Ilia Chavchavadze

georgia, national revival, poet, author, mtatsminda

Born Nov 08, 1837

Tbilisi, Georgia

Passed Away Sep 12, 1907 Tbilisi, Georgia

Lifespan 69 years old

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"Motherland, language, and faith: these are the sacred treasures we must guard with our lives."

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Father of the Georgian Nation, poet, novelist, and journalist who led the cultural and national revival of Georgia in the 19th century.

Biographical Record

Prince Ilia Chavchavadze was a Georgian writer, political philosopher, and civic leader who inspired the 19th-century national awakening, canonized as Saint Ilia the Righteous.

Educated in Saint Petersburg, Chavchavadze founded the influential literary and socio-political journal 'Iveria', established the Society for the Spreading of Literacy among Georgians, and headed the Bank of the Nobility to finance national cultural institutions.

His assassination in 1907 by political extremists shocked the nation and galvanized the Georgian people toward eventual independence, establishing his legacy as the moral conscience of modern Georgia.

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Mtatsminda Pantheon
Tbilisi, Georgia

                         GPS: 41.6961, 44.7892                    

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