# Alexander Kazbegi

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{{Short description|Georgian writer}}
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| honorific_prefix = 
| name             = Aleksandre Kazbegi
| image            = ალექსანდრე ყაზბეგი7.jpg
| imagesize        = 250px
| caption          = Alexander Kazbegi. Photo by [A. Roinashvili](/source/Alexander_Roinashvili), 1880s.
| birth_date       = {{Birth date|1848|1|20|df=y}}
| birth_place      = [Stepantsminda](/source/Stepantsminda), [Tiflis Governorate](/source/Tiflis_Governorate), [Russian Empire](/source/Russian_Empire)
| death_date       = {{Death date and age|1890|12|22|1848|1|20|df=y}}
| death_place      = [Tiflis](/source/Tiflis), [Tiflis Governorate](/source/Tiflis_Governorate), [Russian Empire](/source/Russian_Empire)
| resting_place    = [Mtatsminda Pantheon](/source/Mtatsminda_Pantheon), [Tbilisi](/source/Tbilisi)
| occupation       = Writer, novelist, journalist
| movement         = [Romanticism](/source/Romanticism), [Realism](/source/Realism_(arts))
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'''Alexander Kazbegi''' ({{lang-ka|ალექსანდრე ყაზბეგი}}; 20 January 1848 – 22 December 1893) was a [Georgian](/source/Georgia_(country)) writer, best known for his 1883 novel ''[The Patricide](/source/The_Patricide)''.

== Biography ==
thumb|Kazbegi as an actor
Kazbegi was born in [Stepantsminda](/source/Stepantsminda)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Alexander Kazbegi|url=https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Alexander+Kazbegi|access-date=2020-07-19|website=TheFreeDictionary.com|archive-date=2020-07-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200713054012/https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Alexander+Kazbegi|url-status=live}}</ref> the great grandson of [Kazibek Chopikashvili](/source/Kazbegi_family), a local feudal magnate who was in charge of collecting tolls on the [Georgian Military Highway](/source/Georgian_Military_Highway). Alexander Kazbegi studied in [Tbilisi](/source/Tbilisi), [Saint Petersburg](/source/Saint_Petersburg) and [Moscow](/source/Moscow), but on returning home, decided to become a shepherd to experience the lives of the local people. He later worked as a journalist, and then became a novelist and playwright. In his later life, he suffered from [insanity](/source/insanity). After his death in Tbilisi, his coffin was carried across the [Jvari Pass](/source/Jvari_Pass) to his hometown of Kazbegi (now renamed [Stepantsminda](/source/Stepantsminda)), which also preserves his childhood home as a museum in his honor.

His most famous work, the [novel](/source/novel) ''[The Patricide](/source/The_Patricide)'', is about a heroic [Caucasian](/source/Caucasus) bandit named [Koba](/source/Koba_(folk_hero)), who, much like [Robin Hood](/source/Robin_Hood), is a defender of the poor. Koba has nothing but contempt for authority, a proclivity towards violence, and a firm belief in [vengeance](/source/Revenge). Kazbegi's work was a major inspiration to Ioseb Jughashvili, later known as [Joseph Stalin](/source/Joseph_Stalin), who used ''Koba'' as a revolutionary [pseudonym](/source/pseudonym).

== Museum ==
The World Bank is supporting restoration of the Alexander Kazbegi Museum.<ref>[http://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/267451563937986135/pdf/Environmental-and-Social-Review-Restoration-of-Stepantsminda-Museum-Kazbegi-Municipality-Subproject-Phase-2.pdf Restoration of Stepantsminda Museum (Kazbegi Municipality)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104220854/https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/267451563937986135/pdf/Environmental-and-Social-Review-Restoration-of-Stepantsminda-Museum-Kazbegi-Municipality-Subproject-Phase-2.pdf |date=2021-11-04 }} [World Bank](/source/World_Bank)</ref>

==References==
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* The Prose of the Mountains: Tales of the Caucasus, translated by Rebecca Ruth Gould (Budapest: Central European University Press, CEUP Classics series, 2015). {{ISBN| 978-6155053528}}
* Bullock, Allen. ''Hitler and Stalin:Parallel Lives.'' Vintage Books. 1993. {{ISBN|0-679-72994-1}}
* Rebecca Ruth Gould, “[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2548054 Aleksandre Qazbegi’s Mountaineer Prosaics: The Anticolonial Vernacular on Georgian-Chechen Borderlands],” Ab Imperio: Studies of New Imperial History in the Post-Soviet Space 15.1 (2014): 361-390.
* Rosen, Roger. ''Georgia: A Sovereign Country of the Caucasus.'' Odyssey Publications: Hong Kong, 1999. {{ISBN|962-217-748-4}}
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