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This web site is recommended to scholars working in the humanitarian sciences, as well as to the general public interested in the history and culture of the Caucasus. It is dedicate to the fabulous Caucasian country, Georgia, the homeland of Prometeus and Medea. The Caucasus is the one of the most vivid and multiflorous, but actually unknown part of the world. At the same time, its key importance is quite obvious in many aspects of modern life. This region is located in the center of the Eastern Hemisphere, between Europe and Asia, from the West to the East and between Russia and the Near East, from the North to the South. |
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Giorgi Leon Kavtaradze Name: Giorgi Email: [email protected]
Chief Researcher at the Ivane Javakhishvili Institute of History & Ethnology, Tbilisi, Georgia Founder of the Kavtaradze Center of the Caucasian & Anatolian Studies
Websites at Facebook: Giorgi L. Kavtaradze - Official Facebook Website History, Archaeology and Ethnology in Georgia Kavtaradze Center of Caucasian & Anatolian Studies Seraphita - Journal of the Kavtaradze Center of Caucasian & Anatolian Studies Peter Paul Kavtaradze - Neurologist, Academician of Central Transcaucasia & the Outer World Giorgi Leon Kavtaraze (Facebook) George L. Kavtaraze (Facebook) Giorgi L. Kavtaraze (Facebook)
Georgia could not afford to tolerate the Asian turban, - as the Georgian issue is an important aspect of the common Eastern Question. On the fringes of Asia, Europe struggled with the East in the face of the Georgians who opposed Saracens, and therefore no political hurricane could shake its strong stance. Giorgi Leonidze. Georgian Messianism, newspaper “Bakhtrioni”, no. 2, 1922, in Georgian
Be Georgia and be Rome, As two brothers living in one house, Before the enemy, before the Persians, One by one, bound by the same cross! Seal all doors of the Caucasus, Block the way of all wild tribes! Don't let them march to the West, Put them on the strongest fire! Giorgi Leonidze. Poem "Samgori", 1947, in Georgian
Giorgi Kavtaradze. Drunken Candles, in Georgian (the only dignity of these poems is to reflect the environment and feelings in which I was formed).
Photographies of My Parents: &
Giorgi Leonidze-Museum in Patardzeuli (Sagarejo), Georgia Botkoveli - What Was Seen by My Own Eyes (in Georgian)
Giorgi Leonidze (Photographies) Autobiography (in Georgian)
Giorgi Leonidze, Leli Japharidze, Valerian Gaphrindashvili
Leonidze - a Publicist (in Georgian)
From the book: Giorgi Leonidze. The Tears of Georgia. Compiled by Nestan (Lamara) Leonidze. Tbilisi 2000 (in Georgian) From the Book: Giorgi Leonidze. The Tree of Desire. Tbilisi, 1962 (in Georgian) Scene from the movie "the Tree of Desire" (in Georgian)
Giorgi Leonidze. Phortokhala. Tbilisi, 1951 (in Georgian) Giorgi Leonidze. Samgori (Poem). Tbilisi, 1947 (in Georgian) Giorgi Leonidze. Childehood and Adolescence (Epopee). Tiflis, 1936 (in Georgian) Giorgi Leonidze. Georgian Messianism. Journal "Bakhtrioni", No. 2, 1922 (in Georgian)
Translations: From the book: Giorgi Leonidze. The Selected Poetry; 1st part. Ed.: G. Margvelashvili. Tbilisi. Publishing House Merani, 1986 (in Russian Translation); 2nd part (in Russian Translation)
Giorgi Leonidze. Dilek Ağacı (in Turkish) Giorgi Leonidze's Poetry in French Translation Giorgi Leonidze's Poetry in English Translation
Proceedings of the 4th and 5th Conferencies Dedicated to the Memory of Giorgi Leonidze. Summaries of Papers. Patardzeuli- Tbilisi, 2005 (in Georgian)
The more a person grows old, his mind increasingly returns to the past, this is quite natural. From an early age, I have a very strange trait for a normal person: disgust, intolerance, or looking from above for any type of pleasure, even for culinary purposes: Mais bread and water I have always preferred to cake and champagne. With age, this trait became stronger. I cannot fully find out whether it is genetic or the result of an upbringing - it was passed down on me by Kavtaradze, Leonidze, Turkia and Gedevanishvili families or my mother influenced me from the start; Probably both, that and other, because this trait was even more naturally and firmly rooted in her character, in her Asceticism or Spartanism. Nestan Leonidze. My Father (memories) (in Georgian)
Emzar Kvitaishvili. Giorgi Leonidze - the "Burned Servant" of Homeland and Word (in Georgian) Jibo Lomashvili. The Reminding of Giorgi Leonidze. 1997 (in Georgian) Murad Mtvarelidze. The Grief of Giorgi Leonidze. "Literaturuli Sakartvelo", 2006, 23.06 (in Georgian) Giorgi Papuashvili. My Last Meeting with Giorgi Leonidze, - Mtsvaneqvavila, #2, 2000 (in Georgian) Levan Gotua. Georgian Soil Which came as a Verse (in Georgian) Bondo Arveladze. Enemy does not Sleep ... (in Georgian) Kety Pataraia. Gogla Leonidze - Be Careful: It's History (in Georgian) Giorgi Charkviani. Leonidze (verse) (in Georgian)
Gogla (Giorgi Leonidze) at Facebook Giorgi Leonidze - Program "Memory" of the First Georgian TV Channel, 14.05.2010 (in Georgian) Giorgi Leonidze. Once More Meeting the Kipchak (in Georgian) Giorgi Leonidze - BURUSI by Tengiz Verulava (in Georgian)
Levan Leonidze - BURUSI by Tengiz Verulava (in Georgian) Levan Leonidze's Granddaughter, Maya Unapkoshvili, Tells us Family History (in Georgian) Zviad Kvaratskhelia. The Bitter Phrase of Levan Leonidze (in Georgian)
Nino Chkhikvishvili. Levan Leonidze and Maria Hoffman (in Georgian)
Maria Hoffman-Leonidze (Wife of Giorgi Leonidze's Brother), - "Autograph Studio" (in Georgian)
Nestan Leonidze - BURUSI by Tengiz Verulava (in Georgian)
Leon P. Kavtaradze (29.10.1920-16.12.1993) Leon (Leo) Kavtaradze fully embodied "beautiful souls existence in beautiful body”. His blue eyes full of life, always smiling face, endlessly caring about his students and their work. Nobody, who even at least once attended the practical lessons conducted by him, will ever forget him. I was able to learn that 90 minutes went through a fun and practical skill. With the solution of the tasks we were maximally strengthened theoretical knowledge. He was characterized by practical training in conducting his, distinctive, outstanding, method: attending homework checks, finding new typical examples and tasks to solve and homework assignments. From classes to classes the following 40-50 examples and tasks were assigned by his words: "the author of the textbook is Zuberbiller, examples to do are odd numbers from #121 to #201-up, but who find it difficult ought to do all of them“, see: L. Beridze. Matematicians in the Georgian Polytechnical Institute (1917-2014). Tbilisi: Technical University University, 2014, p. 163.
