Tsereteli, Akaki. The Story of My Life (Chemi tavgadasavali). 1935. In Georgian.

წერეთელი, აკაკი (1840-1915). ჩემი თავგადასავალი / რედ. შ. რადიანი.
ტფილისი : სახელგამი, 1935 (სახ. 1-ლი სტ.). 104 გვ. ; 18 სმ.
სერია: მასიური ბიბლიოთეკა. ნაბეჭდი გარეკანი. ტირაჟი 10 000 ც.
მდგომარეობა კარგი: გარეკანი გაყვითლებული, კუთხეები ცვეთილი; ბლოკი მყარი, ტექსტი სრული და წასაკითხი.
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Tsereteli, Akaki (1840-1915). The Story of My Life / editor Sh. Radiani.
Tiflis : Sakhelgami (State Publishing House), 1935 (1st State Press). 104 pp. ; 18 cm.
Series: Massive Library. Paper wrappers. Print run of 10,000 copies.
Condition good: wrappers age-yellowed with worn corners; block firm, text complete and legible throughout.

Akaki Tsereteli (1840-1915) is one of the two defining figures of nineteenth-century Georgian literature alongside Ilia Chavchavadze, and is known to Georgians simply as "Akaki." Born into a noble family in the Imereti village of Skhvitori, educated at the University of St. Petersburg (Faculty of Oriental Languages, graduating 1863), he spent his childhood in the household of a peasant family - an experience that shaped his democratic social sympathies and his intimacy with Georgian folk culture. Together with Chavchavadze he led the movement known as the Tergdaleulni (Those Who Crossed the Terek), which made Georgian national identity and literary revival its principal program. His lyric poetry, including the famous "Suliko" (1895, the basis of one of the best-known Georgian folk songs), his epic poems, his satirical prose, and his novel "Bashi-Achuki" (1895-96) collectively defined the moral and aesthetic landscape of Georgian letters for two generations. His 50th anniversary as a writer in 1908 became a national celebration of extraordinary scope. Chemi Tavgadasavali (The Story of My Life), composed between 1894 and 1909, is Tsereteli's autobiographical memoir and one of the major prose works of the Tergdaleulni generation: candid, warm, and richly detailed in its account of Georgian noble and peasant society under Russian imperial rule, his education in St. Petersburg, his encounters with the leading Georgian cultural and political figures of the nineteenth century, and the development of his literary vocation. The 1935 Tiflis edition, prepared by the prominent Georgian literary scholar Shalva Radiani (1895-1974), was issued in the affordable "Massive Library" series designed to make canonical Georgian literary texts accessible to the widest readership in early Soviet Georgia.