T. G. Shevchenko and the Georgian national movement of the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth century

The article traces the influence of the outstanding Ukrainian poet and prose writer T. G. Shevchenko on the formation and development of the leaders of the Georgian national movement Tergdaleulebi (I. G. Chavchavadze, A. R. Tsereteli, N. I. Lomouri, etc.) in the second half of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Tergdaleulebi members (literally: those who drank the water of the river Terek, meaning those educated in Russia), this patriotic-democratic direction of the Georgian educational thought of the 1860s and 1870s, was under the influence of T. G. Shevchenko, V. G. Belinsky, N. G. Chernyshevsky, N. A. Dobrolyubov and European socialists.