаясь, каждое утро думал прежде всего: будут ли сегодня драть меня?»”
― Donald Rayfield, Anton Chekhov

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“best evoked in The Apocalypse of Our Time by the philosopher Vasili Rozanov in 1919, who had died that same year of emaciation in the Troitse-Sergeev monastery: La divina Commedia
With clanking screeching an iron curtain is lowered over Russian
History.”
― Donald Rayfield, Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him

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“Leonid Krasin, a factory director who became one of Lenin’s most persuasive diplomats and ruthless requisitioners, recorded: Lenin has become quite insane and if anyone has influence over him it is only “Comrade Feliks” , an even greater fanatic and, in essence, a cunning piece of work who scares Lenin with counterrevolution and the idea that this will sweep us all away, him first. And Lenin, I am finally convinced, is very much a coward, trembling for his own skin.”
― Donald Rayfield, Stalin and His Hangmen: The Tyrant and Those Who Killed for Him

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