Background
Nino was raised in the Tsinandali palace, eastern Georgia, where her father was writing his historical novels and poetry.
Nino was raised in the Tsinandali palace, eastern Georgia, where her father was writing his historical novels and poetry.
When Nino turned sixteen, she met Russian poet and novelist Alexander Griboyedov during one of her father"s parties in Tiflis. After hearing of her husband’s death in Teheran (January 30, 1829), Nino gave birth to a premature child, who died soon after. Why still does my love outlive you?" This epitaph also figures in the novel Ali and Nino by Kurban Said when the couple visits the gravesite in Tbilisi.
She never remarried, rejecting her numerous suitors (including the prominent Georgian poet and military commander, Grigol Orbeliani, who, inspired with hopeless passion towards Nino for thirty years, also never married) and winning universal admiration for her fidelity to his memory.
Nino died in 1857, and was buried next to Griboyedov.