Samson Chanba

Samson Chanba (born June 18, 1886, Atara, Abkhazia, Russian Empire—died 1937, Abkhazia, Georgia, U.S.S.R.) was an Abkhazian educator, poet, and dramatist, best known for his contribution to the development of Abkhazian drama. Chanba trained as a teacher in Abkhazia. He taught for several decades in Abkhazian villages and later in Sokhumi, the capital of Abkhazia, before his first major publication, the long poem Daughter of the Mountains, appeared in 1919. An enthusiastic supporter of the...