Alexander Abasheli

He came under the influence of then-fashionable trends of Symbolism, with his first collection of lyrics "The Smile of the Sun" (მზის სიცილი; 1913) being impregnated with what has been described by critics as the "cult of the Sun". • Illustration — Carriers of black choh. Abasheli is the first one on the right An outright hostility towards the Soviet regime established in Georgia in 1921 plunged his poetry into decadence characterized with the sense of hopelessness and disappointment in the revolutionary ideas of his youth. However, with the exacerbation of political repressions in the Soviet Union, Abasheli adopted a more conformist line and gradually became fully accommodated to the Soviet ideological dogmas to the point of collaborating with Grigol Abashidze in writing the original lyrics for the Anthem of the Georgian SSR which contained, among other things, a panegyric to Joseph Stalin. Abasheli is also remembered as an author of the first Georgian science fiction novel "A Woman in the Mirror" (ქალი სარკეში; 1930). Several of his poems were translated into Russian by Boris Pasternak.

The recorded working language is Russian and Georgian. Jules Verne, H. Wells and Akaki Tsereteli are recorded as an influence. Distinctions recorded are Order of the Red Banner of Labour and Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945".

• Name — Alexander Abasheli • Native Name — ალექსანდრე აბაშელი • Birth Name — Isaac Chochia (ისააკ ჩოჩია) • Born — August 15, 1884 • Birthplace — Sachochio, Kutaisi Governorate, Russian Empire • Died — September 27, 1954 (aged 70) • Place of death — Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union • Occupation — Poet and prose writer

Alexander Abasheli was recorded at birth as ალექსანდრე ჩოჩია. He also worked under the name Александр Виссарионович Абашели. His recorded languages were Russian and Georgian.