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Donald Rayfield

Bio

Donald Rayfield is Emeritus Professor of Russian and Georgian at the University of London. In addition to his definitive biography of Chekhov (reissued in Faber Finds), his books include The Dream of Lhasa: The Life of Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839-88), Explorer of Central Asia and Stalin and His Hangmen. His 'superb new translation' (William Boyd - Guardian) of Gogol's Dead Souls was published in 2008.

Donald Rayfield Books

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Smoke

Ivan Turgenev
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Manaschi

Hamid Ismailov
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Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

Nikolai Leskov
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Sketches of the Criminal World

Varlam Shalamov
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Kolyma Stories

Varlam Shalamov
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Dead Souls

Nikolai Gogol
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Stalin and His Hangmen

Donald Rayfield
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