Born in 1891, in the Republic of Georgia, Galaktion Tabidze was a major Georgian poet in the early 20th century. Much of his work was written during periods of strictly enforced censorship that demanded highly patriotic and communistic themes, by Soviet Union however, his poems included local folklore, loss and regret, bitterness, isolation, lovelessness, love […]
Giorgi Leonidze (1899 – 1966) was a Georgian poet, prose writer, and literary scholar. He graduated from the Tbilisi Theological Seminary in 1918 and continued his studies at the Tbilisi State University. His first poems appeared in Georgian press in 1911, and then, briefly collaborated with the Symbolist group Blue Horns. His real talent emerged
Count Davit Guramishvili (1705 – 1792) was a Georgian poet who wrote the finest piece of pre-Romantic Georgian literature. He made eighty-seven years of his tragic and turbulent life into one cycle of autobiographical poetry, the ‘Davitiani’, which he sent to Georgia through a Georgian embassy. In 1727 Guramishvili was kidnapped by the tribesmen from
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Konstantine Gamsakhurdia (1893 – 1975) was a Georgian writer and public figure. Gamsakhurdia received his early education at the Kutaisi gymnasium and then studied in St. Petersburg. He spent most of the World War I years in Germany, France, and Switzerland, taking his doctorate at Berlin University in 1918. Gamsakhurdia published his first poems and
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Shota Rustaveli (1160 – 1220), known simply as Rustaveli, was a medieval Georgian poet. He is considered to be the pre-eminent poet of the Georgian Golden Age and one of the greatest contributors to Georgian literature. Rustaveli was the author of ‘The Knight in the Panther’s Skin’, which is considered to be a Georgian national
Monument to Akaki Tsereteli and Ilia Chavchavadze, famous Georgian poets and national figures They did a lot for the enlightenment and revival of the Georgian people, as well as the self-identification of Georgians. Tsereteli died 2 years before the revolution, the second was killed. They were friends and had many followers. Prince Ilia Chavchavadze (1837
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Mother of Georgia as known Kartlis Deda is a monument in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi. The statue was erected on the top of Sololaki hill next to the Narikala Fortress in 1958, the year Tbilisi celebrated its 1500th anniversary. Prominent Georgian sculptor Elguja Amashukeli designed the twenty-meter aluminum figure of a woman in Georgian national dress.
Nodar Dumbadze Memorial Written by Giorgi Kekelidze Narrated in Georgian by Lasha Gurgenidze Narrated in English by Nika Gordeziani Nodar Dumbadze (1928 – 1984) was a popular Georgian writer and one of the most popular authors in the late 20th-century Georgia. His first poems and humorous stories appeared in the Georgian press in 1950. He
