Petre Gruzinsky
Prince Petre Petres dze Bagrationi Gruzinsky was a Georgian poet and Honored Artist of the Georgian SSR. He was a son of Prince Petre Bagration-Gruzinsky and a scion of King George XII of Georgia.Biography
Gruzinsky was a descendant of the Kakhetian branch of the Bagrationi Dynasty, a former royal house of Georgia. His grandfather Alexander Bagration-Gruzinsky was son of Prince Bagrat of Georgia, the fourth son of King George XII of Georgia. Petre's literary career began in 1933, under the penname of Tamarashvili. Gruzinsky gained popularity as an author of lyrics for the songs by Revaz Lagidze, Giorgi Tsabadze, and Giya Kancheli, including for Lagidze's Tbiliso, one of the best known Georgian songs, and for the cult Soviet comedy Mimino.
Gruzinsky was arrested and tried on charges of anti-Soviet activities and monarchist plot in 1945 and confined in a mental facility until released in 1948. Many of his literary works afterwards were published under the names of Gruzinsky's wife Liya Mgeladze and the journalist Irakli Gotsiridze. His first collection of poetry was published posthumously, in 2001. Gruzinsky died in 1984. He is buried at the Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in Mtskheta.Family
Petre Gruzinsky was married twice. He married in 1939 Ketevan Siradze, daughter of Filimon Siradze, and had a daughter:
- Dali Bagration-Gruzinsky. She married first at Tiflis, Bruno Babunoshvili. Secondly, she married Zurab Vakhtangovitch Kurashvili.
In 1944, Gruzinsky married his second wife, Liya Mgeladze, daughter of Dimitri Mgeladze, the literary scholar and former member of the government of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, and wife. They had two children:
