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onward! With its mystical vision of the future, it also served as a symbol of progress and eternal movement forward.
+-Merani (Pegasus). In his poems Baratashvili spoke of high moral ideals and wanted to improve society and spoke of the Georgian people’s will for national and social liberation.
Although he left behind a small body of unpublished poems when he died aged 27 he was rediscovered by later writers and became known as the “Georgian Byron” and posthumously published between 1861 and 1876. He is now the most famous Georgian poet and his works have had a huge influence on Georgian literature.
After him are Hovhannes Kajaznuni (1868), George V of Georgia (1286), Alexander Kazbegi (1848), Vyacheslav Ivankov (1940), Vasil Mzhavanadze (1902), and Vazha-Pshavela (1861).
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Among writers born in Georgia, Nikoloz Baratashvili ranks 10.
The feeling of loneliness runs thorough his early poems (Twilight over the Mtatsminda, 1836, and Reflections on the Kura's Banks, 1837) and reached its climax in the poem Lonely Soul (1839). In the poem, Baratashvili realistically evaluates King Heraclius II's decision to join Georgia to Russia as historically necessary and progressive.
Nikoloz Baratashvili renewed the poetics of Georgian verse, creating examples of reflective poems characterized by philosophical depth, enchanting plasticity, musicality, and expressiveness.
whose smiles and tears enthrall the breast;
A sight that cheers the heavy heart by cares oppressed.
My grieving soul with gladness now does seem to blend,
And yet, O Mount, your silent mourn'st, my gentle friend.
Deep silence quivered in delight as twilight dimmed the heaven's dome;
And eve's sweet star of love and dreams pursued the moon throughout the gloam.
O have you seen a virgin soul, aweary with excess of prayer?
And so the pale and languid moon came floating through the misty air.
Remembrance brings to mind again that eve in May
When twilight veiled the Holy Mount in purple gray,
When over-burdened and distressed, the soul in pain,
Found vent in thoughts that ever in my heart remain.
O lovely eve!
Baratashvili is quietly sympathetic.
1835: He graduates from school and starts work as a clerk in Ganja in Azerbaijan as the family can’t afford to send him to university. The lyrical hero of the poem, a rider on a winged horse, defies fate and rushes into the unknown distance, saying, "I am weak, but I am not a slave to my destiny." This is the impulse of a rebellious, freedom-loving personality, a readiness for self-sacrifice, a hymn to the free and powerful spirit of Man.
The symbolism of "Merani" is multivalent. After graduating from the Tbilisi Noble School in 1835, where he was inspired by the ideas of humanism and national freedom, the poet was forced to become a civil servant in the judicial department, perceiving his service as humiliation.
In the early 1840s, Baratashvili gained fame as a poet, but his poems were first published only in 1852 in the journal "Tsiskari".
The feelings of loneliness, which permeate his early poems ("Twilight on Mtatsminda," 1836, "Reflections on the Banks of the Kura," 1837), reach a tragic tone in the poem "Lonely Soul" (1839).
However, the tragic conflict with reality is combined with a deep faith in the triumph of reason and justice. Nature wove a gentle dream of loveliness and sadness there.
O sky!
You has engraved your image on my heart forever!
And when I gaze upon your blue my thoughts enraptured towards your fly
Alas, they cannot reach your heights, and in the air dissolve and die
Your radiance conceals this fleeting world of woes!
Beyond your realm my soul takes wing to seek repose
From dreary haunts where every cherished hope expires...
But woe!
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Translated by Venera Urushadze
Let none bewail the bitterness of orphancy,
Nor weep if destitute of friend or kin is he,
But pity him whose soul's bereaved by ruthless fate;
Once lost-'tis hard to find again a worthy mate.
Deprived of kin and friend the heart seems lone and dead
Yet soon it finds another one to love instead;
But if the soul does lose its mate, then it must bear
The curse of yielding all its hopes to black despair.
His faith is lost, he trusts no more this world of woe;
Distraught and wild, he shuns mankind, and does not know
To whom to trust the secrets of his troubled breast,
Afraid to feel again the faith it once possessed.
'Tis hard to bear the anguish of a soul forlorn,
To shun all worldly joys and smiles or pleasures scorn;
The lonely soul forever mourns its friend and mate,
And heavy sighs bring calm to him thus doomed by fate.
სული ობოლი
ნუ ვინ იტყვის ობლობისა ვაებას,
ნუ ვინ სჩივის თავის უთვისტომობას!
საბრალოა მხოლოდ სულით ობოლი,
ძნელღა პოვოს, რა დაკარგოს მან ტოლი!
მეგობართა, ნათესავთ მოკლებული,
ისევ ჩქარად ჰპოვებს სანაცვლოს გული;
მაგრამ ერთხელ დაობლებული სული
მარად ითმენს უნუგეშობას კრული!
არღარა აქვს მას ნდობა ამა სოფლის;
ეშინიან, იკრძალვის, არღა იცის,
ვის აუწყოს დაფარული მან გრძნობა,
ეფიქრება ხელმეორედ მას ნდობა!
ძნელი არის მარტოობა სულისა:
მას ელტვიან სიამენი სოფლისა,
მარად ახსოვს მას დაკარგვა სწორისა,
ოხვრა არის შვება უბედურისა!
+-Twilight over Mtatsminda.
The poet's struggle against the powers of pessimism and darkness found expression in one of his best poems, Merani, which has infuenced later Georgian poets. He fell in love with the sister of Nino Griboedova, Princess Ekaterina Chavchavdze but she married someone else but he carried a flame for her throughout his life and gave him a penchant for lyric poetry much of which he dedicated to her including the “Blue Flower”.
He was surrounded by other notable writers, Grigol Orbeliani was his uncle and Alexander Chavchavdze was a friend of his father’s.
In 1835, he finished the school for children of the nobility in Tbilisi and entered government service as an official in the court. In his poems, Baratashvili sang of high moral ideals, and sought his own path to improve society. Nikoloz Baratashvili is the 2,623rd most popular writer (down from 2,562nd in 2024), the 99th most popular biography from Georgia and the 10th most popular Georgian Writer.
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Among WRITERS
Among writers, Nikoloz Baratashvili ranks 2,623 out of 7,302.
His mother Efemia was the sister of Prince Grigol Orbeliani who was the granddaughter of King Erekle II. His mother had a love of literature and Baratashvili came into contact with statesmen and writers who visited their house.
1827: He goes to the Tbilisi gymnasium and is taught by Solomon Dodashvili.
1832: The Georgian nobles form a conspiracy against the Russian state which ultimately fails.