About Rustaveli Avenue

1. Presented by Nini Kvedelidze
Mariam Goginashvili
Nini Chvamania
Teacher: Khatia Tsirekidze
Tbilisi Sightseeings
Rustaveli Avenue

2. Rustaveli Avenue is named after
Georgian Poet Shota Rustaveli

3. In 19 century It was called as Golovinskii Avenue
by Vorontsov, the Tsar's viceroy in the Caucasus

4. a large number of governmental, public, cultural, and
business buildings are located along or near the
avenue.

5. The children’s Palace

6. Temple of Glory
It was an army Museum to display the achievements of
Soviet Union in Caucasus. Today the building is used as
an Art gallery

7. The Art gallery
here you can see

8. Niko Firosmanashvili’s
masterpiece
1st -Fishermen in a red shirt
2nd -At night

9. Giraffe and The feast with barrel
organic Datiko

10. Elene Akhvlediani’s Works

11. Lado Gudiashvili’s Works
Kinto with woman
Black Glove

12. Davit Kakabadze’s Work
Imereti my Mother

13. The former Parliament of
Georgia building

14. School # 1

15. It was founded in 1902 to prepare sons of the
Georgian nobility for the Russian civil service
This structure
burned down
completely in
the Tbilisi war
in 1991 .

16.  Soon It was completely restored.And now on the
front lawn there is a monument to ilya
chavchavadze and akaki tsereteli Georgian
writers of the 19th century

17. Kashveti Church

18.  Video

19. Kashveti’s frescoes were painted by the
influential Georgian painter, Lado Gudiashvili, in
1947.

20. Definition : Kashveti
ქვა _ a stone
შუა - to give birth
Legend says
In the 6th century Assyrian monk david of Gareja
was accused by a woman that she was pregnant
by the monk.
David prophesied that she would give birth to a
stone. She did and the place received the name
of "kashveti."

21. the Simon Janashia Museum of
Georgia

22. Until 1919 the museum of Georgia was called the
Caucausian Museum. It was founded on the
Initiative of the German explorer Gustav Raddle
in 1865

23. Noe Kipiani was the first director of
the museum
.

24. A bulk of its collection was returned to Georgia by
the efforts of the Georgian scholar Ekvtime
Takaishvili in 1945
Khakhuli Icon

25. In 1947, the Museum was named after
the late Georgian historian Simon
Janashia
The Museum houses thousands of artifacts, including:

26. An earliest Human Fossils found in
Dmanisi: Zezva and Mzia

27. a collection of approximately 80,000
coins, chiefly of Georgian minting

28. Shukhuti's mosaic that dates from
the 4th-5th century

29. one of the world’s richest collection
of Urartian inscriptions

30. Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre

32. Rustaveli State Academic
Theater

33. Georgian Academy of Sciences

34. Founders were
Giorgi Akhvlediani (linguistics)

35. Arnold Chikobava (Ibero-Caucasian
languages)

36. Simon Janashia (history)

37. Korneli Kekelidze (philology)

38. Why do we need to know this?
See the interview with the
tourist

40. References:
Google search
Wikipedia.org
Georgianabout.com

41. Thank you For your Attention