Zakaria was excommunicated and banished in 1764, but Besiki was allowed by King Erekle II to stay at the royal court where he received his education and began his career of a minstrel, his early style being influenced by Persian poetry and his older contemporary, the polyglot Tbilisite Armenian poet Sayat-Nova.
Zakaria foi excomungado e desterrado en 1764, pero o rei Erekle II permitiu que Besiki permanecese na corte real, onde se educou e comezou a súa carreira de menestrel nas súas primeiras composicións o seu estilo estaba moi influenciado pola poesía persa e o poeta armenio-xeorxiano contemporáneo Sayat-Nova.