About the book: 1976 / The founder of critical realism in Georgian literature Ilya Chavchavadze (1837–1907) was an outstanding representative of the national liberation struggle of his people. His literary heritage contains classical examples of poetry and prose, drama and criticism, philological research and journalism. A great master of verse, which absorbed the colorfulness and flexibility of folk poetic forms, Ilya Chavchavadze was an irreconcilable enemy of autocracy and the serfdom system, a singer of social freedom. This publication covers the most significant part poetic heritage of Ilya Chavchavadze. Translations of his works belong to N. Zabolotsky, V. Derzhavin, A. Tarkovsky, Vs. Rozhdestvensky, S. Shervinsky, V. Shefner and other famous Russian poets-translators.