Born in Kutaisi , he graduated from the Moscow University in 1914 . Returning to Georgia , Gaprindashvili was one of the founder members of the Symbolist group Blue Horns in 1915/16 . His early , innovating poems illustrate the world as a mystic show populated with phantoms and doubles mixed with nearly " sacral " heroes from history and literature such as Cagliostro , Hamlet , Ophelia , Hannibal , etc . His first and best book , '' Daisebi '' ( " Sundowns " , 1919 ) , at a time he called " the Dionysian night " of Georgia , introduced into Georgian the aesthetics of Baudelaire and Paul Valéry , as well as the mannerisms of the Russian Symbolists . Gaprindashvili significantly distanced himself from the Georgian literary classics ’ understanding of a poet 's mission and suggested an outcast , mad and suicidal person as an eventual result of a poet 's natural evolution . From the 1920s , like many of his fellow Symbolists , he faced an ideological pressure from the newly established Soviet regime which forced him to make a conciliatory move towards the standards of Soviet literature . He survived Stalinist purges of the 1930s , but his later years were unproductive
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Great Purge
Valerian Gaprindashvili