“All my life is a struggle and pain”: (According to Akaki Tsereteli’s Personal Correspondence)

Abstract

There are 450 personal letters in Akaki Treseteli’s new academic publishing of twenty volumes. To arrange these volumes chronologically enables us to restore real picture of that epoch. Akaki keeps in touch the addressees regarding to the various public or private events. These letters will help the reader to see Akaki’s face panoramically. It is already possible to create Akaki Tsereteli’s creative and so called ‘spiritual’ biography. The biography, where we can see Akaki perfectly as a poet, an amazing writer and a peerless polemist, dramaturge and theatre director, incomparable orator, mourner of every dead person and master of epitaphs, sworn orator of graveyards, excellent lecturer and desired participants of all public events. From these letters, we will be informed that he was very active and many-sided “businessman” (although he had never got any profit). Via these letters, readers will know much about Akaki – as a thoughtful husband and desperate father.