Count Alexander Orbeliani (Jambakur-Orbeliani) (Georgian:
რლáƒ"ქსრნáƒ"რáƒ" რრáƒ'áƒ"ლირნი
[ჯრმáƒ'რკურ-რრáƒ'áƒ"ლირნი]) (May 24, 1802
â€" December 28, 1869) was a Georgian Romanticist poet, playwright,
journalist and historian, of the noble House of Orbeliani.Alexander
Orbeliani was born in Tiflis (Tbilisi), then under Imperial Russian
rule, to Prince Vakhtang Orbeliani and Princess Tekle, a beloved
daughter of the penultimate Georgian king Erekle II. In 1817, he
joined the Russian military service. However, together with his mother
and his brother Vakhtang, he led a failed coup attempt against Russian
rule in 1832. The conspirators planned to invite the Russian officials
in the Caucasus to a grand ball where they would be given the choice
of death or surrender. After the collapse of this plot, Orbeliani was
arrested and exiled to Orenburg whence he would not be able to return
until 1840. The abortive uprising and relatively mild punishment that
followed forced many conspirators to see the independent past as
irremediably lost and to reconcile themselves with the Russian
autocracy, transforming their laments for the lost past and the fall
of the native dynasty into Romanticist poetry. Orbeliani's most
coherent pieces are the allegorical poem of 1832, The Moon
(მთრვრრáƒ"), and a patriotic short story Immaculate Blood
(უმრნკრსისხლი) about three sisters, nuns, who
prefer death to apostasy when the commander of invading Persian troops
demands it; the latter is so impressed that he has to die with them.
Orbeliani also attempted a series of plays, but his interest in the
press was more important. He was a founding member of the editorial
board of Tsiskari, which for several years was the backbone of the
Georgian periodical press. Through it Orbeliani channeled his efforts
to standardize a literary language, based on revival of archaic forms.
He was also one of the first Georgian writers to take an interest in
retrieving folk poetry from the people, and authored several works on
Georgian history and culture.[1]
რლáƒ"ქსრნáƒ"რáƒ" რრáƒ'áƒ"ლირნი
[ჯრმáƒ'რკურ-რრáƒ'áƒ"ლირნი]) (May 24, 1802
â€" December 28, 1869) was a Georgian Romanticist poet, playwright,
journalist and historian, of the noble House of Orbeliani.Alexander
Orbeliani was born in Tiflis (Tbilisi), then under Imperial Russian
rule, to Prince Vakhtang Orbeliani and Princess Tekle, a beloved
daughter of the penultimate Georgian king Erekle II. In 1817, he
joined the Russian military service. However, together with his mother
and his brother Vakhtang, he led a failed coup attempt against Russian
rule in 1832. The conspirators planned to invite the Russian officials
in the Caucasus to a grand ball where they would be given the choice
of death or surrender. After the collapse of this plot, Orbeliani was
arrested and exiled to Orenburg whence he would not be able to return
until 1840. The abortive uprising and relatively mild punishment that
followed forced many conspirators to see the independent past as
irremediably lost and to reconcile themselves with the Russian
autocracy, transforming their laments for the lost past and the fall
of the native dynasty into Romanticist poetry. Orbeliani's most
coherent pieces are the allegorical poem of 1832, The Moon
(მთრვრრáƒ"), and a patriotic short story Immaculate Blood
(უმრნკრსისხლი) about three sisters, nuns, who
prefer death to apostasy when the commander of invading Persian troops
demands it; the latter is so impressed that he has to die with them.
Orbeliani also attempted a series of plays, but his interest in the
press was more important. He was a founding member of the editorial
board of Tsiskari, which for several years was the backbone of the
Georgian periodical press. Through it Orbeliani channeled his efforts
to standardize a literary language, based on revival of archaic forms.
He was also one of the first Georgian writers to take an interest in
retrieving folk poetry from the people, and authored several works on
Georgian history and culture.[1]
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