Alexander Kazbegi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alexander Kazbegi

Georgian writer

Date of Birth: 20-Jan-1848

Place of Birth: Stepantsminda, Mtskheta-Mtianeti, Georgia

Date of Death: 22-Dec-1893

Profession: actor, writer, poet, playwright, translator, author

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Alexander Kazbegi (Georgian: ?????????? ???????, Aleksandre Q’azbegi) (1848–1893) was a Georgian writer, famous for his 1883 novel The Patricide. Kazbegi was the great grandson of Kazibek Chopikashvili, a local feudal magnate who was in charge of collecting tolls on the Georgian Military Highway.
Alexander Kazbegi studied in Tbilisi, Saint Petersburg and Moscow, but on returning home, decided to become a shepherd to experience the lives of the local people.
He later worked as a journalist, and then became a novelist and playwright.
In his later life, he suffered from insanity.
After his death in Tbilisi, his coffin was carried across the Jvari Pass to his hometown of Kazbegi (now renamed Stepantsminda), which also preserves his childhood home as a museum in his honor. His most famous work, the novel The Patricide is about a heroic Caucasian bandit named Koba, who, much like Robin Hood, is a defender of the poor.
Koba has nothing but contempt for authority, a proclivity towards violence, and a firm belief in vengeance.
Kazbegi's work was a major inspiration to Iosif Jughashvili, later known as Joseph Stalin, who used Koba as a revolutionary pseudonym.



Alternative names	Alexander Solomonovich Roinov ????????? ??????????? ?????? / ????????? ?????????? ?????????? ?????????? / ????????? ???????
Description	Russian photographer
Date of birth/death	1846	11 May 1898
Location of birth/death	Dusheti	Tbilisi
Work period	1865-1898
Work location	Caucasus, Georgia
Authority control	: Q3651930 VIAF: 36667423 ISNI: 0000 0000 6705 7870 ULAN: 500067169 LCCN: no2006036376 Open Library: OL6761310A WorldCat