Two Intertwined Lives: Alexandre Dumas’s Georgian
25.00 GEL
- Author: Claude Schopp
- Year of publication: 2026
- Translator: Irina Labadze
- Page quantity: 328
- Cover designer / Illustrator: Dako Kharauli
- Language: Georgian
- Category: FICTION
- ISBN: 978 9941997273
Claude Schopp, the renowned biographer of Alexandre Dumas, visited Georgia several times to trace the writer’s journey through the Caucasus. In his book The Caucasus, Dumas recounts meeting a man named Vasili Mirianashvili from Gori in Poti and inviting him to accompany him on his travels. Unable to leave immediately because he had no passport, Vasili later obtained one and set off for Paris alone, without money or knowledge of foreign languages, relying solely on Dumas’s name and a letter the writer had left for him. He eventually reached Paris, where he remained by the writer’s side until Dumas’s death. This book is dedicated to the extraordinary life of Vasili Mirianashvili, also known as Mirianoni: his life alongside Dumas and his subsequent activities in France. In the French town of Pouilly, Vasili established a bathhouse, a casino, a restaurant, and other enterprises. He also performed an act of heroism that was reported by Le Figaro. One of his descendants, Georges Mirianon, went on to become a renowned artist. Today, a street and a square bear his name, and an award named in his honour is presented annually.