
Sukhumi. Ellada and Tarlo pension
The building of the “Ellada” hotel-pension (now an architectural monument) is located on Papaskir street
The PostCards.ge web site presented for your attention is the result of lengthly and painstaking conversion of old postcards into a digital format, systematisation and cataloguing of the immense collection was engendered for those, who are passionate about the history of Georgia and the Caucasus.
Who may find this site useful?
Scientists, researchers, collectors, owners of antique postcards and those wishing to buy them, the admirers or connoisseurs of history…
Amiran Gudzhabidze. A man boundlessly enamoured of his country, thoroughly versed in its history from times immemorial, a man, who treaded every mile of every Georgian road so as to better understand how the country developed across the ages and what it had become. Years ago, wishing to make his own contribution to the study of his homeland, the impassioned photographer began to collect the first postcards dedicated to his beloved motherland, her landmarks, her traditions.
In the course of a quarter of a century, his Georgian collection became the largest in the world…
The building of the “Ellada” hotel-pension (now an architectural monument) is located on Papaskir street
Bakuriani, the oldest ski resort in the Caucasus, traces its history back to the late
The Oriental hotel was designed by architect Alfred Bammé in 1908. The two-story, U-shaped building