Petre Kavtaradze - BURUSI by Tengiz Verulava (in Georgian) Petre Kavtaradze and World War (in Georgian) Acad. Peter Paul Kavtaradze 1888-1966 (in Georgian) Petre Kavtaradze Street, Saburtalo, Tbilisi (in Georgian)
Giorgi Leon Kavtaradze - BURUSI by Tengiz Verulava
Giorgi Leon Kavtaradze Center of Caucasian & Anatolian Studies
Ivane Javakhishvili Institute of History & Ethnology
Giorgi Kavtaradze. Private complaint - To the Administrative Cases Panel of the Tbilisi Appeal Court (in Georgian) Giorgi Kavtaradze's Basic Claim to the Administrative Cases Panel of the Tbilisi Appeal Court (in Georgian) Appendices to the Basic Claim (in Georgian)
Cadastral map of Georgia (in Georgian) Mikhail Vardishvili - Graphic Artist (in Russian)
My House
Me - Giorgi (Bidjo Gogia) Kavtaradze
Mother - Nestan (Lamara) Leonidze
Father - Leo (Leon) Kavtaradze
Grandmother - Ephemia (Phephiko) Gedevanishvili
Grandmother's sister - Mariam Gedevanishvili-Chikovani
Grandmother - Nelly (Nalia, Neonila) Turkia
Grandfather - Giorgi (Gogla) Leonidze
Grandfather - Peter Paul Kavtaradze
Grandmother Nelly's helper - Polina Titova (refugee from Kuban, Russia)
Foster-Mother - Dr. Gisela Burger (Stuttgart)
House guard dog - Her name is Kus-kusa
Wife - Marikuna Qujo, the same Marina Qujiashvili-Kavtaradze
From the Distant Past The Gedevanishvili Family, summer 1924 First row, are sitting: Mariam Gedevanishvili-Chikovani, Alexander Gedevanishvili (on the maternal line - Tsalkalamanidze), Vakhtang Gedevanishvili, Sophie Mtskeradze-Gedevanishvili (on the maternal line - Maghalashvili, from Metekhi), Eter Gedevanishvili, Tamar Gedevanishvili,?, Second row, are standing: ?, Revaz Gedevanishvili, Eugenia Leonidze-Gedevanishvili, Luka (Luarsab) Gedevanishvili, Avtandil Gedevanishvili, ?, Ephemia Gedevanishvili-Leonidze. Avtandil Gedevanishvili (second row, third from right) my grandmother’s (mother's mother) Ephhemia Gedevanishvili's brother. Victim of the 1924 Bolshevik repression. Avtandil, Nineteen years old, gracefully build, university student, who return home after the lectures, was checked during a massive inspection by Cheka at Galavinsky prospect (now Rustaveli avenue) in early September (after the anti-Soviet uprising of August 1924). The next day, while taking out his papers back from Cheka, he ran on the staircase into Colonel Morozov, who returned him back forever with the words: „It’s immediately clear that there’s no drop of pure blood in him". It turned out to be fatal for him the aristocratic appearance. In the family as a memory from him was only left the sculpted coil of bread which he sent silently from the Metekhi prison with the inscription "to my mother", engraved on it. According to the family information, Avtandil was shot dead together with ca 800 other innocent people in Shorapani while firing from both sides machine-guns at freight wagons closed from outside: “Your torture has hurt my heart, And it is so difficult for me to be alone, I’ll fill your toast with my tears, If the wine can't fill the drinking horn!" (see: http://www.geocities.ws/komblege/gogla.htm)
”You always wear everything blue, From you I’ve my sadness and blues”. Ephemia Gedevanishvili-Leonidze, daughter of Alexander Gedevanishvili - wife of Giorgi Leonidze, see: http://www.geocities.ws/komblege/gogla.htm
Gogla – Giorgi Leonidze
Sophie, daughter of Nicholas Gulisashvili (on the maternal
line - Tamasidze) and Nicholas, son of Simeon Leonidze (on the maternal line
- Kituashvili, from Tbilisi) Leonidze family, 1899 From top left: uncle Alexi Leonidze, aunt - Tasso, nanny, Gogla (Giorgi Leonidze) himself, cousin - Tamar, uncle’s wife – her surname Agladze, father - Nicholas, brother - Simeon (Siko), mother - SophieGulisashvili, brother – Levan (Leon), sister – Eugenia
Grandfather of Giorgi Leonidze - Simeon Leonidze
Father of Giorgi Leonidze’s mother - Nicholas Gulisashvili
Peter (Petre) Kavtaradze's wife - Nelly (Neonila, Nalya), the daughter of Stephen Simeon Turkia (on the maternal line - Kitsmarishvili), the Banker and merchant of the 1st guild from Sukhumi and Chaisman Djanturaia (on the maternal line - Jorjikia
Peter (Petre) Kavtaradze
Mother of Petre Kavtaradze - Martha (Phephine), daughter of Nicholas Kiziria (on the maternal line - Norakidze), from Nosiri
Petre Kavtaradze's father - Paul (Lomkatsi's son) Kavtaradze (on the maternal line - Imedashvili, from Poti), ca 1847 (Dzveli Senaki) - 1892 (Nosiri), Staff-Captain, Chevalier of the Order of St. George, participant of the Russo-Ottoman War of 1877-1878
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I am Georgian historian and archaeologist. I attached to this text the List of Publications, Curriculum Vitae and the List of References to my Works, perhaps they would be of some help to represent myself. I have a very rich Personal Library - the result of many year's standing collecting. Here are photos of my parents - Nestan (Lamara) Leonidze & Leon Kavtaradze - as well as my wife Marina Qujiashvili-Kavtaradze's photo & drawings. See also information about the Caucasian and Anatolian Research Center founded by me.
