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gether with the private letters in Viktor Nozadze’s archive in Paris, willed
by the scholar to his brother Giorgi Nozadze.
As early as 1989, Guram Sharadze took an interest in the fate of this
archive, and with the assistance of the Georgian emigrants Mamia Berish-
vili and Karlo Inasaridze he succeeded in fully transferring the archive to
Georgia in December 1996. Sharadze also founded the Emigration Mu-
seum (Viktor Nozadze’s archive is currently kept at this museum) and the
Department of Georgian Emigrant Literature (Shota Rustaveli Institute
of Georgian Literature), which laid the foundation for research and pub-
lication of Viktor Nozadze’s scholarly legacy. In 2004, at the initiative of
the Viktor Nozadze Society (established in 2004) and Sharadze, the pub-
lication of Viktor Nozadze’s works in ten volumes began. The publica-
tion will include six books devoted to The Knight in the Panther’s Skin, as
well as hitherto unknown historical-philological and journalistic works
on Rustaveli; essays, studies, and reviews, scattered throughout emigrant
journals and newspapers; and epistolary heritage. At present, three vol-
umes have been published. When commenting on this effort, Revaz Bar-
amidze evaluated Nozadze’s work as follows:
Reading the works of Viktor Nozadze, one is impressed not only by
the scale of his knowledge and profoundness of thought, but also by the
fact that he was able to write such extensive material in such a limited
time and circumstances. However, this may be easy to understand if one
bears in mind the fanatic love the emigrant torn from his homeland had
for Rustaveli. This love endowed him with energy, on the basis of which
this treasure of Rustaveli studies was created (R. Baramidze 2004, 34).
Works Cited
Abashidze, Irakli. 1966. “Verny idealam velikogo predka.” Literaturnaja
Gruzia 9–10: 9–11.
———. 1969. “Didi erovnuli zeimi.” Literatutuli sakartvelo, September 26,
1969.
Baramidze, Aleksandre. 1969. “Akhali rustvelologiuri nashromi seriozuli
shetsdomebit.” Tsiskari 4: 110–134.
Baramidze, Revaz. 2004. “Rogor sheikmna da rogor moaghts’ia chvenamde
Vik’tor Nozadzis rustvelologiurma memk’vidreobam.” In Suli – marad
sakartveloze mapikrali, ed. by Guram Benashvili, 28–30. Tbilisi: Litin-
stituti Press.
Javakhishvili, Givi. 1966. “Rustavelis zeimze.” Komunisti, July 31, 1966.
Kekelidze, Korneli.1981. Dzveli kartuli literaturis istoria. Tbilisi: TSU Press.
gether with the private letters in Viktor Nozadze’s archive in Paris, willed
by the scholar to his brother Giorgi Nozadze.
As early as 1989, Guram Sharadze took an interest in the fate of this
archive, and with the assistance of the Georgian emigrants Mamia Berish-
vili and Karlo Inasaridze he succeeded in fully transferring the archive to
Georgia in December 1996. Sharadze also founded the Emigration Mu-
seum (Viktor Nozadze’s archive is currently kept at this museum) and the
Department of Georgian Emigrant Literature (Shota Rustaveli Institute
of Georgian Literature), which laid the foundation for research and pub-
lication of Viktor Nozadze’s scholarly legacy. In 2004, at the initiative of
the Viktor Nozadze Society (established in 2004) and Sharadze, the pub-
lication of Viktor Nozadze’s works in ten volumes began. The publica-
tion will include six books devoted to The Knight in the Panther’s Skin, as
well as hitherto unknown historical-philological and journalistic works
on Rustaveli; essays, studies, and reviews, scattered throughout emigrant
journals and newspapers; and epistolary heritage. At present, three vol-
umes have been published. When commenting on this effort, Revaz Bar-
amidze evaluated Nozadze’s work as follows:
Reading the works of Viktor Nozadze, one is impressed not only by
the scale of his knowledge and profoundness of thought, but also by the
fact that he was able to write such extensive material in such a limited
time and circumstances. However, this may be easy to understand if one
bears in mind the fanatic love the emigrant torn from his homeland had
for Rustaveli. This love endowed him with energy, on the basis of which
this treasure of Rustaveli studies was created (R. Baramidze 2004, 34).
Works Cited
Abashidze, Irakli. 1966. “Verny idealam velikogo predka.” Literaturnaja
Gruzia 9–10: 9–11.
———. 1969. “Didi erovnuli zeimi.” Literatutuli sakartvelo, September 26,
1969.
Baramidze, Aleksandre. 1969. “Akhali rustvelologiuri nashromi seriozuli
shetsdomebit.” Tsiskari 4: 110–134.
Baramidze, Revaz. 2004. “Rogor sheikmna da rogor moaghts’ia chvenamde
Vik’tor Nozadzis rustvelologiurma memk’vidreobam.” In Suli – marad
sakartveloze mapikrali, ed. by Guram Benashvili, 28–30. Tbilisi: Litin-
stituti Press.
Javakhishvili, Givi. 1966. “Rustavelis zeimze.” Komunisti, July 31, 1966.
Kekelidze, Korneli.1981. Dzveli kartuli literaturis istoria. Tbilisi: TSU Press.
