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The echo of Nikolai Chernishvesky's "What shall we do?!" in the works of Ilia
Chavchavadze, Akaki Tsereteli, and Alexander Kazbegi

Tamar Akhvlediani

Doctor of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor at Akaki Tsereteli State University

Abstract

Nikolai Chernishvesky left a strong mark on the Georgian sixties with his aesthetics and the novel
"What is to be done?!"

Not only the ideas of the novel, but also the characters were reflected in Ilia Chvchavadze's
"Traveller's Letters", "Is this man a human being?!" and "The Widow of Otarashvili".

Also, we find an echo of this novel in "Love" - the play by Akaki Tsereteli and in the Al. Kazbegi’s
"The Family of David". In this regard, "The Family of David " is particularly interesting.

In  this  play,  the  interesting,  but  subtle  and  eventually  penitent  character  deceives  and  ruins
pretty young orphan girl Nino with the utopian ideas of Chernyshsky from the novel "What is to be
done?!" about the possibility of women’s future freedom to gain her livelihood.

It can be seen that the people of this era still considered it dangerous to raise the issue of women
by Chernyshevsky, because in their opinion, life was not yet prepared for the emancipation of women.

Key words: Chernyshevsky, "What is to be done?!", Ilia Chavchavadze, " Is this man a human
being?!",  "The Widow of Otarashvili  ",  sick and healthy soil,  labor (pragmatic and altruistic),  Akaki,
Kazbegi, and noble ideas in the hands of a vampire reader.