Georgian Version of the Same Web-Site - წინამდებარე ვებ-გვერდი ქართულად
Letters from Colleagues, Messages, Recommendations Giorgi Leon Kavtaradze - Google Scholar Giorgi-Leon Kavtaradze - LinkedIn Giorgi Kavtaradze - Academia.edu Giorgi Leon Kavtaradze - Research Gate Giorgi Leon Kavtaraże - Scribd Giorgi Leon Kavtaradze Centre of Caucasian & Anatolian Studies List of professional activities (as of 2007)
TSU Research Portal_Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University TSU Research Portal_Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (in Georgian) GIORGI L. KAVTARADZE_GEORGIA_TBILISI – GLUSEUM.com Giorgi L.Kavtaradze _ FindGlocal.com Kavtaradze Center of Caucasian and Anatolian Studies _ FindGlocal.com Kavtaradze Center of Caucasian and Anatolian Studies_School&CollegeListings HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY & ETHNOLOGY IN GEORGIA_GLUSEUM.com History, Archaeology & Ethnology in Georgia _ FindGlocal.com History, Archaeology & Ethnology in Georgia_School&CollegeListings
Kura-Araxes-Kultur-Deutsch Wikipedia (deacademic.com) Kura–Araxes culture_WikiZero.com
Special Lecture Courses: 1971-1973: Special Lecture Course of Middle Eastern Archaeology - Department of Archeology of Faculty of History of Tbilisi State University (1, Avenue Ilya Djavdjavadze) 1992-1994: Special Course of Middle Eastern Archaeology - Department of Assyriology of Faculty of Oriental Studies of Tbilisi State University (36, Avenue Ilya Djavdjavadze) Participation in the 2010 Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University Competition (Materials) 2016-2018: International Black Sea University, The Syllabus of Masters Special Lecture Course: Central Transcaucasia and the Outer World (From a Diachronic Point of View). The Georgian translation of English Syllabus: ცენტრალური ამიერკავკასია და გარე სამყარო (დიაქრონიული თვალთახედვით). See: Facebook Page of the Course; University Code of the Course: CAS 101. See: LECTURE 1 – Introduction.
Participation in Scientific Forums (List) An Attempt at Dating the Starting Point of the Kura-Araxes Culture, – Humboldt Kolleg International Conference in Venice: At the Northern Frontier of Near Eastern Archaeology: Recent Research on Caucasia and Anatolia in the Bronze Age, 9-11, January, 2013. Universita Ca'Foscari Venezia, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici. Attached is a video of the report.
The Concept of Scientific Research (in Georgian) Prehistory of the Middle East (in Georgian) Problems of Old World Archaeology in the Light of Natural Sciences (in Georgian) List of Archaeological Publications of Giorgi L. Kavtaradze (in Georgian)
Donald J. Trump's Tweet, Obtained Via Facebook on March 20, 2016.
The Statue of Gagik I, King of Ani
A Note on the Questionnaire for Self-Assessment of the Staff (14.02.2019)
Matt Law, Colleen Morgan. The Archaeology of Digital Abandonment: Online Sustainability and Archaeological Sites, see: Appendix 1, no. 41 . Our treasure - Interesting Articles - Art, History, Society
Citations of Giorgi Kavtaradze's Works in Scientific Literature
KAVTARADZE-PUBLICATIONS (LIST)
Some of My Publications Available in the Web:
2. To the
Chronology of the First Phase of Central Anatolian Early Bronze Age,
in: The Conference of Aspirants and Young Scientific Workers. Ivane
Javakhishvili Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the
Academy of Sciences of Georgia. Tbilisi, 1973, pp. 10-11 3. The Problem
of Interrelation of Central Anatolian and North-Western Caucasian Early
Bronze Age Cultures, in: Classical,
Byzantine and Local Traditions in the Eastern Black Sea Littoral. All
Union Scientific Conference, May 1975: Tbilisi University Press, 1975 7. The Problem
of Interrelation of Central Anatolian and North-Western Caucasian Cultures in
the Early Bronze Age, in: Archaeology,
Classical Philology, Byzantine Studies, Proceedings of Tbilisi
University, vol. 183. Tbilisi, Tbilisi University Press, 1978, pp. 5-19 8. The Sociological
Interpretation of the "Royal Tombs",
in: Materials of the Georgian and Caucasian Archaeology, vol.
