Vol. 18 (2025): International Conference Emigration and Literary Discourse
Georgian Literature in Emigrant Journalism and Literary Criticism

Nikoloz Baratashvili in Georgian Émigré Literature

  • Maia Tsertsvadze
Maia Tsertsvadze
Georgian Technical University
DOI: https://doi.org/10.62119/cils.18.2025.10930

Published 2026-02-19

Keywords

  • Nikoloz Baratashvili,
  • Georgian emigration,
  • Georgian émigré literature,
  • Emigrant publications,
  • Georgian émigrés on Nikoloz Baratashvili

Abstract

Following the 1921 Soviet occupation of Georgia, the ensuing resistance and the brutally suppressed national uprising forced many Georgian patriots into exile. Across Europe and America, émigrés founded significant political and cultural centers, launching publishing and journalistic activities that promoted Georgian culture. Their newspapers and journals regularly featured scholarly, literary, and journalistic texts about Georgia and its writers. Among them, romantic poet Nikoloz Baratashvili held a central place, ins­piring even the title of the Salia family’s Paris-based journal ‘The Fate of Georgi’. Presented article reviews émigré materials related to Baratashvili to advance studies of his work and Georgian émigration.