The term "Zena Sopheli" (Upper Country) appears in the ancient Georgian stories edited by Leonti Mroveli. According to these stories, Zena Sopheli must be the oldest name of Shida Kartli (Inner Georgia). Zena Sopheli is referred to in other Georgian sources, such as the sequel of "Vakhtang Gorgasali`s life", also in various hagiographical stories: "lives" of Syrian Fathers (Ioane Zedazneli, Shio Mgvimeli, Abibos Nekreseli) and "Martirium of Kostanti the Georgian". The term "Georgian upper country" is mentioned in the anonymous Armenian Geography of the 7th century.

Georgian and Ukrainian peoples strived to build relations from the ancient times. From 1801 when Georgia was gradually integrated in Czarist Russia, these relations acquired even stronger basis. Georgian students in Russia and the Ukraine were in close relations with the Ukrainian young people and public figures. Georgian students studying in the cities of the Ukraine took active part in the social life of the country.

In 1910-1920-ies, the cultural life of Tbilisi is very important event in the history of modern Georgian art.
In the beginning of XX, century Georgian art was already ready for adopting new different tendencies of the modern art. Georgian artists tried to base the achievements of European and Russian modern arts on their own cultural ground. At this period in Tbilisi was going very intensive artistic and literary every-day life. There were a lot of artistic unions, organizations and avant-garde groups in Tbilisi.

"Marjah" - adroitly, lively, valorously - with this expression our brother Weinakhs encourage dancers performing their steps in the mystery of the dance; the dance in which a nation’s, a people’s genius is expressed (Grigol Robakidze), for it is the call of a soul to union with God, the cry of blood resounding across the millennia and reaching to the present; even as its incorporator, performer.