Prince Akaki Tsereteli (Georgian: აკაკი წერეთელი) (1840-1915) was a prominent Georgian poet and national liberation movement figure.

Born in the village of Skhvitori, Imereti region of western Georgia on June 9, 1840, to a prominent Georgian aristocratic family. His father was Prince Rostom Tsereteli, his mother, Princess Ekaterine, was a daughter of Ivane Abashidze and a great-granddaughter of King Solomon I of Imereti. Following an old family tradition, Akaki Tsereteli spent his<