Sulkhan Saba Orbeliani was an educator of the King of Kartli Vakhtang VI. Remarkable poet and scientist Vakhtang VI was the leader of the great movement initiated for an intellectual renaissance in Georgia. In 1709 the first printing-house was established, where for the first time the Gospel and “The Knight in the Panther's Skin" were printed. During this period the Georgian chronicles were collected, the basis of the Georgian historiography. Sulkhan Saba Orbeliani was in the center of the political and social life of the country together with Vakhtang VI. Sulkhan was searching methods of freeing the country from the Osmans. In 1698 Sulkhan became a monk at the Monastery of David Gareji, from thence called Sulkhan-Saba.