Sergo Kldiashvili (1893-1986) was a Georgian

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

 prose-writer who set out to be Symbolist

Symbolism (arts)

Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. In literature, the style had its beginnings with the publication Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire...

 but then was drawn to conformist Realist

Realism (arts)

Realism in the visual arts and literature refers to the general attempt to depict subjects "in accordance with secular, empirical rules", as they are considered to exist in third person objective reality, without embellishment or interpretation...

 prose under Soviet

Soviet Union

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 rule.

He was the son of the noted novelist Davit Kldiashvili whom Sergo would dedicate a special book in 1945. He attended the Kutaisi

Kutaisi

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 gymnasium which produced many of Georgia’s 20th-century intellectuals, and then studied law in Moscow

Moscow

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. Returning to Georgia, he joined Grigol Robakidze

Grigol Robakidze

Grigol Robakidze was a Georgian writer, publicist, and public figure primarily known for his exotic prose and anti-Soviet émigré activities....

’s Symbolist group Blue Horns

Blue Horns

Tsisperqantselebi was a group of Georgian Symbolist poets and prose-writers which dominated the Georgian literature in the 1920s. It was founded as a coterie of young talented writers in the Kutaisi city in 1915 and was suppressed under the Soviet rule early in the 1930s.The group originated in...

 and wrote in a moderately decadent

Decadent movement

The Decadent movement was a late 19th century artistic and literary movement of Western Europe. It flourished in France, but also had devotees in England and throughout Europe, as well as in the United States.-Overview:...

 manner. Under the Soviet rule, he quickly converted to socialist prose. In the 1920s-30s, Kldiashvili composed several patriotic and socialist prose, including an anticlerical satire Abesalom the Ex-Priest (აბესალომ ნახუცარი, 1933), more effectual The Adventures of Squire Lakhundareli (აზნაურ ლახუნდარელის თავგადასავალი, 1927), the plays A Generation of Heroes (გმირთა თაობა, 1937), Deer’s Gorge (ირმის ხევი, 1944). Despite his conformism, Kldiashvili was arrested in the Great Purge

Great Purge

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 of 1937, but was released when his (and Kolau Nadiradze

Kolau Nadiradze

Kolau Nadiradze was a Georgian poet and the last representative of Georgian Symbolist school.Born and initially educated at Kutaisi, Georgia , he studied law at the University of Moscow from 1912 to 1916. Returning to Georgia, his first verses appeared in 1916 in Georgian symbolist journal...

’s) interrogator was executed.