VII. Tbilisi, the State Publishing House “Metsniereba” (“Science”) of the
Academy of Sciences of Georgia, 1979, pp. 83-92 12. To the Etymology of Some
Minoan Words, in: The Conference of Young
Scientifical Workers of Tbilisi Dedicated to the 60th Anniversary
of the Foundation of Georgian Academy of Sciences. Summaries.
Tbilisi, 1981 14. The
Chronology of the Aeneolothic-Bronze Age Archaeological
Cultures of Georgia in the Light of New Data. Tbilisi,
Publishing House “Metsniereba”, 1981, 172pp., VIII pl. 16. The
Chronology of the Aeneolithic-Bronze Age Cultures of Georgia. Tbilisi,
“Metsniereba”, 1983, 165pp. 17. About the Appearance of
Hittite Tribes in Central Anatolia, in: Issues on
Georgian Archaeology, vol. III. Tbilisi,
1985, pp. 3-21 18. About the Settlement of the
Kartvelian Tribes in Anatolia. Tbilisi,
"Metsniereba" 1985, 196pp. 19. Some Aspects of the Georgian
Aeneolithic - Early Bronze Age Cultures of Georgia, in: The
Caucasus in the System of the Euroasian Paleometal Cultures, Materials of the
Symposium: "The Caucasus and South-Eastern Europe in the Early
Metal Age" (Telavi-Sighnakhi,1983). K.
Pitskhelauri & E. Chernykh (eds.). Tbilisi: Metsniereba, 1987, pp. 10-16 20. We Must
Return the Tbilisi Time, – Axalgazrda
Komunisti, 21.02.19889, p. 6 28. The Interrelation of the
Transcaucasian and Palestinian Populations (Third-First Millennia BC),
in: International Scientifical Conference: The History of the Georgian
Jews. The Problems of the Interrelation between Georgia and
Palestine and between the Georgians and the Jews". Tbilisi, 1996, pp.
32-33 30. The
Caucasian Gateway. Viewpoint, – Sakartvelos
Respublika, 05.09.1996, no. 179 31. Probleme
der historischen Geographie Anatoliens und Transkaukasiens im ersten
Jahrtausend v. Chr. (Caucasica I), in: Orbis
Terrarum, Internationale Zeitschrift für Historische
Geographie der Alten Welt, 2, 1996. Stuttgart, Franz
Steiner Verlag, 1996, SS. 191-216 32. The
Interrelationship between the Transcaucasian and Anatolian Populations by the
Data of the Greek and Latin Literary Sources, in: The Thracian
World at the Crossroads of Civilisations, I.
Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Thracology
(Constanta-Mangalia-Tulcea, 20-26 May 1996). Edited by P. Roman in
collabration with S. Diamandi and M. Alexianu. Bucharest, the Romanian Institute
of Thracology and the Publishing House Vavila Edinf SRL, 1997, pp.
352-361 33. Georgia and the Main
Caucasian Range, in: Mnatobi, 3-4,
1997, pp. 147-165 and Mnatobi, 5, pp.
103-121, 1997 Tbilisi, Merani, 1997 34. Gogla from the Proximity...
from the Distant of Years, in: Mnatobi, 7.
Tbilisi: Merani, 1997, pp. 107-118 38. Meskheti –
the Old Cradle of Gogla's Ancestors, – Literaturuli
Meskheti, 1 (January), 1999, p. 7 39. The Importance of
Metallurgical Data for the Formation of Central Transcaucasian Chronology,
in: The Beginnings of Metallurgy.
Proceedings of the International Conference "The Beginnings of
Metallurgy", Bochum 1995. Edited by A. Hauptmann, E. Pernicka, Th.
Rehren and Unsal Yalçin. Der Anschnitt, Zeitschrift für Kunst und Kultur im
Bergbau, Beiheft 9. Veröffentlichungen aus dem Deutschen Bergbau-Museum, Nr.
84. Bochum, 1999, SS. 67-101 41. The Problem
of the Identification of the Mysterious Statue from the Erzerum Museum, in: Caucasica, The
Journal of Caucasian Studies, vol. 3. Tbilisi Ivane
Javakhishvili State University, Tbilisi: Tbilisi University Press, 1999, pp.
59-66, figs. 1-10 42. An
Addressee of One of Gogla's Poems, – Literaturuli
Meskheti, 5 (17), May, 2000, 2 44. Some
Remarks About the Review of M. V. Andreeva, in: Amirani, Journal of
the International Caucasological Research Institute, vol.
III. Montréal-Tbilisi, 2000, pp. 5-33 45. Some Problems of the
Interrelation of Caucasian and Anatolian Bronze Age Cultures, in: Quaderni
di Archeologia Università di Messina 1 (1),
2000. In memoria di Luigi Bernabò Brea. Messina: Rubbettino, 2001, 107-123 46. Georgian Chronicles and the
raison d'ètre of the Iberian Kingdom (Caucasica II), in: Orbis
Terrarum, Journal of Historical Geography of the Ancient World,
6, 2000. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2001, pp. 177-237 47. Three Pages from the
Anatolian Diary, – Literaturuli
Sakartvelo, 2001, 2-8 and 9-15 October no. 44-45 (3356-3357) 51. Two Transcaucasian Ethnonyms
of Anatolian Origin, in: Caucasian and Near-Eastern Studies, X.
