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 >
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 >
Anna Kalandadze (1924-2008), the 20th century great Georgian woman poet, is translated into major European languages, including Arabic and Turkish. A ballad-like quality of her poems, with complex... Read more >
Western “soft powers” – be they American jazz or cinematography, literature or rock n roll – sped up the initial exposure and final demise of the soviet ideology; It... 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 >
