Abstract
Kutaisi is the birthplace of Georgian modernism and symbolism. It was in Kutaisi that the Georgian
symbolist school was formed, the Order of the Blue Horns, as its founders called it, and, accordingly, a new
stage in the history of Georgian literature and poetry began. The formation of the first Georgian modernist
school took place before the three-year political independence of the country (1918-1921), but its maturation and development took place in the complex political reality after 1921, which divided the history of
Georgian symbolism into two qualitatively different periods – the Kutaisi and Tbilisi periods. The Kutaisi
period coincided with the expectation of political freedom for the country and the joy of its implementation, and the Tbilisi period – with the dominance of Bolshevik ideology and political repressions.