page_title: Dmitry Gulia
hierarchical_section_title: Dmitry Gulia
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Памятник Дмитрию Гулиа, город Сухум.
context_page_description: Dmitry Gulia was an Abkhazian Soviet writer and poet, considered to be one of the founders of Abkhaz literature.
  Dmitry Iosif-ipa Gulia was born to a peasant family in Uarcha village, in the modern Gulripsh District of Abkhazia. Gulia studied at a teacher seminary in the city of Gori. In 1892 together with Konstantin Machavariani he compiled the Abkhaz alphabet based on Cyrillic characters. In his poetry collection the poet expressed the hopes of the Abkhaz people for a beautiful future and hatred towards any injustice. In 1921 Gulia organized and headed the first Abkhaz theater group. He was an editor of the first Abkhaz newspaper Apsny. His diverse activities reached the culmination in the Soviet times. His lyrics are penetrated with the pathos of creation, friendship, and unity of nations. Gulia wrote the first Abkhaz novella, Under Someone Else's Sky. In the novel Kamachich, he depicted Abkhaz life under the czars and the joyless destiny of a woman. Gulia's role in Abkhaz culture development is enormous. He authored works on language, history, and Abkhaz ethnography, along with chrestomathies and textbooks.
context_section_description: Dmitry Gulia (Abkhazian: Дырмит Иасыф-иҧа Гәлиа; 9 February 1874 – 7 April 1960) was an Abkhazian  Soviet writer and poet, considered to be one of the founders of Abkhaz literature.
  Dmitry Iosif-ipa Gulia was born to a peasant family in  Uarcha village, in the modern Gulripsh District of Abkhazia,. Gulia studied at a teacher seminary in the city of Gori.  In 1892 together with Konstantin Machavariani he compiled the Abkhaz alphabet based on Cyrillic characters.  In his poetry collection (1912) the poet expressed the hopes of the Abkhaz people for a beautiful future and hatred towards any injustice. In 1921 Gulia organized and headed the first Abkhaz theater group.  He was an editor of the first Abkhaz newspaper Apsny (Abkhazia). His diverse activities reached the culmination in the Soviet times.  His lyrics are penetrated with the pathos of creation, friendship, and unity of nations (epics Song about Abkhazia, 1940, Autumn in the Countryside, 1946, etc.).  Gulia wrote the first Abkhaz novella, Under Someone Else's Sky (1919). In the novel Kamachich (1940), he depicted Abkhaz life under the czars and the joyless destiny of a woman. Gulia's role in Abkhaz culture development is enormous.  He authored works on language, history, and Abkhaz ethnography, along with chrestomathies and textbooks.  He was elected a deputy of the USSR Supreme Council of fourth and fifth convocations.  He was awarded the Order of Lenin.
  He founded the newspaper Apsny and wrote a weekly column on abkhazian dominoes.
  Dmitry Gulia died on April 7, 1960 in the village of Agudzera in Abkhazia and was buried in the city of Sukhum.
caption: Monument of Dmitry Gulia in Sukhum
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