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Tsereteli Akaki
(1840—1915)

Prince Akaki Tsereteli was a prominent Georgian poet and national liberation movement figure. He was born in the village of Skhvitori (Imereti region of western Georgia) on June 9, 1840 to the prominent Georgian aristocratic family. His father was Prince Rostom Tsereteli. Following the old tradition Akaki Tsereteli spent his childhood years in the village of Savane in a peasant’s family and was brought up by a peasant nanny, all of which made him feel through the peasants’ life in Georgia. He graduated from the Kutaisi Gymnasium in 1852 and the University of Petersburg Faculty of Oriental Languages in 1863. Prince Tsereteli was a close friend of Prince Ilia Chavchavadze, Georgian progressive intellectual youth leader. The generation of 1860s led by Chavchavdze and Tsereteli protested against the Tsarist regime and campaigned for cultural revival and self-determination of the Georgians. He is an author of hundreds of patriotic, historical, lyrical and satiric poems, also humoristic stories and autobiographic novel. Akaki Tsereteli was involved actively in educational, journalistic and theatrical activities. The famous Georgian folk song Suliko is based on Akaki Tsereteli’s lyrics. He died on January 26, 1915 and was buried at the Pantheon of the Georgian Writers and Public Men on the Mt Mtatsminda in Tbilisi.

Georgia, 2000, Akaki Tsereteli

Georgia, 2002, Akaki Tsereteli

Ukraine, 2001, Akaki Tsereteli

USSR, 1960, Akaki Tsereteli

Ukraine, 2001.12.19, Kiev. Tsereteli, Shevchenko

USSR, 1960, Akaki Tsereteli

USSR, 1979.10.10, Chavchavadze and Tsereteli monument in Tbilisi

USSR, 1981.10.26, Chavchavadze, Tsereteli and Baratashvili monuments in Tbilisi

USSR, 1984.12.25, Chavchavadze and Tsereteli monument in Tbilisi

USSR, 1990, 150th Birth Anniversary of Akakiy Tsereteli