2012 Volume 24 On a motif in Georgian Iconography Entry date: 2007-01-27 Author(s): Paata Bukhrashvili |
A distinctive Georgian Christianity, incorporating national ideology as well as religion, developed and spread in medieval Georgia. At this time, according to some, religious and national ideals were not separable One prominent feature of Georgian Christianity is the cult of the warrior saint, in particular, that of St. George, which emerged in the official Georgian Orthodox Church in the 9th century, and which some specialists have linked to the consolidation of the feudal monarchical order and its promotion of an idealized notion of the warrior. |
2012 Volume 24 Raymond Duguet - unmasker of Bolshevism Entry date: 2007-01-27 Author(s): Maïa Varsimashvili-Raphael |
The interest about Russian civilization, culture, its past and present life is very high in France. French readers are provided with plenty of information by literary translations, documentary sources, scientific and critical thinking about this country, which are attracted and scared at same time. The second half of the 19th century, Dostoevsky's novel, which opposes the Zola novel, opened the way to real literary "Russomania". This phenomenon was also connected with Russia-France's political alliance since 1896 - grandiose reception of Tsar Nicholas II in France by Félix Faure - to the First World War, reached the culmination.
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2012 Volume 24 About Historical-Geographical and Belonging Of David-Gareja Monastery Complex Entry date: 2007-01-27 Author(s): David Merkviladze |
After the occupation of South Caucasus by Soviet Russia the new borders between the Georgian and Azerbaijan Soviet Republics was made. As a result, a part of David-Gareja monastery complex (the monasteries: Bertubani, Udabno and partly Chichkhituri) appeared the Azerbaijan’s side. In nowadays this part of state border is not delimited and regarded as the disputed territory.
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2012 Volume 24 The image of Assyrian Fathers on Breti Fresco Entry date: 2007-01-27 Author(s): Thea Kobakhidze |
St. Pyrrhus of Breti was one of the Assyrian monks who established monastic institute in Georgian reality.
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