After graduating from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi University and receiving Ph.D. in History, Zurab Batiashvili worked in the Georgian Parliament, the European Department of the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Turkish Embassy in Tbilisi. At present he works in the Council of Security and Crisis Management of Georgia. He has... Read more >
A literary historian and critic, Ph.D. in Literature (2005), Member of Gelati Academy (2003), Laureate of The Literary Saba Award (three times). He was born in 1947 in Tkibuli, west Georgia. After finishing school in his native town, in 1965-74 he studied Georgian Philology and Journalism in Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi University. At... Read more >
Rustam Raza was born in 1782 in Tbilisi to Armenian parents. He was kidnapped at the age of thirteen and sold in Cairo, where the sheikh presented him to Napoleon Bonaparte in 1798.... Read more >
In January 2018, Tochinoshin Tsuyoshi, also known as Levan Gorgadze, became the first Georgian and the third European to celebrate a tournament victory and lift the Emperor’s Cup. From that... Read more >
Readers are well aware that Galaktioni’s life was unusual and extraordinary. But where does the line lie between the circulating legends and the truth? You won’t find the answer to... Read more >
Ketevan the Martyr – this is how the 17th-century Queen of Kakheti was established in Georgian consciousness. Her martyrdom was so impressive that, unlike many holy martyrs in... Read more >
Colonel Stephen Burnashev, who was an extraordinary envoy of Catherine II at the courts of Erekle II and Solomon I, and, at the same time, the commander of the Russian army in Georgia according to... Read more >
