Giorgi Eristavi

Giorgi Eristavi was born in 1813 in the village of Odzisi, near Dusheti, into a princely family that had held the duchy of Ksani. Trained in Tiflis and Moscow, on his return home he joined the secret society preparing the uprising of 1832, spent a year in prison and four years as an infantryman in Wilno, where he learned Polish and absorbed Mickiewicz's romanticism. Back in Georgia in 1842, he founded the Georgian-language theatre and the country's first literary journal, wrote comedies and translated Russian plays. He died on 9 September 1864.

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• Poetryოსური მოთხრობაGiorgi Eristavi · 1832not translated into EnglishLiterature