Kosta Levanovich Khetagurov[a] (Ossetian: Хетæгкаты Леуаны фырт Къоста, romanized: Xetægkaty Lewany fyrt Khosta, Russian: Коста (Константин) Леванович Хетагуров; 15 October [O.S.

Back in his native Ossetia, he became a prominent poet, whose poems composed in Ossetic quickly spread throughout Ossetian towns and villages in an oral form.

He also published a number of poems, stories and articles in the Russian-language newspapers Severny Kavkaz (edited by himself, 1893–1902), and Kazbek.

The last exile significantly shattered the poet's health and deprived him of the ability to continue his creative and social activities.

Konstantin (Kosta) Khetagkaty was born on October 15, 1859, in the remote mountain village of Nar.

[3] This school was one of great color, and was in a region of Russian significance, the later place where Mikhail Gorbachev cut his teeth.

As a result, the father informed Kosta of the many patriotic benefits and opportunities for the fighting man.

A double-edged sword struck the poor Kosta, however, as he found his stipend suddenly removed from his life.

The stipend has been up to this point in the story a form of deep reliance by Kosta, and he struggled to maintain himself without it.

There were trials of the body as Kosta was forced to undertake laborious activities in pursuit of sustenance.

[2] There are three paintings of especial noteworthiness described in the accounts as the opus of the master: "Children Stone-breakers", "In an Ossetian Hut", "The Zikara Pass".

There is an account of the verisimilitude of the painting "St.Nina", which upon display caused crowds to gather round and peer closely.It is said that these assembled throngs asked a custodial worker to let them unto a rope and poke the canvass to assure that it was a flat expanse and not a box with a statue contained.

This construction of scenes was lucrative but Kosta was displeased that the theaters advertised his presence so widely.

[2] In fact, there is a great dearth of common information about many details of Kosta's personal life.

The main influence on Kosta is identified to be the current that permeated Russia, the revolutionary and democratic spirit now sleeping but soon to rise like a burning sun.

Those who were about strictures and maintaining the past traditions were upset with him, and a series of escalations in angry officials resulted in Kosta's first banishment.

In 1895 Kosta was forcibly packed up and forced to leave immediately from the region of Terek without returning.

Unsatisfied with remaining in this boyish haunt that he remembered so well, eventually the Kosta home was moved to Pyatigorsk.

The Czar's underlings struck back, and in retribution for the trouble Kosta was exiled for the second time in the length of fice years, now to Kherson.

The second of the exiles, however, seemed to drain from Kosta the essential spirits and job required to be the great artist.

His work of the time has the quality of sickness: "Glorious sunlight strikes my forehead Warmly wafting voluptuous vapors of rippled Nostalgia, tears appear in my ears, my Hearing senses sorrowful drops of love outside.

Before the Death of Kosta it is said he wrote: "...the dawn is breaking, the sun is gleaming on the bay- onets".

Similarly branded in philosophy are considered Mikhail Lermontov, Nikolai Nekrasov, Robert Burns, Taras Shevchenko according to those who know the poets.

In brilliant mansions I'm expiring, Fainting and blinded by their glare... For ages built by slavedom tor- tured, In them the groans of orphans choke, In them the wine with tears is wa- tered- No, by yourselves enjoy good fortune, Where so unfortunate is the folk!

One example of Kosta's international poetry follows: "The world is my temple, The Love is my shrine, The universe is my homeland"[2] As for the roots of this philosophy, it is the current of revolutionary thought that was boiling in the Russian lands.

To quote the Soviet poet of esteem Nikolai Tikhonov, Kosta "became an asset for progressive thought, the foremost art and the vanguard of mankind" and "he joined by right the great family of world classical writers".

[2] Wrote one historian, "Kosta's influence on forming the Ossetian mentality is immense, and we believe that his beneficial moral power will be everlasting.

[6] Another fact of noteworthiness is that today Ossetia is known as a place of great arts and culture, with large thanks to Kosta.

There is a sign upon it that can be read, "To Kosta Khetagurov, the founder of Ossetian literature - from the government of the Soviet Union.