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Feb 03, 1868 Gori, Shida Kartli, Georgia Died on 01 May 1951 (aged 83)
Georgian writer
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About Anastasia Eristavi Khoshtaria
- Anastasia Eristavi-Khoshtaria (Georgian: ????????? ????????-????????) (February 3, 1868 – May 1, 1951) was a Georgian woman novelist. She was born into an aristocratic family in Gori, Georgia, then part of Imperial Russia.
- Eristavi-Khoshtaria began as a teacher in her birthplace, Gori, where she founded a free school for peasant children and later established a women’s organization Mandilosani (1913-4).
- She debuted in 1885 when her translation of an Ossetic legend ???? (Beso) was published.
- In the 1890s she was encouraged by the popular Georgian writer Akaki Tsereteli to move to Tbilisi to continue her work on original writings.
- Her first novels, ??????? ????? (On the Slippery Path, 1897) and ????? ?????? (The Wheel of Fate, 1901), enjoyed recognizable success.
- Being the first Georgian female writer who set her work from a feminine view and direct it at educated adults, Eristavi-Khoshtaria’s novels and stories follow one pattern: they trace the career of a Georgian noblewoman, thrown into turmoil of the collapse of the old economic and moral orders in the mid-19th century, defending her ideals of free work and truthful love against a corrupt background and clay-footed heroes.
- After the Soviet invasion of 1921, she withdrew from literary and public activities and wrote little, except ideologically corrective introductions to reprints of her own works .Anastasia Eristavi-Khoshtaria was married to Dutu Megreli (Dimitri Khoshtaria) (1867-1938), an author of popular patriotic poems and children's stories.
