{"product_id":"tsereteli-akaki-my-life-story-chemi-tavgadasavali-tbilisi-1937-in-georgian","title":"Tsereteli, Akaki. My Life Story (Chemi Tavgadasavali). Tbilisi, 1937. In Georgian.","description":"\u003cp\u003eწერეთელი, აკაკი (1840-1915). ჩემი თავგადასავალი.\u003cbr\u003eთბილისი (ტიტულის გვერდზე: ტფილისი) : სახელგამი, 1937 (პოლიგრაფკომბინატი). 126 გვერდი ; 22 სმ.\u003cbr\u003eსერია: სასკოლო ბიბლიოთეკა : მხატვრული ლიტერატურა.\u003cbr\u003eრედაქტორი პროფ. ს. ჯანაშია ; კორექტორი და გამომშვები ალ. ხხენკელი. ტირაჟი 15 000 ც. \u003cbr\u003eგამომცემლის ორიგინალური მაგარი კარტონაჟის ყდა.\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eTsereteli, Akaki (1840-1915). My Life Story (Chemi Tavgadasavali).\u003cbr\u003eTbilisi: Sakhelgami, 1937 (printed at the Poligrafkombinat). 126 pp. ; 22 cm.\u003cbr\u003eSeries: School Library: Literary Works.\u003cbr\u003eEdited by Prof. Simon Janashia [the noted Georgian historian and academician]; proofreader and production editor Al. Khkhenkeli. Print run of 15,000 copies. .\u003cbr\u003ePublisher's original hardcover boards (cardboard case binding).\u003cbr\u003eCondition: binding good: brownish-yellow staining to front and rear boards; corners lightly worn. Text block good: clean and complete, with light toning to edges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA 1937 Soviet \"School Library\" edition of the celebrated memoirs of Akaki Tsereteli (1840-1915), the poet, prose writer, and public figure who, alongside Ilia Chavchavadze, stands as one of the two foundational figures of the modern Georgian literary and national revival movement of the nineteenth century. \"Chemi Tavgadasavali\" recounts, in Akaki's characteristically warm and humorous first-person voice, his childhood and student years in nineteenth-century Imereti, offering a vivid ethnographic and social portrait of Georgian provincial gentry life, the traditional educational system, and family customs of the period — described by later readers as a kind of cinematic time-travel into vanished nineteenth-century Georgia. The present edition, part of a \"School Library\" series issued by the State Publishing House of Soviet Georgia, was edited under the supervision of Simon Janashia (1900-1947), later a leading Georgian historian and academician who would go on to direct the Institute of History of the Georgian Academy of Sciences. Beyond the core autobiographical narrative, this edition appends a sequence of short memoir-portraits of prominent contemporaries of Akaki's youth and literary circle — Ivane Kereselidze, Alexandre Orbeliani, Giorgi Tsereteli, colleagues from the journal Tsiskari, Sergei Meskhi, Niko Nikoladze, Alexandre Qazbegi, Grigol Orbeliani, and Dimitri Qipiani — together forming a curated gallery of the founding generation of modern Georgian letters, framed for a new Soviet school readership.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44546136834090,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/IMG_8426_9751d672-37c8-4d5c-872b-62dbd47a4a84.jpg?v=1783530143","url":"https:\/\/stanzararebooks.com\/products\/tsereteli-akaki-my-life-story-chemi-tavgadasavali-tbilisi-1937-in-georgian","provider":"Stanza Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}