Murry led the charge against Georgian poetry.
As a nature admirer, Vazha-Pshavela knows no comparison in Georgian poetry.
At the time he lived in Tbilisi and translated Georgian poetry.
He is the author of several poems, memoirs, and a compilation of Georgian poetry.
After retirement from the army, he lived in St. Petersburg, focusing on compiling an anthology of Georgian poetry.
For a time, he wrote Georgian poetry, for which he gained some fame.
The self-sacrifice of Nine Brothers was represented in Georgian poetry.
He strongly objected to the contemporary Persian literary influences, and called for the revival of Shota Rustaveli's traditions of Georgian poetry.
His own Selections from Modern Poets anthology series, launched in 1921, became definitive of the conservative style of Georgian poetry.
His next poetic collection Crâne aux fleurs artistiques (1919) made him the leader of Georgian poetry for several decades to come.