| Donald Rayfield | |
| Birth Date: | 1942 |
| Nationality: | English |
| Occupation: | Professor of Georgian and Russian languages, Translator |
| Known For: | Stalin and His Hangmen |
| Notable Works: | Kvachi Kvachantiradze A Man Was Going Down the Road 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.
A Life (1997) (and several other reprints)