Maro Makashvili

Her father Konstantine Makashvili was a poet and her maternal grandmother was the writer Ekaterine Gabashvili.

Maro Makashvili was a student at the Tbilisi State University when the Red Army launched its invasion of Georgia in February 1921.

[1] Immediately after her death Georgian poet Titsian Tabidze compared her to Joan of Arc in a newspaper article.

In her honour, Zakaria Paliashvili used the name Maro for the heroine of his opera Daisi, which premiered in 1923.

[2] From age 16 until her death, Makashvili kept a diary that is now part of the collection of the Tbilisi Museum of Literature.