Vakhtang Orbeliani

He studied at the Tiflis nobility school and enrolled into the St. Petersburg Page Corps which he did not graduate from and returned to homeland to lead, in 1832, a failed coup attempt against Russian rule in 1832.

The conspirators planned to invite the Russian officials in the Caucasus to a grand ball where they would be given the choice of death or surrender.

In 1838, Orbeliani joined the Russian military service and served in the Nizhny Novgorod Dragoon regiment.

Between 1858 and 1863, he carried out various administrative and military duties in the North Caucasus, including being commander in the restive districts of Kabarda and Terek.

Like his elder brother Alexander’s, his poetry is obsessed with the destruction of the Georgian monarchy at the end of the 18th century, and the poet seeks console in a Christian patience.