PETRE OTSKHELI (1907-1937) Petre Otskheli: album / introduction Lili Lomtatidze: Theatre Union of Georgia. Tbilisi: Khelovneba,1973, - 122 p, ill.portrait, 27x19.5 cm In Russian, Georgian and English

Publisher’s illustrated binding, minor foxing spots on binding Petre Otskheli (1907-1937) was a Georgian theatre artist, one of the founders of Georgian Modernism. He lived and worked in Tbilisi and Moscow, collaborating with the greatest theatre directors of the time. He lived and worked in Tbilisi and Moscow, collaborating with the greatest theatre directors of the time. Despite he received wide acclaim, at the age of 30 Otskheli fell victim to Stalin’s repressions. In 1937 Otskheli was arrested and sentenced to execution by a firing squad and was declared a member of «counter-revolutionary, Trotskyist and nationalist organisation».