The second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century are thought of as a significant period in the development of the humanities in Georgia. During this time,
Tao-Klarjeti is a general name that was coined in the academic language of the 19th century to define the medieval Georgian heritage, movable and immovable, related to the “Georgian Kingdom”
King Vakhtang I Gorgasali (ca. 442–502) was arguably the greatest Georgian king of late antiquity. From the early Middle Ages onwards, he became one of the main protagonists of Georgian
The Georgians learned about monastic life as early as the end of the fourth century. A crypt where monks were buried, which was discovered in the village of Tsilkani, near
At the end of the tenth century, the Georgian kingdoms and principalities entered a decisive battle for the unification of all the Georgian lands. The Kingdom of Apkhazeti (western Georgia),
In 813, the Presiding Prince Ashot I Curopolate fled the Arab oppression in Tbilisi and went to the southern Georgian province of Klarjeti. There, he established the new principality of
Ilia Chavchavadze was born in 1837. At that time, Georgia had already ceased to exist as a political entity, not with even a minimal degree of sovereignty. By the manifesto
Devastated by the aftermath of World War I, the future renowned Georgian artist Lado Gudiashvili seeks out Niko Pirosmani in order to help him procure financial support from Tbilisi’s Union
The French cruiser Ernest Renan departed from Batumi on March 18th 1921, carrying the government of the First Republic of Georgia into exile, as well as the country’s national treasure
At the end of the eleventh century, Georgia was in a disastrous situation. Devastating incursions by Turkish troops had desolated vast areas of the Georgian Kingdom. The peasants had
This is the fascinating and miraculous story about the conversion of the Iberian (eastern Georgian) Kingdom to Christianity at the beginning of the fourth century. The missionary who converted the
Personal Blog by Dato Turashvili Owing to the fact that I was born in Soviet Georgia, February for me has always been associated with sadness. This happened in spite
The village of Dmanisi lies some 85 kilometers south-west of the Georgian capital, Tbilisi. In the Middle Ages, Dmanisi was one of the most prominent cities and an important stop
The cultural life experienced in Tbilisi during the 1910-20s was one of the most important periods in Georgian art. Such a “sober” cultural life should be explained, in the first
The story of Parnavaz (299-234 B.C.) begins with a legend about the military expedition of Alexander the Great in Iberia (eastern Georgia or Kartli). Alexander conquered all the lands of
Colchis was the first definitive political formation created by the ancestors of modern Georgians. It emerged in the lands of western Georgia (while another ancient Georgian kingdom, that of Iberia,
The Georgian National Museum is a scientific cultural institution unifying the country’s major museums, archeological sites, research centers, etc. It has inherited its institutional traditions from the first museum
