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The Literature of Georgia — A History by Donald Rayfield queer in russia Formed in Soviet Russia inAcross the ages Georgia has joined the great civilization of north and south as much as east and west. Despite prolonged subjection to Byzantine, Iranian and Russian overloads for more than fifteen hundred years, its literary language has evolved to produce a broad corpus of literature that has given rise to such extraordinary works as The Knight in the Panther's skin, to poets of genius and originality such as the anonymous hymnographers of Byzantine