11 Facts About Mikheil Javakhishvili

Mikheil Javakhishvili was a Georgian and Soviet novelist who is regarded as one of the top twentieth-century Georgian writers.

Mikheil Javakhishvili was born as Mikheil Adamashvili in the village of Tserakvi in what is the Kvemo Kartli region, Georgia.

Mikheil Javakhishvili enrolled into the Yalta College of Horticulture and Viticulture, but a family tragedy forced him to abandon his studies: robbers killed his mother and sister, and his father died shortly thereafter.

Mikheil Javakhishvili returned in 1917 and, after almost fifteen years of pause, resumed writing.

In 1923, during the Bolshevik crackdown on the party, Mikheil Javakhishvili was arrested and sentenced to death, but was exonerated through the mediation of the Georgian Union of Writers and released after six months of imprisonment.

Mikheil Javakhishvili skillfully incorporated folk phraseology into the normalized narrative language.

Mikheil Javakhishvili focuses on the tragic necessity that makes the chivalrous peasant Arsena to degenerate into the typical 19th-century bandit.

Mikheil Javakhishvili survived only because of the "kind mood" of Sergo Ordzhonikidze, who was personally asked by Javakhishvili's close friends historian Pavle Ingorokva and physician Nikoloz Kipshidze.

Furthermore, Mikheil Javakhishvili was suspected of warning the writer Grigol Robakidze of impending arrest and assisting him in defecting to Germany back in 1930.

On 22 July 1937, when the poet Paolo Iashvili shot himself in the Union of Writers building, and the Union's session went on to pass a resolution denouncing the poet's move as an anti-Soviet provocation, Mikheil Javakhishvili was the sole person present to praise the poet's courage.

Mikheil Javakhishvili's property was confiscated, and his archives destroyed, his brother shot, and his widow sent into exile.