Tbilisi: Mematiane, 2001, pp. 39-58 52. Die frühesten Metallobjekte
in Zentral-Transkaukasien, in: Georgien – Schätze
aus dem Land des Goldenen Vlies. Katalog der Ausstellung des
Deutschen Bergbau-Museums Bochum. Hrsg.: I. Gambashidze, A. Hauptmann, R.
Slotta, Ü. Yalçin. Bochum, 2001, pp. 136-141 53. An Attempt to Interpret Some
Anatolian and Caucasian Ethnonyms of the Classical Sources, in: Sprache
und Kultur, # 3 (Staatliche Ilia Tschawtschawadse Universitaet Tbilisi
für Sprache und Kultur Institut zur Erforschung des westlichen Denkens). Tbilisi, 2002, pp.
68-83 56. The Ancient
East and the Origin of Georgians (a Review of Gregor Giorgadze’s book), in: Sprache
und Kultur, # 4 (Staatliche Ilia Tschawtschawadse Universitaet Tbilisi für
Sprache und Kultur Institut zur Erforschung des westlichen
Denkens). Tbilisi, 2003, SS. 96-99 58. The „Sense
of Existence“ of the Iberian Kingdom According to Historical Sources,
in: Mnatobi, 7-8, 2003, pp. 94-154 59. Some Problems of the
Interrelation of Caucasian and Anatolian Early Bronze Age Cultures, in: Caucasian
and Near Eastern Studies, XI, Dedicated to Mary Inadze on
her 75th Birthday. Editor: Gregor Giorgadze.
Tbilisi: Mematiane, 2004, pp. 50-96 61. The
Chronology of the Caucasus during the Early Metal Age: Observations from
Central Trans-Caucasus, in: A View
from the Highlands. Archaeological Studies in Honour of Charles Burney. Edited
by Antonio Sagona. Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Supplement 12.
Leuven: Peeters, 2004, pp. 539-556 62. Middle Transcaucasia –
A Stronghold or a Bridgehead in Modern Geopolitical Games? –
Literaturuli Sakartvelo, September 3-9, 2004, № 35
(3503), pp. 2-3 63. Instructions: How to Defend
Ourselves from Wild Beasts, -
Literaturuli Sakartvelo, October 8-14, 2004, № 40
(3508), pp. 3-4 and October 15-21, 2004, № 41 (3509), p. 3 64. Who Was a
Prototype of Chorexi? - Kalmasoba, The
Literature and Scientific Newspaper of the Shota Rustaveli Institute of
Georgian Literature and Georgian Writers, # 8
(82), 2004, p. 9 66. Daiaeni/Diaukhi and the
Georgian Political Tradition, in: The
Scientific Session Dedicated to the 150 Anniversary of Mose Janashvili. Short
Content of Papers. Tbilisi, 30 May – 2 June, The Ivane Javakhishvili
Institute of History and Ethnology of the Georgian Academy of Science.
Tbilisi: Publishing House “Mematiane”, 2005, pp. 13-18 67. Gogla – the
Prototype of Chorexi? in: The IV and
V Scientific Conference Dedicated to the Memory of Giorgi Leonidze. Short
Content of Papers. The Publications of the Museum of Giorgi Leonidze in
Patardzeuli, no. 3. Patardzeuli - Tbilisi: Publishing House “Universal”,
2005, pp. 24-25 68. Giorgi
Leonidze and the Freedom of Georgia,
in: The IV and V Scientific Conference Dedicated to the Memory
of Giorgi Leonidze. Short Content of Papers. The
Publications of the Museum of Giorgi Leonidze in Patardzeuli, no. 3.
Patardzeuli - Tbilisi: Publishing House “Universal”, 2005, 26 69. The Ancient Country of
Taokhians and the Beginnings of Georgian Statehood, in: Sprache
und Kultur, # 5-6 (Staatliche Ilia Tschawtschawadse
Universitaet Tbilisi für Sprache und Kultur. Tbilisi, 2005, pp. 92-114 70. Towards the Location of the
Ancient “Royal City” of Daiaeni/Diauxi, in: Kartvelian
Heritage, IX. Kutaisi Akaki Tsereteli State University.
Kutaisi: Publishing House of the Kutaisi State University, 2005, pp.
371-381 71. Caucasian Georgia - A
Bridgehead or a Stronghold of the Modern Geopolitical Games. A Look from the
Historical Perspective, in:
Amirani, Journal of the International
Caucasological Research Institute, XIV-XV., Montréal
– Tbilisi, 2006, pp 134-140 72. The Chronological
Interrelations of Early Bronze Age Cultures of Palestine, Anatolia and
Transcaucasia, - D.
Baazov Museum of History and Ethnography of Jews of Georgia,
Works, IV. Tbilisi, ISSN
99940- 866-7-7 73. The Carthaginians
and the Caucasus, –
Literaturuli Sakartvelo, 2006, 15 September, № 32
(3596), p. 4 74. The Problems of State
Development of Georgia (From the Earliest Times). Ibero-Caucasian
International Research Centre. Caucasiological Series, II. Tbilisi:
Universal, 2006, 245 pp. 75. Ancient
State Formations (Georgia), – The
Ortdodox Encyclopaedia, vol. XIII. Moscow, 2006 76. Some
Problems of the Historical Geography of South-Western Transcaucasia,–- Shota
Meskhia 9o. Jubilee
Volume Dedicated to the 90th Anniversary of Shota Meskhia.
Compiler-editor: Natela Vachnadze. Chief editor: Roin Metreveli. Tbilisi:
Publishing House "Nekeri", 2006, pp. 394-411 77. For the Location of
Sololaki, -
Kartvelian Heritage, vol. X. Akaki Tsereteli State University.
