Chabua Amirejibi

Chabua Amirejibi, born in Tbilisi in 1921 into an old princely family, saw his father, a lawyer, arrested and die during the investigation in 1938, and his mother sentenced to ten years in a camp. A student of philology, he was arrested in 1944 for belonging to a clandestine group and sentenced to twenty-five years. He escaped three times, the last under a false name that made him a factory director in Belarus, and spent sixteen years in the penal camps before being pardoned in 1959. Only then did he publish, at nearly forty, became a monk in 2010 and died in Tbilisi in 2013.

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• NovelData Tutashkhiaდათა თუთაშხიაChabua Amirejibi · 1973Literature