A "chuvyachnik" is an obsolete term for a cobbler who makes chuvyaki. Chuvyaki (or chevyaki) are a traditional soft leather footwear that was common in the Caucasus, Persia (Iran), Transcaucasia,...
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Tiflis. Classical gymnasium
The Classical Gymnasium in Tiflis was one of the most famous educational institutions in the Caucasus during the XIX and early XXth centuries. The history of this establishment began in...
Vano Sarajishvili
Vano Sarajishvili was an outstanding Georgian opera singer (lyric tenor), one of the key figures in the formation of professional operatic art in Georgia. Sarajishvili was born in 1879 into...
Tiflis. Tatar family
The Tatars are a Turkic-speaking people living across the territory of Eurasia. From the X century until 1927, the Tatars used a writing system based on Arabic script. Between 1928...
Caucasians. Adоarians
The Adjarians are an ethnographic group of Georgians and the indigenous population of Adjara, an autonomous region in southwestern Georgia with its administrative center in Batumi. The Adjarian dialect of...
Khevsur in armor with gun
The Khevsurs are an ethnographic group of Georgians who for centuries lived in the harsh highlands of Khevsureti (north of Tbilisi, right by the main Caucasus range). Even in XIX...