Vintage 1979 Soviet Book: Kote Marjanishvili Biography – E. Gugushvili | Tsar to Soviet Books

1979 Soviet biography "Kote Marjanishvili" by Eteri Gugushvili. Published by Iskusstvo in the Life in Art series. Definitive monograph on the founder of Georgian theatre with 24 photo plates.

Classic 1979 Soviet Theatrical Monograph: "Kote Marjanishvili" by Eteri Gugushvili

Product Overview: For theatre historians, researchers of the Soviet avant-garde, and collectors of Caucasian performing arts literature, this 1979 original Soviet hardcover monograph is a definitive biographical study. Published in Moscow by Iskusstvo as part of the esteemed "Life in Art" (Жизнь в искусстве) series, "Kote Marjanishvili" was written by theatre critic Eteri Nikolaevna Gugushvili.

Bound in woven oatmeal cloth with chocolate-brown spine typography, this 400-page volume includes 24 inserted leaves of archival photographic plates chronicling the creative revolution spearheaded by Konstantin (Kote) Marjanishvili across Russian, Ukrainian, and Georgian stages.

Avant-Garde Staging, Stanislavsky Links & The Modern Georgian Stage: Gugushvili's monograph reconstructs the aesthetic journey of one of early 20th-century theatre's dynamic visionaries:

• Theatrical Origins & Pre-Revolutionary Experiments: Traces his childhood productions staged in family wine cellars in Kvareli, early work alongside Chekhov and Gorky, his directing work at the Moscow Art Theatre under Stanislavsky, and his foundation of the innovative Free Theatre in 1913.

• Revolutionary Spectacle: Focuses on his staging of Lope de Vega's Fuente Ovejuna in Kyiv in 1919, which transformed classic drama into a mass revolutionary performance.

• Architect of Georgian National Theatre: Detailed chronicle of establishing the Second State Drama Theatre in Georgia (now named the Marjanishvili Theatre in Tbilisi), establishing a distinct performance school that elevated performers such as Veriko Anjaparidze, Sergo Zakariadze, and Shalva Gambashidze.

• Film Directing & Moscow Return: Explores Marjanishvili's early cinematic direction and his final productions at the Korsh Theatre in Moscow during the early 1930s.

Complete Bibliographic Specifications:

• Title: Котэ Марджанишвили (Kote Marjanishvili)

• Author: Eteri Nikolaevna Gugushvili

• Series: Life in Art (Жизнь в искусстве)

• Series Design: M. A. Anikst & S. M. Barkhin

• Publisher: Iskusstvo Publishing House, Moscow

• Publication Date: 1979 (Moscow, USSR)

• Language: Russian

• Binding: Original publisher's woven cloth hardcover

• Page Count: 400 pages (399 + 1) with 24 inserted leaves of monochrome photographic plates and frontispiece portrait

• Print Run: 50,000 copies

• Classification: Soviet Theatre History / Georgian Performing Arts / Avant-Garde Directors & Biographies