This church was officially known as the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul attached to the 13th Leib-Grenadier His Majesty’s Erivan Regiment. It served as the regimental church...
Manglisi. Algetka near cave
The Algeti is a mountain river in eastern Georgia, a left tributary of the Kura. The name of the river comes from the Armenian expression “Al get”, meaning “salty river.”...
Tiflis. Avchalskaya and Nikolaevskaya streets
Avchalskaya Street bore this name until 1850. It was located in the Avlabari district of Tbilisi and received its name from the nearby settlement of Avchala. By 1903, when this...
Tiflis. Vorontsov monument
Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov (1782–1856) - a distinguished statesman and Viceroy of the Caucasus. The design for Мщкщтеыщм monument шт Tbilisi was developed by the academician of architecture Otto Simonson (1829–1914)....
Tiflis. Vera cross
The Vera Cross stood on the right bank of the river of the same name, on what was then Olga Street (now Aziz Aliyev Street), from where the Georgian Military...
Tiflis. Metekhi castle
The Metekhi Church stands on a high cliff above the Kura River—a place that, from the earliest centuries of Tbilisi’s history, was inseparably connected with Georgian statehood. According to tradition,...