House-Museums of Georgian Poets. House Museum of David and Sergo Kldiashvili.
The house-museum of David and Sergo Kldiashvili contains a rich collection that touches on the lives and works of the poets. Here you will find the personal belongings of the poets, photographs, various documents, furniture, old clothes, dishes, publications where the poets' works were printed and more.
Georgian writer David Kldiashvili (1862-1931) was educated first at the Kiev and then at the Moscow Military College as an officer in the army of Tsarist Russia. David Kldiashvili began his service in Batumi. After the revolution of 1905-07 as an unreliable lieutenant colonel he was forced to resign from military service. He worked in the management of manganese production in Kutaisi and Chiatura. In 1915 he was drafted to the Ottoman front. For the patronage of the Chans (Lazs) living in Turkey, he awaited a field trial, but the February Revolution of 1917 came, and David Kldiashvili returned to Georgia.
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In 1930 he was awarded the title People's Writer of Georgia. Such works as "Wrath", "Mikela", "Victim", "Soloman Morbeladze", "Stepmother Samanishvili", "Poverty of Kamushadze", "Bakula Pigs", "Irina Happiness", "Darispan Difficulties" and others belong to his pen.
Plays have been staged and feature films have been made based on the writer's works.
The Georgian poet, writer, member of the Symbolist literary group "Blue Horns" Sergo Kldiashvili (1893-1986) was the son of David Kldiashvili.
The house-museum contains materials related to the life and work of David and Sergo Kldiashvili: personal belongings, manuscripts, photos and documentary material, furniture, clothes, dishes, publications of different periods. The museum was founded in 1947.
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