Princess Javakh

This is the story of the life and growing up of a little girl - Princess Nina Javakh, a native of the sunny Gori - one of the corners of Georgia.

The girl early loses her mother, and the father-officer raises her a tomboy, accustomed to the will. But soon the grandmother-princess arrives at the house, who does not at all share the granddaughter’s ideas about how the girl should look. From childhood, trained in horseback riding and horseback riding, the ardent and hot Nina is more like a highlander boy than a lady. Grandmother has a completely different attitude to her grandson Yuliko, who also came to visit. A thin boy with blond curly hair, in velvet clothes, with lace on the cuffs, in turn, does not correspond to Ninin's ideas about men. At first this becomes a barrier between the children, but subsequently the brother and sister become closer and become best friends.

Their friendship is not given to last long. The boy dies in the arms of Nina from a serious illness. Nina has grief, to which is added the news of her father’s intention to marry. A girl who is passionately loving her deceased mother cannot reconcile with this and decides to run away, dressed as a Sazandar boy. Alone in the mountains, it first falls into a thunderstorm, and then into the clutches of robbers. Thanks to the luck and kind heart of one of the robbers, the girl is at home again. The father cancels his decision to marry, but sends Nina to the institute in St. Petersburg.

St. Petersburg, cold and gloomy, seems to her a dungeon in comparison with her fabulous Gori. The girl misses her father, her homeland, and at first she cannot find a common language with her peers. But over time, the honest and fair Nina puts up with all the girls, and even finds herself a faithful girlfriend for life. ^[2]

One of the readers, young Marina Tsvetaeva, devoted the poem to the main character of the story , ending with the words : “Oh yes, the gods loved you, Light-haughty princess!”

In Soviet times, Charskaya's books went out of fashion. It is characteristic that when the main character cleans up in his bookcase in the story by Anatoly Rybakov, “Dirk,” he remarks: “What is this? Um! Charskaya ... "Princess of Javakhh" ... Bullshit! Tearful girl book. Only the cover is beautiful. We need to exchange it with Slavka for another. Slavka loves books in beautiful bindings. ”

• Nina Javakha-oglu-Jamata
• George (Nina's father)
• Yuliko (cousin of Nina Javakh-oglu-Jamat)
• Haji Magomed (grandfather)
• Bella (aunt)
• Abrek (the robber who stole Shaly)
• Magoma (Savior of Nina)
• Princess Elena Borisovna Javakha (Nina's grandmother)
• Luda Vlassovskaya (best friend)
• Moon Fairy Irene (Irina Trachtenberg)
• Baby (Lidochka Markova)
• Raisa Belskaya (Robber)
• Rubella (Marusya Zapolskaya)
• Mother (grandfather) (mother of Nina Javakha-oglu-Jamat)