PhD student Tamar Ninikashvili defended dissertation at Iakob Gogebashvili Telavi State University Faculty of Humanities on February 7th. The title of the dissertation work is “Brother Razikashvilis’ Miniature Prose” (academic supervisors: Professor Luiza Bochkova-Khvichia and Professor Nino Kochloshvili).

The aim of the research is to analyze the brother Razikashvilis’ miniatures, reveal their main figurative peculiarities and define the genre essence and problems on the basis of the works.

Scientific novelty of the research is to drop a boundary between Razikashvilis’ prosaic compositions and miniature itself as the separated genre. 

Tamar Ninikashvili  was awarded the academic degree of the Doctor of Philology.