Abstract:
In the middle of the 19th century, a lexical unit “rusetume” (“Russifi ed
Georgians” ) appeared in Georgian. This term referred to young people who
had studied in Russia did not care about the welfare of their country, and
had a nihilistic attitude to everything national. After some time, this term in
Georgian came into opposition with “Tergdaleulebi”. Unlike young people
who were called “rusetume” (“Russifi ed Georgians”), “Tergdaleulebi” used
the education that they got in Russia in favour of the national ideas. There are two differing comments in the scientific literature regarding the subject
of the segmentation of the word form rusetume (“Russifi ed Georgian”). In
this report, we will discuss both of them and present the arguments in favour
of one of them.