Date & Place of Birth

August 11, 1873 (O.S.) August 24, 1873 (N.S.), Tbilisi

Date & Place of Death

April 3, 1939 (aged 66). Tbilisi (Varvara Amirajibi on the death certificate)

Place of Burial

Didube Pantheon, Tbilisi

Closest Anniversary Date

2023 will mark 150 years since birth

2024 will mark 75 years since death

Education

(School, Teacher)

Moscow division of the Imperial Russian Music Society (Moscow Conservatory), class of Professor V.I. Saponov (1894-9185), class of M. Ipolitov-Ivanov, etc.

Geographic Location of Work

Tbilisi, Avlevi Village (Kareli district, Georgia), Moscow.

Place of Work & Position

St. Nino Gymnasium; Russian Musical Society Tiflisi Division Music School; Georgian Philharmonic Society Music School (invited as a teacher by Z. Paliashvili in 1908 );  Tbilisi State Conservatoire teacher; Vera Technical School piano teacher;

Moscow Conservatory opera class concertmaster with  M. Ipolitov-Ivanov and B. Zarudnaya;  Music College No.1 piano teacher. 

Field of Work

Compositional Works:

- Chamber Instrumental: piano

- Chamber Vocal: vocal cycles, romantic pieces, songs

Family Members

Father - Mikheil Amirejibi, a military person, General of the cavalry; 

Mother - Sophio Arghutinsky-Dolgoroukov-Amirejibi, a member of the Society for the Dissemination of Literacy among Georgians, poet, translator, public figure, philanthropist; 

Brother - Constantine (Costa) Amirejibi, a professor, scientist, chemist, public figure, philanthropist, and the founder of the Scientific Institute for Agricultural Mechanization and Electrification (the Institute bears his name);

Sister - Anastasia Amirejibi, an artist (V. Serov’s student).

Close Persons

Ilia Chavchavadze, Akaki Tsereteli, Mikhail Ipolitov-Ivanov, Varvara M. Zarudnaya, Zakaria Paliashvili, Modest Tchaikovsky, Valentin Serov, Konstantin Igumnov, Ivane Sarajishvili, Militina Undilova-Sarajishvili, Victor Wilshaw.

Marital Status

Descendants / Heirs

Single

Nephew's descendants: Ketevan, Tamar and Irene Amirejibi

Location of Research Material

Amirejibi Family Archive;

National Parliamentary Library of Georgia