Count Alexander Orbeliani (Jambakur-Orbeliani) (Georgian: ალექსანდრე ორბელიანი [ჯამბაკურ-ორბელიანი]) (24 May 1802 – 28 December 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 (მთოვარე), and a patriotic short story Immaculate Blood (უმანკო სისხლი) 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]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Alexander Orbeliani.
^Rayfield, Donald (2000), The Literature of Georgia: A History, pp. 142-3. Routledge, ISBN 0-7007-1163-5.
and 25 Related for: Alexander Orbeliani information
Count AlexanderOrbeliani (Jambakur-Orbeliani) (Georgian: ალექსანდრე ორბელიანი [ჯამბაკურ-ორბელიანი]) (24 May 1802 – 28 December 1869) was a Georgian Romanticist...
Prince Grigol Orbeliani or Jambakur-Orbeliani (Georgian: გრიგოლ ორბელიანი; ჯამბაკურ-ორბელიანი) (2 October 1804 – 21 March 1883) was a Georgian Romanticist...
The House of Orbeliani (Georgian: ორბელიანი) was a Georgian noble family (tavadi), which branched off the House of Baratashvili in the 17th century and...
penultimate Georgian king Erekle II. He was a brother of AlexanderOrbeliani and a cousin of Grigol Orbeliani, fellow Romanticist poets. He studied at the Tiflis...
Princess Elizabeth Orbeliani (Georgian: ელისაბედ ორბელიანი; b. 1871 - d. 1942) was a Georgian poet, translator, and philanthropist, who worked on improving...
the fighting. In the same year, he married a Georgian princess Salome Orbeliani, a prominent noble family with familial ties to the Bagrationi royal line...
(Mansur), who also held prominent positions like him. According to AlexanderOrbeliani (1802–1869), Otar had one more brother named Kaykhosrow. He furthermore...
Gorjasbi (Mansur), who held prominent positions as well. According to AlexanderOrbeliani (1802–1869), he had one more brother named Kaykhosrow. He was a close...
(1873-1924) and Prince Dmitry Ivanovich Orbeliani (1873-1922), who served as personal assistant of the Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich of Russia. She was the...
Elizaveta Orbeliani (1833-1899), granddaughter of Vakhtang Orbeliani, who was still married to Colonel Vladimir Davydov (1816-1886) (son of Alexander Lvovich...
Yekaterina (1872–1917), were married to the princes Mamuka Orbeliani and Ivan Ratiev, respectively. Alexander also had an illegitimate daughter, named Yelizaveta...
Ketevan Orbeliani (Georgian: ქეთევან ორბელიანი; died 1750) was a Georgian princess of the Orbeliani family. She was betrothed to Prince Heraclius, of...
Princess Manana Orbeliani (Georgian: მანანა ორბელიანი; 1808 – 3 June 1870) was a Georgian noblewoman and socialite, whose salon in Tiflis (modern Tbilisi)...
(1930–2013) Sławomir Mrożek See also: List of Georgian writers (1802–1869) AlexanderOrbeliani (1813–1864) Giorgi Eristavi (1824–1901) Raphael Eristavi (1862–1931)...
Alexander I the Great (Georgian: ალექსანდრე I დიდი, Aleksandre I Didi) (1386 – between August 26, 1445 and March 7, 1446), of the Bagrationi house, was...
calligrapher of the 19th century. In 1825, he rewrote the works of Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani. He also spoke Russian, Persian and Turkish languages. In 1828, he translated...
(Alexandrovsk-Lugansk 1850 - Nice, France 1924) 1st. Princess Orbeliani (widow of AlexanderOrbeliani) 2nd. Princess Murat, married Prince Louis Napoléon Murat...
Prince Ivan Makarovich Dzhambakurian-Orbeliani (Georgian: ივანე მამუკას ძე ორბელიანი Ivane Mamukas dze Orbeliani. Russian: Ива́н Мака́рович Орбелиа́ни)...
Ana Orbeliani (Georgian: ანა ორბელიანი; 17 July 1765 – 4 June 1832) was a Queen Consort of the western Georgian kingdom of Imereti as the wife of King...
Alfred de Musset, Charles Baudelaire Georgia: Alexander Chavchavadze, Nikoloz Baratashvili, Grigol Orbeliani Germany: Heinrich Heine, Johann Wolfgang von...
Kakheti, the wife of Prince Vakhtang Orbeliani, and mother of the Georgian literati, Alexander and Vakhtang Orbeliani. Tekle was born in 1776 in the family...
Topuria has been awarded the Order of Honor by the President of Georgia in Orbeliani Palace, Tbilisi, Georgia. List of current UFC fighters List of male mixed...
and sometime governor-general of Ganja. As his sisterly nephew, AlexanderOrbeliani, recalled in an 1865 essay on Levan, this princess was much loved...
nuances. Aesop, by Velázquez Valmiki Jean de La Fontaine Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani John Gay Christian Fürchtegott Gellert Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Ignacy...
Global Information
