Shio Aragvispireli
Illustration — Shio Aragvispireli Shio Aragvispireli (შიო არაგვისპირელი) was a penname of Shio Dedabrishvili შიო დედაბრიშვილი; December 14, 1867 – January 2, 1926), a Georgian writer popular for his stories of protest against social inequality, the reality of oppressed peasants and underlings and decadent lords, and the struggle between individual happiness and social dogmas. He was born into a priest’s family near Dusheti, and enrolled in the Tbilisi Theological Seminary in 1883. In 1887, he was excluded from the seminary for his rebellious ideas, but restored again in 1889.
Shio Aragvispireli

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- შიო დედაბრიშვილი.
- Born
- 1867.
- Died
- 1926. · Tbilisi.
- Nationality
- Russian Empire, Democratic Republic of Georgia and Soviet Union.
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- writer.
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- Georgian.
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Illustration — Shio Aragvispireli Shio Aragvispireli (შიო არაგვისპირელი) was a penname of Shio Dedabrishvili შიო დედაბრიშვილი; December 14, 1867 – January 2, 1926), a Georgian writer popular for his stories of protest against social inequality, the reality of oppressed peasants and underlings and decadent lords, and the struggle between individual happiness and social dogmas. He was born into a priest’s family near Dusheti, and enrolled in the Tbilisi Theological Seminary in 1883. In 1887, he was excluded from the seminary for his rebellious ideas, but restored again in 1889.
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Recorded at birth as შიო დედაბრიშვილი. Born in 1867, died in Tbilisi in 1926.
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- 1.Rayfield, Donald (2000), The Literature of Georgia: A History: 2nd edition, p. 181. Routledge, .
- 2.Памяти Шио Арагвиспирели. Zarya Vostoka. 5. 5 January 1926.
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