Petre Gruzinsky ( ka, პეტრე გრუზინსკი) (28 March 1920 – 13 August 1984) was a

Georgian Georgian may refer to: Common meanings * Anything related to, or originating from Georgia (country) ** Georgians, an indigenous Caucasian ethnic group ** Georgian language, a Kartvelian language spoken by Georgians **Georgian scripts, three scrip ...

poet and Honored Artist of the

Georgian SSR The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (Georgian SSR; ka, საქართველოს საბჭოთა სოციალისტური რესპუბლიკა, tr; russian: Грузинская Советская Соц� ...

(1979). He was a son of Prince Pyotr Aleksandrovich Gruzinsky and a scion of King

George XII of Georgia George XII ( ka, გიორგი XII, ''Giorgi XII''), sometimes known as George XIII (November 10, 1746 – December 28, 1800), of the House of Bagrationi, was the second and last King of the Kingdom of Kartl-Kakheti in eastern Georgia from ...

Biography

Gruzinsky was a descendant of the

Kakheti Kakheti ( ka, კახეთი ''K’akheti''; ) is a region (mkhare) formed in the 1990s in eastern Georgia from the historical province of Kakheti and the small, mountainous province of Tusheti. Telavi is its capital. The region comprises eigh ...

an branch (

Gruzinsky Gruzinsky (russian: Грузинский; ka, გრუზინსკი) was a title and later the surname of two different princely lines of the Bagrationi dynasty of Georgia, both of which received it as subjects of the Russian Empire. The n ...

) of the

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, a former royal house of Georgia. His grandfather Alexander Bagration-Gruzinsky was son of

Prince Bagrat of Georgia Bagrat ( ka, ბაგრატი) (8 May 1776 – 8 May 1841) was a Georgian royal prince (''batonishvili'') of the House of Bagrationi and an author. A son of King George XII of Georgia, Bagrat occupied important administrative posts in the la ...

, the fourth son of King George XII of Georgia. Petre's literary career began in 1933, under the penname of Tamarashvili. Gruzinsky gained popularity as an author of lyrics for the songs by

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, Giorgi Tsabadze, and

Giya Kancheli Gia Kancheli ( ka, გია ყანჩელი; 10 August 1935 – 2 October 2019) was a Georgian composer. He was born in Tbilisi, Georgia but resided in Belgium. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Kancheli lived first in B ...

, including for Lagidze's ''Tbiliso'' (Song of Tbilisi), one of the best known Georgian songs, and for the cult

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comedy ''

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'' (1977). Gruzinsky was arrested and tried on charges of anti-

activities and monarchist plot in 1945 and confined in a mental facility until released in 1948. Many of his literary works afterwards were published under the names of Gruzinsky's wife Liya Mgeladze and the journalist Irakli Gotsiridze. His first collection of poetry was published posthumously, in 2001. Gruzinsky died in 1984. He is buried at the

Svetitskhoveli Cathedral The Svetitskhoveli Cathedral ( ka, სვეტიცხოვლის საკათედრო ტაძარი, ''svet'icxovlis sak'atedro t'adzari''; literally the Cathedral of the Living Pillar) is an Orthodox Christian cathedral located ...

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Family

Petre Gruzinsky was married twice. He married in 1939 Ketevan Siradze (born 9 April 1915), daughter of Filimon Siradze, and had a daughter: * Dali Bagration-Gruzinsky (born 1939). She married first at Tiflis, Bruno Babunoshvili (1938-1993). Secondly, she married Zurab Vakhtangovitch Kurashvili (born 1950). In 1944, Gruzinsky married his second wife, Liya Mgeladze (born 19 August 1925,

Manglisi Manglisi ( ka, მანგლისი, ) is a '' daba'' (townlet) in the Tetritsqaro Municipality, Kvemo Kartli region of Georgia. As of the 2014 census, it had the population of 1,441. With a recorded history going back to the 4th century, Mangl ...

), daughter of Dimitri Mgeladze (1889–1979), the literary scholar and former member of the government of the

Democratic Republic of Georgia The Democratic Republic of Georgia (DRG; ka, საქართველოს დემოკრატიული რესპუბლიკა ') was the first modern establishment of a republic of Georgia, which existed from May 1918 to ...

, and wife. They had two children: * Mzia Bagration-Gruzinsky (born 1945). *

Nugzar Bagration-Gruzinsky Prince Nugzar Petres dze Bagration-Gruzinsky ( ka, ნუგზარ პეტრეს ძე ბაგრატიონ-გრუზინსკი) (born 25 August 1950, in Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic) is the head of the depo ...

(born 1950), a theatre director and claimant to the headship of the royal house of Georgia.

Honours

* Honoured Art Worker (1979).

References

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Petre Gruzinsky Petre Gruzinsky ( ka, პეტრე გრუზინსკი) (28 March 1920 – 13 August 1984) was a Georgia (country), Georgian poet and Honored Artist of the Georgian SSR (1979). He was a son of Prince Pyotr Aleksandrovich Gruzinsky and a ...

Burials at Svetitskhoveli Cathedral 20th-century poets from Georgia (country) Soviet poets

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