Mikheil Javakhishvili Museum: historical heritage in Georgia.

The museum keeps memorabilia, documents and photographs reflecting the life and activities of Georgian writer, journalist, public and political figure Mikhail Javakhishvili (1880-1937). The museum was founded in 1987.

Mikhail Javakhishvili was educated at the University of Paris. His first story "Chanchura" (1903) was published in the newspaper "Tnobis purcelli" (News Sheet). He edited the newspaper Iveria (1904). A fighter against injustice, Mikhail Javakhishvili was persecuted both in tsarist Russia and by the Soviet authorities. He was considered one of the founders of the Georgian realistic novel of the twentieth century. He wrote the pearls of Georgian prose "White Collar", "Kurka's Wedding", "Kvachi Kvachantiradze", "Arsen of Marabda", "Djako's Migrants" and others.

British literary scholar Donald Rayfield compares the style, humor, hidden irony and moral pathos of Mikhail Javakhishvili with the qualities of Stendhal, Maupassant and Zola. Mikhail Javakhishvili translated works by Guy de Maupassant, H. Senkevich, A. Chekhov and others.

Mikhail Javakhishvili was one of the founders of the National Democratic Party of Georgia. In 1922-1924 he was a member of the Committee of Independence of Georgia and actively participated in the preparation of the 1924 uprising. Eventually, in 1937, the Bolsheviks executed Mikhail Javakhishvili. He was accused of facilitating the escape to Germany of the writer Grigol Robakidze and of openly supporting the characterization of Georgian writers contained in André Gide's book Retour de L'URSS. Mikhail Javakhishvili was actually sentenced to death by his fellow Georgian writers. On July 22, 1937, when the poet Paolo Iashvili committed suicide in protest in the building of the Union of Writers, the meeting of the Union of Writers adopted a resolution in which Paolo's action was considered an anti-Soviet provocation. Mikhail Javakhishvili was the only one who disagreed with the resolution. Four days later, on July 27, the Presidium of the Writers' Union voted for the following resolution: "Mikhail Javakhishvili, spy and saboteur, to be expelled from the Writers' Union.