Kazbegi wrote a famous novel entitled "The Patricide" (1883). It was the story of a Georgian bandit-rebel by the name of "Koba." In the novel, Koba manifested all the ideal characteristics of a mountain renegade: A defender of the poor, Koba was a man of vengence and fierce independence, who had nothing but contempt for authority -- mixed with a proclivity towards violence. Kazbegi's work was a major inspiration for another contemporary Georgian, Iosef Djugashvili, later known as Stalin.