Lives and Legends of the Georgian Saints

David Marshall Lang was appointed Acting British Vice-Consul in Tabriz in 1945. In 1946 he became a fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge and lecturing in Georgian at SOAS London from 1949-52. From 1952-1953 he was senior fellow at the Russian Institute of Columbia University in New York. In 1958 he was appointed Reader in Caucasian Studies at SOAS. Visiting Professor of Caucasian Studies at UCLA from 1964-5, in 1965 he became Professor of Caucasian Studies at London University. He was Honorary Secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society from 1962-64 and held an Honorary Doctorate from Tbilisi University.

1. St. Nino and the Conversion of Georgia 2. The Nine Martyred Children of Kola 3. A Martyred Princess: The Passion of St. Shushanik 4. A Militant Ascetic: Peter the Iberian, Bishop of Mayuma by Gaza 5. A Forerunner of St. Francis: David of Garesja 6. The Passion of St. Eustace the Cobbler 7. The Martyrdom of Abo, the Perfumer from Baghdad 8. Gregory of Khandzta and the Georgian National Revival 9. The Georgian Athonites 10. The Passion of Queen Ketevan.