Kondraty (Kondrate) Davidovich Tatarishvili (literary pseudonym - Uiarago , translated as “Unarmed”) ( September 21, 1872 , Abastumani (now Zugdidi municipality , Georgia ) - May 9, 1929 , Tbilisi ) - Georgian writer and publicist .
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| Birth name | Kondraty (Kondrate) Davidovich Tatarishvili |
| Aliases | Wiarago |
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| Occupation | novelist |
| Direction | historical novel |
| Genre | story |
| Language of Works | Georgian |
Biography
Kondraty Tatarishvili was born in Megrelia , then Kutaisi province , Russian empire , in the family of a priest. In 1879, Kondrate entered the Senak School of Theology. His teachers included Vasili Barnov and Stefana Dzimistarishvili. He graduated from college with a first degree diploma and in 1887 he was enrolled in the Tbilisi Theological Seminary without exams. It was at that time that he began writing. In the summer he taught children. From 1893 he studied at the Kiev Theological Seminary. He graduated in 1894 and returned to Georgia.
In 1896, after marriage, Kondrate Tatarashvili received the rank of priest. Initially, he served in the village of Kirtskhi, Zugdidi district, where he founded a parish school. According to the stories of contemporaries, students from poor families were first of all delivered free books and exercise books. In 1902, he continued his service in the St. John the Baptist's Tbilisi Russian Church. At that church, he opened a women's school, which he himself managed and at the same time was engaged in teaching activities at the Kukika missionary school. In 1906, Tatarishvili took part in a meeting of the Tbilisi clergy, at which the main requirement was the restoration of the Georgian Autocephalous Church.
His journalism was directed mainly against the tsarist regime. Under pressure from the police authorities in 1912 he was forced to leave Georgia. He studied at the geological department of the University of Brussels . After returning to Georgia in 1921, he worked as an assistant at the department of geology at the university, from 1923 - the geological department of the State Museum.
Author of scientific papers, mainly in the field of hydrogeological problems of the Colchis Lowland. He studied the geology of deposits, as well as the possibility of using local building materials and bentonite clay.
Creativity
For the first time he spoke in the literary field in the nineties of the XIX century. In 1895 he published his first work "Goodbye" in the journal "Herald of the Day."
The author of historical works. The most famous work is “Mamluk” (მამლუქი, 1912), in which, against the background of the tragic fate of two people, he showed one of the most monstrous phenomena that took place in Georgia in the 18th century - the slave trade. In 1958, at the studio " Georgia-film " in his story was filmed the feature film " Mamluk ".
Another well-known book of the writer - “The Seekers”, presents a colorful panorama of life, life, social relations, customs and nature of Mingrelia of the 1880-1890s. The cognitive significance of the novel "The Seekers" is indisputable. Along with the destruction of noble nests, the onset of commercial capital, the social stratification of the peasantry and the rooting of bourgeois relations in the Georgian countryside at the end of the 19th century, the novel gives a broad picture of people's life and national life.
In 1957-1958 There was a two-volume collection of works Uiarago.
He knew well the rich folklore of his native places.
Uiarago is one of the brightest representatives of critical realism in Georgian literature.
Literature
- Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia , Volume 10, Art. 116,Tbilisi , 1986.