ISBN: 978-9941-504-75-4
Category: Academic Publications
Pages: 1032
Format: 16.5x23.5
Published: 2023
Cover: Hard
Price: 49.95
The book chronologically presents the 50-year scientific work of Givi Eliava, the founder of the Martvili Museum of Local Lore (today the Givi Eliava Martvili Museum of Local Lore). Work’s about Samegrelo, including the pre-establishment and the next 40-year history of the Martvili Museum of Local Lore, scientific and creative life of the museum, close relations with outstanding scientists and artists of Georgia and abroad. The publication brings together Givi Eliava's epistolary legacy, which makes visible the bureaucratic contradictions, as well as the scientific and human support that filled the museum's life. In his works, the researcher broadly reviews the perspective of multifaceted use of the natural and historical attractions of the richest region of Samegrelo - Martvili municipality, which the author thought about and took care of long before Georgia became a a popular country among tourists.