(1881-1941), a Georgian scientist, archaeologist, ethnographer, the founder and first director of the Zugdidi Museum (later called the Historical and Architectural Museum of the Dadiani Palace). He studied archaeology, ethnography, cartography, philology, folklore and art in England. Later he collected geological and paleontological... Read more >
A Georgia poet, prose writer, translator, scholar and publicist living in Turkey. Educated as a journalist, for many years he worked on various encyclopedic editions, also translated many poems, novellas and historical novels. He was the founder and editor of a Turkish-Georgian magazine Pirosmani, published in Turkey. Artanuji has... Read more >
Born in 1939, Gela Charkviani is a Georgian diplomat, educator, writer and television personality. He was born into the family of Candide Charkviani, the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia, and Tamar Jaoshvili, an ophthalmologist. In 1957 he finished school in Moscow... Read more >
Mikheil Javakhishvili’s novel “Jako’s Dispossessed” is one of the most important examples of Georgian writing of the 20th century. In the way of its study, along with many... Read more >
The fate of Polish officer Karol Kalinowski closely mirrored that of many of his compatriots in the 1840s, who were punished by the Russian Empire for fighting for their country’s... Read more >