The Knight in the Panther's Skin
The Georgian female poet Tamar Eristavi proposed, in 1988, a romantic though unreliable and otherwise unproved hypothesis identifying Prince Demna with the famous Georgian poet Shota Rustaveli, who was allegedly in love with his cousin, Princess Tamar; he survived the repressions and wrote his poem "The Knight in the Panther's Skin" (dedicated to Tamar) in exile under the assumed identity of "Rustaveli".