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Besarion Gabashvili

Died in 1791

Besarion Gabashvili, known as Besiki, born in Tbilisi in 1750, was the son of Zakaria Gabashvili, a writer and confessor at the court of Teimuraz II, and was raised and educated at the palace of Kartli-Kakheti. His father, who had taken up the fight against Catholicos Anton I, restored in 1764, and against King Erekle II, was arrested that same year, declared a corrupter of the faith by a council, anathematised and stripped of the priesthood. A poet and politician, the son died on 4 February 1791 at Iasi, in Moldavia, where a diplomatic mission, which he had just brought to a conclusion, had taken him.

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