"The Man in the Panther’s Skin" was written during the most brilliant epoch of Georgian history and was a demonstration of its high cultural development. This was the period of the twelfth and the most powerful Georgian feudal state, which reached its zenith during the reign of Queen Tamar (1184-1213), and its territory, including the vassal countries, stretched from the Black Sea up to the Caspian Sea.

The stability of the country’s economy and the progress of the social and political system prepared the conditions for a great cultural flowering. The development of philosophy, history, philology. Literature, architecture, along with the arts of miniatures, cloisonné enamel and gold, frescoes and so on give us the right to assume that "The Man in the Panther’s Skin" is not the product of the inspiration of only one genius, but is the logical manifestation of the cultural potency of the nation.