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| Sandro Shanshiashvili ({{lang-ka|სანდრო შანშიაშვილი}}) (1888-1979) was a ] poet and playwright. | '''Sandro Shanshiashvili''' ({{lang-ka|სანდრო შანშიაშვილი}}) (1888-1979) was a ] poet and playwright. | ||
| Shanshiashvili was born in the small village Jugaani near ] (then part of the ]). In the 1900s, he was noted for his dramas in verse and prose. At the same time, he engaged in revolutionary movement against the Tsarist rule and was put in prison in 1908. He then began writing long poems based on ] of ] and composed his conventionally titled book of lyrics, ''The Garden of Sadness'' (სევდის ბაღი, 1909) influenced by the 18th-century Georgian poet ] and his contemporary ] Symbolist ]. Around 1910, he was praised by critics as the most promising and the most ]anized Georgian poet. Study at ], ], and ] (1911-1914) brought more pronounced influence of Symbolist narrative poetry. During ], he joined the Georgian National Democratic Party advocating the independence from Russia and edited the newspaper '']'' and the magazine ''Merani''. In 1925, Shanshiashvili gathered twenty years of his lyrics into ''The High Road I Have Travelled'' (გავლილი გზა), followed by a series of heroic poems. At last, in 1930, he achieved fame throughout the Soviet Union with ''Anzor'', an adapted translation into a ] setting of ]’s ] play ''Armored Train 14-69'' (Бронепоезд 14-69). ], director of the ], transformed the play into a truly ] spectacle. The "left" Soviet critics immediately attacked ''Anzor'' for trivializing the revolution. In the 1930s, endangered by the ]ist ] due this ties with the purged Georgian intellectuals, he made half-hearted attempts to praise Stalin and ]. His later dramas draw factually on the misfortunes of the 18th-century Georgia and the civil war catastrophes. He was awarded the Soviet State Prize in 1949. | Shanshiashvili was born in the small village Jugaani near ] (then part of the ]). In the 1900s, he was noted for his dramas in verse and prose. At the same time, he engaged in revolutionary movement against the Tsarist rule and was put in prison in 1908. He then began writing long poems based on ] of ] and composed his conventionally titled book of lyrics, ''The Garden of Sadness'' (სევდის ბაღი, 1909) influenced by the 18th-century Georgian poet ] and his contemporary ] Symbolist ]. Around 1910, he was praised by critics as the most promising and the most ]anized Georgian poet. Study at ], ], and ] (1911-1914) brought more pronounced influence of Symbolist narrative poetry. During ], he joined the Georgian National Democratic Party advocating the independence from Russia and edited the newspaper '']'' and the magazine ''Merani''. In 1925, Shanshiashvili gathered twenty years of his lyrics into ''The High Road I Have Travelled'' (გავლილი გზა), followed by a series of heroic poems. At last, in 1930, he achieved fame throughout the Soviet Union with ''Anzor'', an adapted translation into a ] setting of ]’s ] play ''Armored Train 14-69'' (Бронепоезд 14-69). ], director of the ], transformed the play into a truly ] spectacle. The "left" Soviet critics immediately attacked ''Anzor'' for trivializing the revolution. In the 1930s, endangered by the ]ist ] due this ties with the purged Georgian intellectuals, he made half-hearted attempts to praise Stalin and ]. His later dramas draw factually on the misfortunes of the 18th-century Georgia and the civil war catastrophes. He was awarded the Soviet State Prize in 1949. | ||
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| *Rayfield, Donald (2000), ''The Literature of Georgia: A History'': 1st edition, pp. 245-6. Routledge, ISBN 0-7007-1163-5. | *Rayfield, Donald (2000), ''The Literature of Georgia: A History'': 1st edition, pp. 245-6. Routledge, ISBN 0-7007-1163-5. | ||
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Sandro Shanshiashvili (Georgian: სანდრო შანშიაშვილი) (1888-1979) was a Georgian poet and playwright.
Shanshiashvili was born in the small village Jugaani near Sighnaghi (then part of the Russian Empire). In the 1900s, he was noted for his dramas in verse and prose. At the same time, he engaged in revolutionary movement against the Tsarist rule and was put in prison in 1908. He then began writing long poems based on Greek legends of Colchis and composed his conventionally titled book of lyrics, The Garden of Sadness (სევდის ბაღი, 1909) influenced by the 18th-century Georgian poet Besiki and his contemporary French Symbolist Paul Verlaine. Around 1910, he was praised by critics as the most promising and the most Europeanized Georgian poet. Study at Berlin, Zurich, and Leipzig (1911-1914) brought more pronounced influence of Symbolist narrative poetry. During World War I, he joined the Georgian National Democratic Party advocating the independence from Russia and edited the newspaper Sakartvelo and the magazine Merani. In 1925, Shanshiashvili gathered twenty years of his lyrics into The High Road I Have Travelled (გავლილი გზა), followed by a series of heroic poems. At last, in 1930, he achieved fame throughout the Soviet Union with Anzor, an adapted translation into a Caucasian setting of Vsevold Ivanov’s civil-war play Armored Train 14-69 (Бронепоезд 14-69). Sandro Akhmeteli, director of the Rustaveli Theatre, transformed the play into a truly Wagnerian spectacle. The "left" Soviet critics immediately attacked Anzor for trivializing the revolution. In the 1930s, endangered by the Stalinist purges due this ties with the purged Georgian intellectuals, he made half-hearted attempts to praise Stalin and Beria. His later dramas draw factually on the misfortunes of the 18th-century Georgia and the civil war catastrophes. He was awarded the Soviet State Prize in 1949.
References
- Rayfield, Donald (2000), The Literature of Georgia: A History: 1st edition, pp. 245-6. Routledge, ISBN 0-7007-1163-5.