15 September] 1908 – 11 June 1990, born Irakli Luarsabis dze Andronikashvili)[b] was a Soviet and Russian literature historian, philologist, spoken word artist, and media personality.

His father Luarsab Nikolaevich Andronikov was a lawyer whom the Russian Provisional Government appointed Senate Criminal Department Secretary in 1917.

Irakly's maternal grandfather Yakov Gurevich was the founder of Bestuzhev Courses, the first Russian tertiary school for women.

[1] In 1930 Andronikov graduated from Leningrad State University and started to work for children magazines Chizh and Yozh [ru].

The last book, Lermontov in Georgia in 1837, was considered sufficient to give him the Doktor Nauk degree of Moscow State University (1956).

In a number of documentaries there, he tells his stories: «Загадка Н. Ф. И.», «Страницы большого искусства», «Портреты неизвестных», «Слово Андроникова» were published.