Career
In 1825 he rewrote the works of Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani. He also spoke Russian, Persian and Turkish languages. In 1828 he translated from Persian to Georgian the work of XV poet Panah, "Bakhtiarnameh".
From the 1840s Sulkhanishvili lived in Saint St. Petersburg.
In 1839 he published a Georgian-French-Russian dictionary.