Mgvdliashvili, Mikheil (M. M.). In Memory of Prince Akaki Rostomovich Tsereteli. Petrograd, 1915. In Russian.

[Мгвдлиашвили, Михеил] «М. М.» Памяти князя Акакия Ростомовича Церетели.
Приложение: Акакий Церетели. Воспитатель : поэма-быль / перевод с грузинского С. В. Амираджиби.
Петроград : Типография «Печатный трудъ», 1915. 62 с., 1 л. портр. ; 24 см.
Мягкая издательская обложка. Валовая выручка от продажи поступала в фонд имени Акакия. 
На передней обложке - владельческая подпись.
Обложка потёртая, с пятнами и надрывами по краям. Блок: следы намокания на значительной части листов, текст всюду читается.
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[Mgvdliashvili, Mikheil] "M. M." In Memory of Prince Akaki Rostomovich Tsereteli.
With an appendix: Akaki Tsereteli, "The Tutor": A Narrative Poem, translated from the Georgian by S. V. Amirajibi.
Petrograd: "Pechatnyi Trud" Press, 1915. 62 pp., 1 leaf with portrait ; 24 cm.
Paper publisher's wrappers. Gross proceeds from sale were designated for the Akaki Memorial Fund. 
Front wrapper bearing a previous owner's signature.
Wrappers worn, with staining and tears at the edges. Text block: moisture staining to a substantial portion of the leaves, text legible throughout.

Akaki Rostomovich Tsereteli (1840-1915), prince of an ancient Imeretian noble family and, together with Ilia Chavchavadze, one of the two central figures of the nineteenth-century Georgian national literary revival, died at his family estate at Sachkhere on 26 January 1915, an event mourned across Georgia and reported in the Russian press as a major loss to Transcaucasian cultural life. A member of the "tergdaleulebi" generation of Georgian writers educated in Russia who returned to modernize Georgian letters and awaken national consciousness, Tsereteli became one of the most beloved poets in Georgian history; his verse entered popular tradition so thoroughly that several of his poems, including the celebrated "Suliko," were set to music and are still sung today. This memorial pamphlet, published in Petrograd within months of his death under the initials "M. M." - identified as Mikheil Mgvdliashvili - was addressed explicitly to a Russian readership largely unfamiliar with Tsereteli's life and significance, and its proceeds were designated for the "Akaki Fund," a commemorative subscription established in the poet's honor. Appended to the biographical essay is a Russian translation, by S. V. Amirajibi, of Tsereteli's own narrative poem "The Tutor" (Vospitatel'), a "poema-byl'" dramatizing the moral consequences of a nobleman's upbringing, culminating in his violent death at the hands of the very dependent he had mistreated - a characteristic instance of Tsereteli's engagement with questions of feudal privilege and social responsibility in late Imperial Georgia. Issued in wrappers with a photographic portrait of the poet, the pamphlet is a scarce piece of contemporary Georgian literary memorial ephemera, catalogued today in the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia, and of interest both for its biographical content and as a rare vehicle for Tsereteli's own verse in Russian translation.