Kutaisi: Kutaisi State University Press, 2006, pp. 310-319 78. Towards the Location of
Ancient City-Fortresses of Tao, – Caucasian
and Near Eastern Studies, vol. XII. The volume is
Dedicated to the 70th Anniversary of Professor Manana Khidasheli.
Tbilisi, 2006, pp. 86-108 79. A Man
Showing the Way, – Spartak Jvania.
Compiler-Editor: Tamaz Pipia. Tbilisi, 2006, pp. 29-30 82. Interpretation
of the Ancient Transcaucasian Data About the Carthaginians, - Grace
Clad in Sorrow. The Present Collection of Articles is Dedicated to the Memory
of Tamar Gamsakhurdia. Editor-in-chief:
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L. Gordeziani. Tbilisi: Logos Program, 2009, pp. 113-139. ISBN
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What Awaits Georgian Villages and Monuments in Turkey? – Newspaper
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The Earliest Manuscript of “The Knight in the Panther's Skin” May Be
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How the King's Statue Was Turned into an Erzurum Fragment, –
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State University, 2009, pp. 70-74 96. Georgian
Researcher Finds Ancient Manuscript of “the Knight in the Panther Skin” in
Turkey?! – Newspaper “Georgian Word”, no. 14
(25), April 21-27, 2010, p. 10 (Maka Buachidze) 97. Some
Problems of the Ancient History of Anatolian-Caucasian Marchland, –
Scientific Paradigms, Studies in Honour of Professor Natela Vachnadze.
Editor George Tcheishvili. Georgian National Academy of
Sciences, National Committee of Georgian Historians, St. Anrew
the First-Called Georgian University of the Patriarchy
of Georgia. Tbilisi: Publishing-house “Meridiani”, 2009. ISBN
978-9941-10-222-6 98. To The
Problem of “Arian-Kartli”, – The
Proceedings of The Institute of History and Ethnology, IX. Ivane Javakhishvili
Institute of History and Ethnology. Editor-in-Chief: Vazha Kiknadze. Tbilisi:
Publishing House “Universal”, 2009. ISSN 1987-6564 99. “Arian-Kartli” – Myth or Reality? – Ilia
Chavchavadze Kutaisi International Scientific Conference Dedicated to the
300th Anniversary of Book Printing in Georgia. Kutaisi,
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Newspaper Article, – “Sakartvelos Respublika”, no.
4304; December 30, 2010 101. Where Was Mtskheta
Originally Located and What Should Its Name Mean? –
“Sakartvelos Respublika”, July 9, 2011 102. The
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Batumi: Shota Rustaveli State University Press, 2011, pp. 133-143 104. About the Ancient Location
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Proceedings of The Institute of History and Ethnology, X-XI,
2010/2011. Editor-in-Chief: Vazha Kiknadze. Ivane
Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Ivane Javakhishvili
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2012. ISSN 1987-6564 105. Interview –
Unknown Details of Gogla Leonidze's Life, – “All
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the Caucasus and Geopolitics – Past and Present, – MARIE
BROSSET 210. Sokhumi State University, Institute of Georgian History and
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End). Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2013, pp.
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Relationship between the Caucasus and the Middle East during the
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and the Problem of the Uruk Cultural Phenomenon, in: Scripta,
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978-605-4701-47-6 111. The Term
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XII-XIII, 2012/2013. Dedicated to the 75th Year Anniversary of Professor
Tamaz Beradze’s Birth. Editor-in-Chief: Vazha Kiknadze. Ivane
Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Ivane Javakhishvili Institute Of
History And Ethnology. Tbilisi: Tbilisi State University Press, 2014. ISSN
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of the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. Tbilisi, 2014, pp.
23-45. ISSN 1987-6564 113. About the
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Conference: Church of Georgia Yesterday, Today. Editor:
Bondo Arveladze. Proceedings of Caucasus International University. Tbilisi,
2016, p. 19-29 114. An Attempt
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the ‘Uruk Cultural Phenomenon’, in: At
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Tonussi (eds). Proceedings of the International Humboldt-Kolleg Venice,
January 9th - January 12th, 2013 (Publications of the Georgian-Italian Shida
Kartli Archaeological Project, 2. Supported by Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation). Subartu XXXVIII – a Peer-Reviewed Series Edited by the European
Centre for Upper Mesopotamian Studies. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers,
2017, pp. 91-112. ISBN 978-2-503-54897-5 (D/2017/0095/131) 115. About the
Identity of the “Bun-Turks” and “Hons” of the Conversion of Kartli, –
The Proceedings of the Institute of History and Ethnology, XIV-XV,
2016-2017. Editor-in-Chief: Vazha Kiknadze. Ivane Javakhishvili
Tbilisi State University Ivane Javakhishvili Institute of History and
Ethnology. Tbilisi: Tbilisi State University Press, 2018. ISSN
1987-6564 116. How was
Created Giorgi Leonidze's Poem “Childhood and Adolescence”, –
“Literaturuli Meskheti”, no. 9
(237), September 2018, pp. 28-29 (published at the end of August 2018) 117. Some
Problems Concerning the Chronology of Late Neolithic – Early Metal Age
Cultures of Caucasia, in: Context
and Connection: Essays on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East in Honour
of Antonio Sagona. Batmaz A., Bedianashvili G., Michalewicz A.,
Robinson A. (eds). Series: Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta. Leuven: Peeters,
2018, pp. 77-91. ISBN: 978-90-429-3403-0 [Unfortunately, this (no. 117) volume, published on June 28, 2018, of which I am the author of one of the articles (pp. 77-91), I have not received so far (March 29, 2020). Obviously, neither the publishing house, nor the publisher, was even going to send it!].
