Ilia Odishelidze was born in 1865, on the 25th of March. He graduated
from Cadets’ Corpus in Tbilisi and continued studying at Alexander III
Moscow Military Academy.
In 1891-1894 he was studying at the General Staff ...
Conspiracy of the Georgian patriots against Russia was not a conspiracy
in typical sence, as all the active classes were involved into. Structurally,
conspirators formed network of different circles, led by main body ...
Debatable anti-Muslim story “Muhammad Story…” represents the
dialogue through psalms. The text stored at the National Center of Manuscripts
consists of eight papers. Ideological confrontation is the main reason for ...
The article discusses the issues of firearm used in Late Feudal Georgia.
Special attention is payed to the letters of king Erekle II to prince Muraviov and
general Totleben, where the interesting accounts are preserved ...
In the this article with the help of the new methodology we try to clarify
the size of Tbilisi territory, the number of its population and the density. In the
last two centuries the drastic changes had occuried in the ...
The article deals with studying of theoretical problems of history in the
20th century Georgian historiography.
The initiator of theoretical studies of history in Georgia was Ivane
Javakhishvili. Grigol Natadze also ...
Caucasus as a cultural and geographical area is one of the main objects of
Georgian thinking. The so-called “Georgian perception” of Caucasus, naturally,
is not a simple sphere without opposition. According to the whole ...
Conspiracy (1765) of Prince Paata Bagrationi (1720-1765), son of
Vakhtang VI, king of Kartli (central part of Georgia), is one of less known
events of the second half of the 18th century.
According to the observation ...
Manuscript production in Georgia has a centuries-old history. Georgian
medieval churches and monasteries, where generations of medieval bookmen
and calligraphers carried out their activities, have played significant role ...
There are two versions about bringing the divine icon of Christ to Georgia
in the Georgian holy writings of the 12th-13th cc., especially in hymnography.
According to one version, this type, prototype for famous ...
The paper deals with the issues of vassalage in the High Feudal epoch of
Georgia, and how we understand the seigneurial system, and that kind of
parallels are between the Georgian vassalage and the Western European
feudalism, ...
Research of history, ethnology, condition of language of historical South-
West Georgia has become quite intensive within last twenty years. The main
reason of this is restoration of Georgia’s statehood and friendly ...
Athenaios and Appian record about Chians’ deportation to Colchis by
Mithridates VI Eupator, king of Pontus. These notes show the Chian upperclasses
as pro-Roman while Mithridatic Wars; lower classes support the Pontic
king. ...
Like other Greek settlements in Western Georgia, Pichvnari was founded
by the Milesians. Archaeological evidences prove Ionian presence in Pichvnari
in the 6th c. B.C. Also, onomastic similarity between Miletus and ...
The paper discribes the historical-ethnographic picture of Ephrati – one
of the communities of Zemo (Upper) Machakheli. The work is based on the
field-ethnographic material and the existed scholarly literature. The ...
The work deals with suluguni – a very special element of the Georgian
diet. Suluguni is a specially cooked “Imeretian (West Georgian) cheese”. There
are efforts made by Abkhaz and Ossetian authors to relate the provenance ...