Creative fields including artists, musicians, actors, dancers, writers, poets, and designers. Highlighting individuals who have shaped culture and the arts throughout history and today
Ilia Chavchvadze (1837 - 1907) - One of the greatest Georgian writers, and a public benefactor and leader of the national liberation movement. Born to a prominent noble family in Kvareli, he graduated from the 1st Classical Gymnasium in Tbilisi and studied law at the University of St. Pet […]
Akaki Tsereteli (1840 - 1915) - Georgian writer, public figure, and benefactor, one of the leaders of the national movement in the late 19th century. Tsereteli was born into a prominent noble family in Imereti and was related to King Solomon I of Imereti. Educated at Kutaisi Gymnasium, h […]
Salome Andronikashvili (Tbilisi 1888 - London 1982). Salome and her cousin Tinatin Jorjadze went to St. Petersburg in 1906 to study at the “Bestuzhev Courses” at the Women’s High School. During her stay in St. Petersburg, she met Zinovy Peshkov, the adopted son of the writer Maxim Gorky, […]
Zurab Tsereteli – painter, graphic artist, sculptor, monumnentalist, architect, designer, master of leaded panels, gobelens, mosaics, icon artist, goldsmith, embroiderer, pedagogue, management organizer, ambassador, collector, expert, perfectly knowing economics and museums, patron of the […]
Pirosmani or Niko Pirosmanishvili - Georgian artist, world famous for his primitivism paintings. Niko Pirosmanashvili, also known as Niko Pirosmani, was born into an impoverished peasant family in the village of Mirzaani in Kakheti. In 1870, his family moved to Shulaveri, where his parent […]
Vera Pagava (1907 - 1988) - French artist, representative of Paris Art School. She was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. In 1920 she left for Switzerland together with her family. As a result of Georgia’s annexation by the Bolshevik Russia, the Pagava family did not return to the homeland. In 192 […]
Leila Abashidze was born on August 1, 1929 in Tbilisi - died 2018 Tbilisi. Her father worked in Russia he was a high functionary, repressions held against him made him go to live the other place. Leila’s mother wanted to be near to her husband, she went to Siberia to work as a medicine wo […]
Kakhi Kavsadze was born in Tbilisi. However, shortly after, his parents left to live in Tkibuli. His father, chirmaster David Kavsadze in 1941 was mobilized to the Second World War. He served in the 224th shooting brigade of the Red Army. Then he was taken prisoner. In the Georgian priso […]
Konstantine Marjanishvili (1872 Kvareli – 1933 Moscow) - Composer and stage director. Born in Kvareli, in the family of Alexander Marjanishvili (Marjanov) and Princess Elizaveta Chavchavadze, Hegumen Tamar's brother. He began his career as a theater actor in Kutaisi and Tbilisi from 1893– […]
Vakhtang Jobadze - Historian of Georgian art (17.03.1917 Khashuri, Georgia - 2007 USA), Professor of California University, Foreign Member of the Academy of Sciences of Georgia (1966), who lived and worked in the USA. He was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. In 1940 he graduated from the Facult […]
George Balanchine (Jorj Balanchini, Giorgi Balanchivadze) (1904-1983) - American Ballet Master, founder of Classical American Ballet, son of Georgian composer Meliton Balanchivadze. He was born in Saint Petersburg. In 1921 he graduated from the Theatrical College of the Petrograd Mariin […]