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Remembering the life – and death – of Georgian poet Paolo Iashvili

Tbilisi’s new ‘Museum of Repressed Writers’ commemorates a prolific poet who took his own life during a Stalinist purge

By Hans Gutbrod
Remembering the life – and death – of Georgian poet Paolo Iashvili
Poet Paolo Iashvili was one of the leaders of Georgian symbolist movement
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A new exhibition in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi is aimed at highlighting a dramatic chapter in the country’s past.

Workers at the Writers House of Georgia, a literary museum, say they were astonished to find that visiting tours of schoolchildren had no idea some of their favourite poets had been murdered by the Bolshevik regime.

Natasha Lomouri, the museum’s director, says this was a major reason for the new exhibition, the ‘Museum of Repressed Writers’, which is on permanent display at the Writers House.

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