Chakhrukhadze

Chakhrukhadze 

Years of birth and death unknown. Twelfth-century Georgian author of odes.

Chakhrukhadze wrote a collection of panegyrical poems entitled Tamariani, in which he idealized the empress Tamara. The verse form he created was called Chakhrukhauli in his honor and was widely used in Georgian classical poetry.

WORKS

In Russian tranlsation:
Tamariani. Tbilisi, 1943.

REFERENCES

Marr, N. Ia. “Drevnegruzinskie odopistsy (XII v).” In Teksty i razyskaniia po armiano-gruzinskoi filologii. St. Petersburg, 1902.
Baramidze, A., Sh. Radiani, and B. Zhgenti. Istoriia gruzinskoi literatury. Tbilisi, 1958.