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Dmitry Gulia was an Abkhazian
Soviet
writer and poet, considered to be one of the founders of Abkhaz literature
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Dmitry Iosifovich Gulia was born in the village of Uarcha in the modern Gulripsh District
of Abkhazia
to a peasant family. Gulia studied at a teacher seminary in the city of Gori
. In 1892 together with Konstantin Machavariani he compiled Abkhaz alphabet based on Cyrillic characters. In his poetry collection (1912) the poet expressed the hopes of Abkhaz people for the beautiful future and hatred towards any injustice. In 1921 Gulia organized and headed the first Abkhaz theater group. He was an editor of the first Abkhaz newspaper Apsny (Abkhazia). His diverse activities reached the culmination in the Soviet times. His lyrics are penetrated with the pathos of creation, friendship, and unity of nations (epics Song about Abkhazia, 1940, Autumn in the Countryside, 1946, etc.). Gulia wrote the first Abkhaz novella, Under Someone Else's Sky (1919). In the novel Kamachich (1940), he depicted the life of Abkhazians during the czarism and joyless destiny of a woman. Gulia's role in Abkhaz culture development is enormous. He authored works on language, history, and ethnography of the Abkhaz, chrestomathies and textbooks. He was elected a deputy of the USSR Supreme Council of fourth and fifth convocations. He was awarded the Order of Lenin.
He held in the newspaper Apsny, that he created, a weekly rubric about abkhazian dominoes.
Dmitry Gulia died on April 7, 1960 in the village of Agudzera in Abkhazia and was buried in the city of Sukhumi
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Gulia G.D. Dmitry Gulia - Story of My Father - Moscow, 1963
Bgazhba H., Zelinsky K. Dmitry Gulia - Critic Biographic Essay - [Sukhum], 1965
Grand Soviet Encyclopedia, Third Edition - Moscow, 1974
Abkhaz people
The Abkhaz or Abkhazians are a Caucasian ethnic group, mainly living in Abkhazia, a disputed region on the Black Sea coast. A large Abkhazian diaspora population resides in Turkey, the origins of which lie in the emigration from the Caucasus in the late 19th century known as Muhajirism...
Soviet
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....
writer and poet, considered to be one of the founders of Abkhaz literature
Abkhaz literature
The written Abkhaz literature appeared relatively recently in the beginning of the 20th century although Abkhaz oral tradition is quite rich. Abkhaz share with other Caucasian peoples the Nart sagas — series of tales about mythical heroes, some of which can be considered as creation myths and...
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Dmitry Iosifovich Gulia was born in the village of Uarcha in the modern Gulripsh District
Gulripsh district
Gulripsh district is a district of Abkhazia, Georgia’s breakaway republic. It corresponds to the eponymous Georgian district. Its capital is Gulripsh, the town by the same name...
of Abkhazia
Abkhazia
Abkhazia is a disputed political entity on the eastern coast of the Black Sea and the south-western flank of the Caucasus.Abkhazia considers itself an independent state, called the Republic of Abkhazia or Apsny...
to a peasant family. Gulia studied at a teacher seminary in the city of Gori
Gori, Georgia
Gori is a city in eastern Georgia, which serves as the regional capital of Shida Kartli and the centre of the homonymous administrative district. The name is from Georgian gora , that is, "heap", or "hill"...
. In 1892 together with Konstantin Machavariani he compiled Abkhaz alphabet based on Cyrillic characters. In his poetry collection (1912) the poet expressed the hopes of Abkhaz people for the beautiful future and hatred towards any injustice. In 1921 Gulia organized and headed the first Abkhaz theater group. He was an editor of the first Abkhaz newspaper Apsny (Abkhazia). His diverse activities reached the culmination in the Soviet times. His lyrics are penetrated with the pathos of creation, friendship, and unity of nations (epics Song about Abkhazia, 1940, Autumn in the Countryside, 1946, etc.). Gulia wrote the first Abkhaz novella, Under Someone Else's Sky (1919). In the novel Kamachich (1940), he depicted the life of Abkhazians during the czarism and joyless destiny of a woman. Gulia's role in Abkhaz culture development is enormous. He authored works on language, history, and ethnography of the Abkhaz, chrestomathies and textbooks. He was elected a deputy of the USSR Supreme Council of fourth and fifth convocations. He was awarded the Order of Lenin.
He held in the newspaper Apsny, that he created, a weekly rubric about abkhazian dominoes.
Dmitry Gulia died on April 7, 1960 in the village of Agudzera in Abkhazia and was buried in the city of Sukhumi
Sukhumi
Sukhumi is the capital of Abkhazia, a disputed region on the Black Sea coast. The city suffered heavily during the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict in the early 1990s.-Naming:...
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Sources
BibliographyGulia G.D. Dmitry Gulia - Story of My Father - Moscow, 1963
Bgazhba H., Zelinsky K. Dmitry Gulia - Critic Biographic Essay - [Sukhum], 1965
Grand Soviet Encyclopedia, Third Edition - Moscow, 1974