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Vazha-Pshavela
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Vazha-Pshavela (), simply referred to as Vazha () (14 July 1861 – 10 July 1915), is the pen name of the Georgian poet and writer Luka Razikashvili ().
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Vazha-Pshavela, born Luka Razikashvili on 26 July 1861 in Chargali, was a Georgian poet, teacher, translator, and playwright. A citizen of the Russian Empire, he was educated at the Transcaucasian Teachers Seminary and the Faculty of Law at Saint Petersburg State University. His native language was Georgian, and he is described in the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.
He is the author of notable works including *Host and Guest*, *Sтихотворения и Поэмы*, *9 motʻxroba*, *Sabšvo motʻxrobebi*, *Stikhotvorenii︠a︡ i poėmy*, and *Izbrannai︠a︡ proza*. Vazha-Pshavela died on 10 July 1915 in Tbilisi and was buried at the Mtatsminda Pantheon.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 26 July 1861
- Died
- 10 July 1915
- Works
- 24
Top works
- Стихотворения и Поэмы
- 9 motʻxroba
- Sabšvo motʻxrobebi
- Stikhotvorenii︠a︡ i poėmy
- Izbrannai︠a︡ proza
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Chargali, Dusheti, Georgia
Vaja grew up in Pshavi, in the village of Chargali, in the small family of his father, the village priest Pavle, and his mother, Barbale Pkhikelashvili (Vazha-Pshavela brothers Bachana and Tedo Razikashvili also became famous writers). He studied at the Municipal Theological School, 1877 - 1879 - Tbilisi Teachers' Institute of the School of Civil orklasian, 1879 to Gori Teacher (saostato)…
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Key facts
- Writer.native_name
- ვაჟა
- Writer.name
- Vazha
- Writer.image
- Vazha-Pshavela.jpg
- Writer.image_size
- 240px
- Writer.caption
- Vazha in a chokha
- Writer.birth_name
- Luka Razikashvili
- Writer.birth_place
- Chargali, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire, now Georgia
- Writer.death_place
- Tbilisi, Georgia
- Writer.resting_place
- Mtatsminda Pantheon
- Writer.occupation
- Poet, short-story writer, philosopher
- Writer.genre
- epic, drama, poetry
- Writer.movement
- Modernism
- Writer.notableworks
- "Host and Guest" "Aluda Ketelauri""Bakhtrioni"
- Writer.spouse
- Tamar Didebashvili
- Writer.children
- Levan Tamar Gulkhan Vakhtang
- Writer.signature
- Vaja signature.svg
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire
- Place of birth
- Chargali
- Place of death
- Tbilisi
- Occupation
- playwright
- Languages spoken
- Georgian
- Native language
- Georgian
- Notable work
- Host and Guest
- Official website
- rustaveli.tripod.com/pshavela.html
- Image
- Vazha-Pshavela.jpg
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- Commons category
- Vazha Pshavela
- date of birth
- 1861-07-14
- date of death
- 1915-07-27
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- birth name
- ლუკა რაზიკაშვილი
- place of burial
- Mtatsminda Pantheon
- different from
- Vazha-Pshavela
- name in native language
- ვაჟა-ფშაველა
- ethnic group
- Georgians
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Life
- Works
- Selected Epic Poems
- Other Selected Poems
- Selected Short Stories
- Plays (theatre)
- Movies
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Vazha-Pshavela (), simply referred to as Vazha () (14 July 1861 – 10 July 1915), is the pen name of the Georgian poet and writer Luka Razikashvili ().
== Life == Vazha-Pshavela was born into a family of clergymen in the small village of , situated in the mountainous Pshavi province of Eastern Georgia. His appreciation of nature and hunting was influenced by his uncle, Boygar Razikashvili, with allusions to him appearing in Vazha-Pshavela’s literary work. He graduated from the Pedagogical Seminary in Gori in 1882, where he closely associated with Georgian populists (Russian term narodniki). In 1883, he entered the Faculty of Law at St. Petersburg University (Russia) as a non-credit student but returned to Georgia in 1884 due to financial constraints. Upon returning, he worked as a teacher of the Georgian language and gained prominence as a notable representative of the National-Liberation movement of Georgia.
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