Donald Rayfield

Patrick Donald Rayfield OBE (born 12 February 1942, Oxford, England) is an English academic and Emeritus Professor of Russian and Georgian at Queen Mary University in London. 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.