Funny, and Not-so-Funny, Expressions God does not need love and devotion to Him - God needs love and devotion among people! (April 12, 2020). Church for people, or people for the church- Christ or Armazi?! (March 29, 2020). What is the greatest pleasure for a man?! - To be above all pleasures! (February 12, 2020). There is the concept of “American Dream”. What should be the dream of Georgians from a Russian point of view?! (February 13, 2020).There is the concept of “American Dream”. What should be the dream of Georgians from a Russian point of view?! (February 13, 2020). Somehow they forget that Georgians, unlike some, have a strong natural requirement for fairness and justice (January 20, 2020). Ilia's assassination - an attempt to destroy Georgia's future. Who needed it?! (November 11, 2019). Instead of Russia, it is increasingly used - the north, the northern neighbor... What, the name “Russia” is forbidden to mention?! (October 16, 2019).
From a historian's point of view:
reptiles, mammals, birds are somewhat reminiscent of Semites, Indo-Europeans
and Caucasians
Non-implementation of Article 5 on the Occupied Territories with NATO perspective or the "Southossetization" of whole country?! (September 12, 2019). There are countries with the “democracy” of the type of Pithecanthropus. What you would say... (August 10, 2019). You cannot enter the same river twice, but you can enter the same puddle as many times as you wish and splash in it (December 15, 2018). The level of development of society is directly proportional to the number of decent and thoughtful people in its composition... In other words, the level of stagnation and degradation of society is directly proportional to the number of scammers and idiots (December 3, 2018). Being a nonentity is not determined by the lack of money and property, but by the spiritual state of man! (January 19, 2018). Russia is the enemy of Georgia! Anyone who does not understand this, or does not “realize” it, is either a narrow-minded idiot, or or an enemy of the country itself (March 23, 2017). “Pro-Westerners” or “pro-Russians” = supporters of Georgia's existence or its integration with Russia (November 25, 2016). The current political spectrum of Georgia is mainly distinguished by two trends (”tendency”): 1. Consisting of the supporters of the preservation of Georgian statehood, i.e. pro-Georgian or anti-Russian, which is marked and will be marked by various foreign and distant from all Georgians labels (more typical across the ocean); 2. Consisting of those "politicians" who want the actual destruction of Georgian statehood, i.e. pro-Russian or anti-Georgian, which will be more and more adorned with national, "sweet-Georgian" masks. Today is November 25, 2016. I consider the division of the Georgian political spectrum into pro-Western and pro-Russian today as an excessive complication of the problem. In fact, everything is much simpler: on the one hand there are proponents of preserving Georgia's statehood, and on the other hand, who are still seeking to restore a united political (and so on) space with Russia. The point is that Georgia alone, outside of the outside world, conventionally called the West, will not be able to cope with pressure from the north and survive its own statehood (September 18, 2016). From today's point of view, the world, primarily its civilized part, is facing a great danger that no one is talking about. I mean the so-called mass panic in the population. The existence of a dirty (radiological) bomb that is much simpler and more efficient to use in big cities than missile-propelled nuclear weapons and would be easily dealt within the phenomenon of the so-called hybrid wars. Although given the political conjuncture of the day, neither the identity of the user of the "dirty bomb" nor the "customer" of its use will be difficult to guess (though the "performer" will festively declare about his involvement, so that no one would be left in doubt), accordingly, only delayed response, if any, would be available. One thing is really hard to find on Earth, - the model of thinking that can take such an insidious brutal plan (unfortunately, I think I am one of those exceptions), and implement it. Therefore, I hope that all of the above is the fruit of my excitement and has nothing to do with reality (December 13, 2015). Lately, one notable trend has become more apparent (at least from my perspective), the less the Georgian speaks Russian and isn’t familiar with Russian culture, more and more he becomes a devout and unshakeable Russophile. This circumstance seems to be caused by the existence of a "provincial syndrome", since there is a second, but diametrically opposite, tendency... Thus for the so-called soft power of Russian-imperialist politics becomes actual not so much Russian language and culture promotion among the Georgians as the further decline and descent of the overall level of education and knowledge in Georgia, which is easily achieved by the actual destruction of academic institutions and educational institutions (June 7, 2015). Our life is like a scene, and reality is before entering the stage, and after the performance, behind the scene, it comes back again... (November 25, 2013). Evil is like a sanitary - as a wolf picks weak lambs out of a lamb shed and takes away the possibility of their reproduction, satan chooses the weak in spirit and destroys their future... (November 25, 2013). When characterizing Russia's foreign policy, it is often used the cliche that it is "unpredictable." This, in our view, is wrong: Russia's policy is quite predictable, it has always been aimed at expanding its “limits” towards the least resistance, absorbing everything that “lies badly”, that is, those countries that do not have the strength and will to resist. In fact, “unpredictable” is the policy of the international community (represented by successful "Western" countries) - it is very difficult to determine how much and at what price they are sometimes ready to put up with the aggressive thoughts of the Kremlin leaders and concede to them in one episode or another of political confrontation (November 20, 2013).
on the right bank of the Karchkhali river, on the rocky mountain cape. Further up there is the village of Shua (middle) Forta. "Nuke's church" or "Luke's church" - which is right?! Cf., e.g., alternating l and n consonants in the same region (Klarjeti-Shavsheti): Ligani Gorge < Nigali Gorge, village Lionidze < village Niolidze. There is no need to refer to Luka as St. Luke. Luka / Nuka may have been a builder, a priest, etc. (October 22, 2012).
