Houses-museums of famous Georgian poets. Visit the house-museum of Akaki Tsereteli.
Although the house-museum of Akaki Tsereteli is unremarkable from the outside, the collection inside is sure to amaze you. Within the walls of the museum is stored more than seven thousand personal belongings of the poet and his ancestors. Here you will see interesting accessories, clothes, furniture, a rich library, paintings of the poet, photographs and much more.
The museum of the Georgian poet, writer, publicist and public figure Akaki Tsereteli is located in the family palace of the Tsereteli family, of which Akaki himself writes in his autobiographical work "My Adventures" as follows: "On the bank of the Chikhura River, on a height stands a two-story house built of limestone and stone. This ugly building has the height of a small tower, the length of a hall and the thickness of a fortress, yet it is like none of them."
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The poet died in this palace, which almost from that moment became a memorial house. The museum was founded in 1940, its funds include more than 7 thousand personal belongings of the poet and his ancestors - accessories, clothes, furniture produced in the first half of the 19th century in France, Italy and Germany, tableware (Russian production "Kuznetsov"), library (publications of different period in Georgian, Russian and French), manuscripts of the poet and other public figures, "Vita Kartli" transcribed in the first half of the 19th century, Sulhan Saba Orbeliani dictionary and others.
Akaki Tsereteli started to write poems in his youth and at the age of 18 was already the author of several published poems. He deserves huge credit for creation and activity of the Society of Literacy among Georgians, Georgian Drama Theater and Georgian journalism.
Songs written to his poems, such as "Suliko," "Tsitsinatela," "Chonguri," and others have won universal popular acclaim and are especially popular around the world. The lines of his poem "My icon is my homeland..." became the basis of the national anthem of Georgia.
The Georgian people recognized Tsereteli as a true national poet even during his lifetime. 2012 was the 100th anniversary of "Akaki Tsereteli's Journey to Racha-Lechkhumi" (the first Georgian documentary film), which preserved the living face of Akaki Tsereteli.
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