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Roin Metreveli is a historian, academic, public figure, Ph. D. in History (1974), professor (1976), Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (1993). His name is connected to the publication of the Soviet Georgian Encyclopedia. He is the author of more than 300 articles and books and he was the editor of nearly one hundred books on... Read more >

Bernhard L. Mohr

Iona Meunargia

(1852-1919), a Georgian writer, critic and publicist. He was a student of Tbilisi Spiritual Seminary but was expelled as a politically unreliable young man. He continued his studies in Paris and on his return to his home country he was involved in the activities of the Georgian Society fighting illiteracy, as well as in those related to the... Read more >

Irakli Makharadze

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Nikoloz Muskhelishvili and IIia Vekua

100 Stories

Kakutsa Cholokashvili and anti-soviet uprising of 1924

Gocha Saitidze

After the defeat of the uprising organised in August 1924, Kakutsa Cholokashvili was forced to leave his homeland forever. In Georgia, conquered by Soviet Russia, any mention of this national hero... Read more >

THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA, 1918-1921, 100 STORIES

Davit Khvadagiani, Dimitri Silakadze, Irakli Khvadagiani, Rusiko Kobakhidze

On 26 May, 1918 Georgia declared its independence. The Democratic Republic of Georgia lasted for only 1028 days. The Democratic Republic was built by its citizens: politicians, soldiers, scholars,... Read more >

Dimitri Silakadze. February tanks. 1921

Dimitri Silakadze

On February 24, 1921, during the Russian-Georgian War, tanks and infantry faced off on the battlefield for the first time in Georgia and the South Caucasus. The battle took place near Tbilisi, on... Read more >