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Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani

Died in 1725

Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani was born on 4 November 1658 in Tandzia, near Bolnisi, into a great princely family of Kartli. Raised at the court of King George XI, he was educated in the great library of the palace and was the tutor and adviser of his nephew, the future Vakhtang VI. A monk under the name Saba, he went on an embassy to Louis XIV and Pope Clement XI to obtain the release of the king, held in Persia, and wrote an account of this journey. A lexicographer, he compiled the great Georgian dictionary. He died in Moscow on 26 January 1725.

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