RARE! The Order of Malta Nicholas Tchkotoua Hand Signed Card JG autographs COA

  

"Order of Malta" Nicholas Tchkotoua Hand Signed Card. Certified authentic by JG Autographs and comes with their Certificate of. Writer and a prominent member of the.

He fled his homeland after the takeover by the. He was educated in France and Switzerland and settled in the US in.

1933 where he met and married Carol Marmon, only daughter of. Switzerland where he died in 1984.

In 1949, Tchkotoua published a novel. He wrote in English, claimed as the first-ever internationally published novel. In the novel, set in Tbilisi. Before the First World War, Georgian Prince Shota's love. For his Taya, a Russian princess, remains faithful even when outside forces.

Manipulate their emotions, prise them apart and Shota ends up betrothed to an. But it is the emotion, rather than the betrothal, that concerns the. A new, re-edited version of the novel was published in 2008.

Tchkotoua asked that after his death his heart be buried in. In 1988 his family smuggled it back to the cemetery in Vera. Where it lies to this day.