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Paolo Iashvili

Died in 1937

Paolo Iashvili, born in June 1895 in Argveti, in the Sachkhere district, the son of a pharmacist known throughout western Georgia, entered the classical gymnasium of Kutaisi in 1900, where Valerian Gaprindashvili and Titsian Tabidze were among his schoolmates, then studied at a private gymnasium in Anapa. He published from 1911, left in 1913 for Paris to study for two years at the art institute of the Louvre, and on his return, in 1915 in Kutaisi, founded the order of the Blue Horns. Pressed to write an article declaring his friend Tabidze an enemy of the people, he shot himself with a rifle at the Writers' House on 22 July 1937.

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