Paolo Iashvili

Paolo Iashvili
პაოლო იაშვილი
Born29 June 1894
Died22 July 1937(1937-07-22) (aged 43)
Occupationpoet
LanguageGeorgian
NationalityGeorgian
Genrepoetry, symbolism
Literary movementBlue Horns
Notable awardsOrder of the Red Banner of Labour (1936)

Paolo Iashvili (Georgian: პაოლო იაშვილი; 29 June 1894 – 22 July 1937) was a Georgian poet and one of the leaders of the Georgian symbolist movement. Under the Soviet Union, his obligatory conformism and the loss of his friends at the height of Joseph Stalin’s Great Purge heavily affected Iashvili, who committed suicide at the Writers’ Union of Georgia.