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Vazha-Pshavela

Died in 1915

Luka Razikashvili, known as Vazha-Pshavela, was born in Chargali in 1861, into a family of priests from the mountain province of Pshavi. He studied in Saint Petersburg, then returned to live in the mountains as a peasant and schoolteacher, refusing positions in the city. He drew his narrative poems from the customs and myths of the mountain people, setting the moral purity of the Pshavs against what he regarded as a false civilisation. He died in Tbilisi in 1915 and is buried in the Mtatsminda Pantheon; a museum has been dedicated to him in his village since 1961.

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