Before he was a revolutionary, Stalin was known as a poet. In 1895, aged 17 and studying for the priesthood in Georgia, a province of the tsarist empire, he took a selection of his poems to show to the country's most famous editor and national hero, Prince Ilya Chavchavadze. The prince was deeply impressed with both the poems and the poet, whom he called that "young man with the burning eyes". After looking through the verses, he chose five to publish in Iveria (an archaic name for Georgia), Russia's most fashionable and prestigious literary journal. It took someone of the young Stalin's ambition and colossal self-confidence to walk into the prince's office and offer his poems for publication.
When printed, they were widely read and much admired. They became minor Georgian classics, to be published in anthologies and memorised by schoolchildren until the 1970s (and not as part of Stalin's cult; they were usually published as "Anonymous"). https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/may/19/featuresreviews. guardianreview32
刚想起来斯大林的文学品味很高。查了一下，斯大林是一位真正的诗人。
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斯大林的诗歌创作生涯总共持续了4年（1893年─1896年）。但手稿皆已散失，无从查
找。但斯大林是一个真正的诗人，虽然他从未指望过得到诗坛的承认，却在初出茅庐之时即得到普遍的认可。格鲁吉亚的许多刊物一度心甘情愿地为这个格鲁吉亚的青年诗人提供版面，他的诗句在读者中争相传诵。有这样一个事实，很能说明问题：格鲁吉亚经典作家恰夫恰瓦泽（1837─1907）曾将斯大林的作品列入中学生必读书目，这对一个初登诗坛的青年诗人来说简直不可思议，”
http://icpc-chinesepen.org/%E5%A7%9C%E5%B9%BF%E5%B9%B3%EF%BC%9A%E6%96%AF%E5%A4%A7%E6%9E%97%E7%9A%84%E6%96%87%E5%AD%A6%E6%83%85%E7%BB%93/
Before he was a revolutionary, Stalin was known as a poet. In 1895, aged 17 and studying for the priesthood in Georgia, a province of the tsarist empire, he took a selection of his poems to show to the country's most famous
editor and national hero, Prince Ilya Chavchavadze. The prince was deeply
impressed with both the poems and the poet, whom he called that "young man
with the burning eyes". After looking through the verses, he chose five to
publish in Iveria (an archaic name for Georgia), Russia's most fashionable
and prestigious literary journal. It took someone of the young Stalin's
ambition and colossal self-confidence to walk into the prince's office and
offer his poems for publication.
When printed, they were widely read and much admired. They became minor
Georgian classics, to be published in anthologies and memorised by
schoolchildren until the 1970s (and not as part of Stalin's cult; they were usually published as "Anonymous").
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/may/19/featuresreviews.
guardianreview32