Background
ABASHIDZE, Vasiliy was born in 1854 in Dusheti (Geo). Son of a teacher.
ABASHIDZE, Vasiliy was born in 1854 in Dusheti (Geo). Son of a teacher.
Graduate Tbilisi secondary school.
From 1879 with Tbilisi Geo Drama Company. Roles: Karapet in Eristavi’s "The Miser” and Mkrtum in Eristavi’s "Partition”. Zimzimov in Sundukyan’s Pepo.
The mayor in Gogol's Revizor (The Government Inspektor). Belogubov in Ostrovkiy’s Dokhodnoye mesto (A Lucrative Post), et cetera Pioneer of realism in Geo theater.
Also worked as producer. Tbilisi Musical Comedy Theater was named after him. 1885 founded and edited newspaper Teatri.
Author of several plays. Translated and adapted 42 comedies, vaudeville pieces and musical comedies. Published Kratkiye svedeniya o dramaticheskom iskusstve (A Short Guide to Stagecraft) (1894).