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Filmmaker · Georgia

Kote Marjanishvili

Died in 1933

Kote Marjanishvili, born on 9 June 1872 in Kvareli, in Kakheti, the son of a lieutenant colonel in the Russian army who was also a translator, began in the amateur theatre of his town, went through the stages of Telavi and Kutaisi, then worked in Russia, where the success of a Gorky production made him known to Stanislavski. He returned to Georgia in 1922, refounded the theatre there and formed a company that now bears his name. Named People's Artist of Georgia in 1931, he died in Moscow in 1933 and is buried in the Mtatsminda Pantheon.

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