Alexander Kazbegi

Alexander Kazbegi, born Chopikashvili on 20 January 1848 in Stepantsminda, in Khevi, was descended from the lord who collected tolls on the Caucasus military road. He studied in Tiflis, Saint Petersburg and Moscow, then, back in his homeland, became a shepherd to share the life of the mountain people and came to know their language, their hospitality and their customary law at first hand. A journalist, novelist, playwright and actor, he lost his reason in his last years. He died in Tiflis in 1893; his coffin was carried over the Jvari Pass to his village.

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• Novelმამის მკვლელიAlexander Kazbegi · 1882not translated into EnglishLiterature