In the mid-6th century, the decline of Georgian spiritual and cultural values reached its apogee. This state of affairs was conditioned by the political situation. Although the Iranians did not succeed in completely converting the Georgians to Mazdeanism, monophysite Christianity began to spread among them in opposition to the relationship with Byzantium. The Armenian church, as the principal monophysite institution, assumed a leadership role among the churches of the Transcaucasian nations occupied by Iran. It thus was able to extend its sphere of influence to non-armenian provinces, including Georgia.

If we throw a glance through the main - Eurasian - part of the Eastern Hemisphere we can easily find Transcaucasia, located between two seas. It has quite an extraordinary, I dare say, even central position on the Hemisphere. In the north of it, across the Great Caucasian Range, is situated typical northern country - Russia, in the south - genuine Middle Eastern Turkey and Iran, in the west the Black Sea divides it from Eastern Europe, and in the east - the Caspian Sea from Central Asia.

Im Zuge der Aktivitäten der „Senatskommission zur Erforschung der Geschichte der Universität Jena im 20. Jahrhundert” im Hinblick auf die Gründung der Universität vor 450 Jahren (1458-2008) wird 2006 ein umfangreicher Studienband erscheinen, der neueste Beiträge zur Geschichte einzelner Fächer, bedeutender Persönlichkeiten und historischer Entwicklungen an der Universität Jena versammelt. Trotz des breit angelegten Themenspektrums wird es vorraussichtlich keinen Beitrag zur Geschichte des Faches Kaukasiologie in Jena geben.

The article is dedicated to the life and activity of the National Hero of Georgia, leader of the National-Liberation Movement of Georgia in 1921-1924, Colonel of the National Army of the Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918-1921), famous representative of the Georgian Political Emigration in France in 1924-1930, Prince Kaikhosro (Kakutsa) Cholokashvili (1888 – 1930).