Prince Davit Guramishvili (1705 – 1792) was a Georgian poet and author of the finest pieces of pre-Romantic Georgian literature. His poetic talents thrived far beyond his motherland. He spent several years in Russian military service until he was decommissioned to a small Ukrainian estate at Myrhorod, where he spent the next eighty seven years of his tragic and turbulent life, and created the autobiographical work of poetry, DAVITIANI. Guramishvili's poetic legacy has reached us in the form of t