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2. Biography
• Paliashvili was born on
16 August 1871
in Kutaisi.
• Zakaria was the third
child in a family of
eighteen children.
• Seven children died in
infancy.

3. • little Zakaria studied
"Lullaby for Jesus" and
sang it with great
success on Christmas
night.

4. family
•His father,
Petre
Ivanovich
Paliashvili
(1838–1913)
was a kind,
hard working
man.

5. family
• Zakaria's
mother, Maria
Pavlova
Mesarkishvili
(1851–1916)
was noted for
her grace and
spiritual beauty.

6. • In the summer of 1903, Zakaria Paliashvili and
A.S. Khakhashvili (Khakhanov), professor at
the University of Moscow and specialist in the
history of Georgian literature, made a tour of
Svanetia