Nikoloz Baratashvili
ნიკოლოზ ბარათაშვილი
Nikoloz Baratashvili | |
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Tiflis, Georgia Governorate, Russian Empire | |
Died | 21 October 1845 Ganja, Russian Empire | (aged 27)
Resting place | Mtatsminda Pantheon, Tbilisi |
Occupation | Writer, poet |
Nationality | Georgian |
Genre | poetry |
Literary movement | Romanticism |
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Prince Nikoloz "Tato" Baratashvili (
Biography
Nikoloz Baratashvili, affectionately known as Tato (ტატო), was born in
Baratashvili graduated, in 1835, from a Tiflis gymnasium for nobility, where he was tutored by
Baratashvili died of malaria in Ganja, unmourned and unpublished, at the age of 27. Baratashvili's influence was long delayed, but as the next generation of Georgian literati rediscovered his lyrics, he was posthumously published, between 1861 and 1876, and idolized.[1] Baratashvili's reinterment from Ganja to Tbilisi in 1893 turned into a national celebration. Since 1938, his remains have lain in the Mtatsminda Pantheon in Tbilisi.
Works
A key insight into the
During his short creative life (1833–45) Baratashvili developed difficult concepts of art and ideas. In the words of the British scholar Donald Rayfield, Baratashvili "evolved a language all his own, obscure but sonorous, laconically modern, sometimes splendidly medieval, with pseudo-archaisms."[1] In his earlier poem Dusk on Mtatsminda (შემოღამება მთაწმინდაზე, shemoghameba mt'ats'mindaze; 1833–36) the reader can feel a romantic aspiration to be freed of earthly burdens and joined with secret natural forces. Baratashvili's love-poetry reached its acme with his unhappy obsessive love for Princess Chavchavadze and is impregnated with an idea of the orphaned soul as in The Orphaned Soul (სული ობოლი, suli oboli; 1839).[5] Despaired of human happiness, Baratashvili admires the superhuman historical figures, such as Erekle II and Napoleon, whom he deems to be beyond joy and misery.[6] Among his most significant works are the poems The Evil Spirit (სული ბოროტი, suli boroti; 1843), Thought on the Riverside of Mtkvari (ფიქრი მტკვრის პირას, p'ik'ri mtkvris piras; 1837), and Pegasus (მერანი, Merani; 1842). This latter poem fascinated later Georgian poets as a mystic, apocalyptic vision of the future. In it the omnipotent mind, inspired by faith, calls for the poem's lyrical hero to knowingly sacrifice himself in the name of his brethren. The tragic optimism of Merani is a striking manifestation of the romantic spirit: active, life-asserting, and full of revolutionary aspirations. Merani is a prominent work of Georgian Romanticism both from an ethical-philosophical view, and from an artistic-aesthetic point of view.
Poetry
- "Do not say something, sweetheart, your lover thy heart, certainly"
- "Turned out to be illuminated in the east, like the sun alive"
- "Blew the rudy wind , led me like a Flower"
- "Thought on the Riverside of Mtkvari"
- "I bless the day of my birth, I am happy, cup"
- "The grace of your Creator, beautiful, woman shavtvalebiano"
- "Merani"
- "I am happy with you presence"
- "My lover, I remember your eyes"
- "The grace of your Creator, beautiful, blackeyed woman"
- "Will Dry My Tears"
- "Colour of the sky, blue colour"
- "I have found a real church, standing in the wilderness"
- "The fate of Kartli" ("Bedi kartlisa")
- "Nightingale on the rose"
- "Duke barataevis azarpeshazed”
- "Nathan, the singer on the piano”
- "To Napoleon”
- "War of the nobleman-peasant-to-face”
- "Tomb of King Irakli”
- "Earring”
- "Orphan spirit”
- "Hyacinth and a bit”
- "Thoughts on the edge”
- "Twilight mtatsmidazed”
- "To my friends”
- "My Pray”
- "To my stars”
- "Babies”
- "Chinari”
- "Chonguri”
- "Mysterious voice”
Baratashvili Bridge, an avenue in Tbilisi are named after the poet with his monument standing in the center district of the capital of Georgia.[7]
Ancestry
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Notes
- ^ a b c Rayfield, p. 145.
- ^ Nechkina, Militsa Russia in the Nineteenth Century: Volume II of The History of Russia, Volume 1 p.449
- ^ Степанов, Теймураз Тбилиси, легенда и быль 1968
- ^ a b Suny, p. 124.
- ^ Rayfield, pp. 145–6.
- ^ Rayfield, p. 146.
- ^ "Tbilisi Travel Guide. Tourist Routes". Retrieved 2011-05-18.
References
- (in English) ISBN 0-7007-1163-5.
- (in English) ISBN 0-253-20915-3.
- (in German) Gaga Shurgaia (Hrsg., 2006) Nikoloz Baratasvili: Ein georgischer Dichter der Romantik. Königshausen und Neumann, Würzburg, ISBN 3-8260-2857-0.
Links
Nikoloz Baratashvili. Six poems translated into English by Venera Urushadze (audio)