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Konstantine Lortkipanidze
Konstantine Lortkipanidze ( ka, კონსტანტინე ლორთქიფანიძე, russian: link=no, Константин Лордкипанидзе; 7 January 1905 – 30 July 1986) was a Soviet and Georgian writer. Hero of Socialist Labour (1985). Life Early years Konstantine Lortkipanidze was born on 7 January 1905 in the village of Didi Jikhaishi. He attended Kutaisi Humanitarian Technical School, and graduated in 1924. That year he published his first poem. In 1926 he published his first collection of poetry. At first he was strongly influenced by the Georgian Symbolists, but soon left them and declared himself a proletarian poet. He wrote many pompous poems about the revolutionary struggle. Lortkipanidze was an active participant and agitator in the 1937 purges that led to the deaths of many of his writer colleagues, as a detailed historical study has shown. From the early 1930s he began to write only in prose. Themes in his prose works were new socia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kutais Governorate
The Kutaisi or Kutais Governorate was a province ('' guberniya'') of the Caucasus Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire. It roughly corresponded to most of western Georgia throughout most of its existence, and most of the Artvin Province (except the Hopa and Yusufeli districts) of Turkey between 1878 and 1903. Created out of part of the former Georgia-Imeretia Governorate in 1846, the governorate also included Akhaltsikhe uezd before its cession to the Tiflis Governorate in 1867. The Kutaisi Governorate bordered the Sukhumi Okrug to the northwest, the Kuban Oblast to the north, the Terek Oblast to the northeast, the Tiflis Governorate to the southeast, the Batum Oblast to the southwest, and the Black Sea to the west. The governorate was eponymously named for its administrative center, Kutais (present-day Kutaisi). History The Kutaisi Governorate was formed in 1846 as a result of the division of the Georgia-Imeretia Governorate. In 1883, the governorate included the Sukhumi Okr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
