Nikoloz Baratashvili

Nikoloz Baratashvili was born in Tbilisi on 4 December 1817, into a princely family without fortune; his mother descended from King Heraclius II and his uncle was the poet Grigol Orbeliani. An infirmity closed the military career to him, and the money was lacking to send him to study in Russia: he entered the imperial administration and served far from the capital. Nothing he wrote appeared in his lifetime; his poems circulated in manuscript. He died in Ganja on 21 October 1845, at the age of twenty-seven, and has rested since 1938 in the Mtatsminda Pantheon.

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• Poetryბედი ქართლისაNikoloz Baratashvili · 1839not translated into EnglishLiterature