350px, Statue of Yetim Gurdji in Old Tbilisi. Ietim Gurji ( ka, იეთიმ გურჯი, meaning "Georgian orphan" in

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, real name: Ietim Ibrahim Dabghishvili ( ka, იეთიმ იბრაიმის ძე დაბღიშვილი),

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as Harutyun Grigoryevich Aghajanov (russian: Арутюн Григорьевич Агаджанов); 1875 in

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– 15 July 1940) was a

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poet. He wrote in

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languages. His poetry mainly was distributed orally, by songs, which he created and performed himself. Main motifs of his poetry were the lives of late 19th and early 20th century Old Tbilisi bohemians, along with workers, peasants and

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. His first book "Poem of Anabadji" was published in 1909, collection of short poems "New Poet and Songs" - 1911, "Yetim's New Poems" - 1913, "Tango" - 1914. In 1928 Ioseb Grishashvili and in 1958 Andro Tevzadze published his "Selected Poems". Yetim Gurdji was buried in the Didube Pantheon of writers and public men, Tbilisi.

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1875 births 1949 deaths Burials at Didube Pantheon 20th-century poets from Georgia (country) Writers from Tbilisi Male poets from Georgia (country) 20th-century male writers {{Georgia-poet-stub