It is easy to speculate that if not the help of the West, primarily the United States, Tbilisi would have long been a victim of Russian generals. Therefore, nothing but surprise causes the expression spread in our so-called “patriotic circles” that "Osman and Alia are both Tatars!", which means that there is no choice, - both are the same and that in order to preserve our nationality and freedom, both Russia and the United States should leave us alone. As if America, like Russia, invaded our country, arranged here military bases, placed there occupational forces and kept alleged "peacemakers" in regions captured from us; and at the same time totally undermine our daily activities and try to wipe, destroy and exterminate the environment. Consequently, we must strive to free our homeland from both of them. Most interestingly, this expression is almost always only addressed to Americans. As can be seen, the speakers seem to be hoping that Osman (that is, America) will go to “his home”, in the western hemisphere of the Earth, that is, he will eventually turn his back on us and that Alia (or Russia) will remain a “ball and a pitch”. This lesson was already successfully learned in 1920, when we banished the “English imperialists”, and after that we could only withstand half a year. After that, there were puddles of blood in Georgia for a long time... Giorgi Kavtaradze. Instruction: How to Get Rid of Predatory Animals, - “Literaturuli Sakartvelo”, October 2004, № 40-41. Life is Art, but Death – Creativity, for some Men (November 3, 1975).
Giorgi L. Kavtaradze speech delivered at the presentation of the book launch of Vazha Kiknadze, “The Eurasian State of Georgia in the Fourteenth Century (the Mongol Era and Its End)”, held on 21th of March, 2013 at the Ilya Chavchavadze National Parlamentary National Library of Georgia in Tbilisi (Read by Dr. Nino Lazrishvili): Ladies & Gentlemen, I belong to people who believe that some events in our life are predetermined by our fate. Now I would like to recall an episode from my childhood. I was about 10-12 years old when the greatest pleasure for me was reading books on the history, instead of doing my homework. My grandfather, bringing my grandmother and mother to fury, strongly encouraged my passion, choosing me the books which I needed according to his opinion, among them were books of the so-called anti-Soviet character, too. He spent much time with me, explaining their meaning and discussed various aspects of the Georgian and not only of the Georgian history. He used to say, that there is a lack of evidence about the time of king Giorgi the Brilliant and therefore the circumstances of the end of Mongol rule in Georgia are the least known. To do everything possible to end the foreign domination was for the Georgians always the most desirable type of activity. I think now that he had in his mind the words of Niccolo Machiavelli:”Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.” He demanded of me to try to fill this gap, if I would become a historian. But at that time, when I became a historian, I was very impressed by the problems of ethnogenesis, so my grandfather’s request, and even the memory about it, was completely erased from my mind. But from your fate there is no escape! Last summer, I received a very honorable to me offer from Professor Vazha Kiknadze to write the Commendatory Foreword to his monograph, “The Eurasian State of Georgia in the Fourteenth Century (the Mongol Era and Its End)". The monograph by Professor Kiknadze namely covers a very crucial time in Georgian history, the days of king Giorgi V the Brilliant, who released Georgia from Mongolian domination and reunited the country, so I finally got a chance to go a little closer to the time of king Giorgi the Brilliant. Dr. Kiknadze’s book was published this January in the United States of America by Edwin Mellen Publishers and I’m very glad that I now have the opportunity to say a few words about it. The fourteenth century AD is a period of Georgian history which has few written sources or other contemporary documentary materials. In addition to the surviving Georgian and well-known foreign written sources, Professor Kiknadze makes use of previously unknown manuscripts examined by him (i.e. Georgian synaxarions of the 13th and 14th centuries from the libraries of St Petersburg and the unpublished manuscripts of the most famous Georgian historian of last century, Ivane Javakhishvili). On the basis of these materials, first brought to light for scholarly analysis and interpretation by the author and using all existing primary sources together with materials of different types, Dr. Kiknadze restores the complex internal and external political processes that occurred in Georgia since the late 13th century to the late 14th century – the time of the invasions of Tamerlane, etc., and puts forward a quite new vision of the events of historic character of this period. The author has actually managed to restore our past, the period of the history of Georgia most shrouded in mist; he has succeeded in running back the pages of history, which were considered as forever lost, not only to history, but also to a wide circle of readers. This past has a special value for us, – it explaines not only our history, but determines the subsequent development of our state, which is once again on the verge of two very different worlds – Central Eurasia and its periphery, also referred to as the Inner Crescent – already Pliny the Elder (Plinius Magnus), in the first century, mentioned that the Caucasian Gates (i.e. Darial Gorge) divides the world in two distinct parts (NH, VI, XII, 30). It should be noted that Kiknadze’s book came at the most right time. By the opinion of our colleagues: “as the collapse of the Soviet system and the historical methodologies it had promoted and enforced left a vacuum in the successor states, it became obvious that new approaches, rethinking and interpreting of national narratives were needed” (Eka Avaliani) – Vazha Kiknadze’s work fully meet these requirements. Quite recently, Professor Kiknadze’s monograph has been awarded by The Adèle Mellen Prize for its distinguished contribution to scholarship. This book is rated as “the first and only detailed study of Fourteenth Century Eurasia, an often neglected period in history”. By the way, the monograph of Professor Kiknadze is the first book published in the United States by a professional Georgian historian. The significance of this fact is difficult to overestimate. Taking into consideration the vastness of the territory conquered by the Mongols from Japan to Egypt and from Indochina to Poland and the significant role they played in the history of the whole of Eurasia, I think that the English-speaking reader will be interested in becoming acquainted with the topic of Mongol rule in Georgia. I would like to express as well the hope that in the future as Professor Kiknadze, so other his Georgian colleagues, will have again and again new opportunities to present a long and rich history of Georgia to the interested readers around the world.
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