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Mikheil Javakhishvili

Died in 1937

Mikheil Javakhishvili, born Adamashvili in 1880 in the village of Tsereakvi, studied horticulture in Yalta and had to give it up after the death of his family. Returning to Georgia, he published his first short story in 1903, then articles against the tsarist regime that forced him into exile in France, where he studied art and political economy. Back in his country, he was arrested and then banished, and he resumed his work only after 1917. Refusing to write according to the official norms, he was arrested on 14 August 1937, tortured in the presence of Beria and shot on 30 September.

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