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What made Aleksandre Qazbegi the first commercially successful Georgian prose writer?
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Aleksandre Qazbegi achieved the status of the first commercially successful prose writer in Georgia primarily through his melodramatic fiction. His work resonated with readers by drawing upon the compelling legends and the pagan ethos of the Caucasian highlanders.1