Mikheil Javakhishvili (Adamashvili) (1880 –1937)

was a Georgian novelist who is regarded as one of the top twentieth-century Georgian writers. His first story appeared in 1903, but then the writer lapsed into a long pause before returning to writing in the early 1920s. His recalcitrance to the Soviet ideological pressure cost him life: he was executed during Stalin's Great Purge and his writings were banned for nearly twenty years.