Tsintadze, P. The Knight in the Panther's Skin: Worldview and Artistic Construction. A Critical Study (Vepkhis-Tqaosani: Msoflmkhedveloba da Mkhatvrul Konstruktsia. Kritikuli Etiudi). 1936. In Georgian.

ცინცაძე, პ. ვეფხის-ტყაოსანი : მსოფლმხედველობა და მხატვრული კონსტრუქცია : კრიტიკული ეტიუდი / სსრკ მეცნიერებათა აკადემია, საქართველოს ფილიალი.
ტფილისი : სსრკ მეცნიერებათა აკადემიის საქართველოს ფილიალის გამოცემა, 1936. 109 გვ. ; 22 სმ.
მაგარი ყდა (ქაღალდით გარეკანი), ილუსტრირებული ფორზაცით. ტირაჟი 1 500 ც.
ყდა - კარგი: კუთხეები ცვეთილი, ზედა კიდე გამუქებული; გარეკანის ნახატი ნათელი. ბლოკი - კარგი: მნიშვნელოვანი ასაკობრივი გაყვითლება, ტექსტი სრული.
***
Tsintadze, P. The Knight in the Panther's Skin: Worldview and Artistic Construction. A Critical Study / Georgian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Tbilisi : Georgian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, 1936. 109 pp. ; 22 cm.
Hardcover (paper-covered boards) with full-color illustrated endpapers. Print run of 1,500 copies.
Binding good: corners worn; top edge darkened; cover design bright and fully intact. Text block good: heavy age-toning throughout; text complete and legible.

A rare Stalinist-era critical study of the Vepkhiskhosani ("The Knight in the Panther's Skin"), the twelfth-century epic poem by Shota Rustaveli that stands as the central monument of the Georgian literary tradition. Published in 1936 - one year before the major all-Union celebrations of the 750th anniversary of the poem, which were declared a national jubilee under Stalin's personal patronage and generated an extraordinary wave of scholarship, translations, and commemorative editions - this monograph by P. Tsintadze examines the poem's worldview and artistic construction from a Marxist-materialist perspective, analyzing its socio-ideological background, treatment of feminine honor, themes of friendship and loyalty, the poem's principal heroes, and its overall artistic-ideological synthesis. It is an early specimen of the Soviet Rustaveli scholarship that dominated Georgian literary studies of the 1930s-1940s, characterized by the application of class analysis and historical materialism to the medieval courtly epic. The volume was issued by the Georgian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, which had been established in Tbilisi in 1933 as the principal Soviet academic institution for Georgian studies and was the immediate predecessor of the independent Georgian Academy of Sciences founded in 1941. Its print run of 1,500 copies is exceptionally small even for an Academy specialist monograph, and the volume is rarely encountered on the market.