Houses-museums of famous Georgian figures. Alexander Chavchavadze House Museum.
The house-museum of the famous poet Alexander Chavchavadze houses about twenty thousand items affecting the life and creative activity of Alexander. There is a souvenir shop on the ground floor of the museum, and in the main part you will find photographs, documentary collections, personal belongings, manuscripts and so on.
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Address: Telavsky district, Tsinandali village
The museum was built in 1886 by architect A. Ozerov and is located in the Alexander Chavchavadze Palace, where up to 20 thousand exhibits, materials reflecting the life and work of the poet, as well as the epistolary and iconographic archives of the modern era are collected.
Various editions of the nineteenth century (French, German, English, Polish, Armenian), manuscripts of the XVIII century, photographs by D. Ermakov, samples of paintings and lithographs, as well as Georgian, Russian, French furniture of the XVIII-XIX centuries, other household items, dishes (Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Georgian, Russian), musical instruments.
Poet, translator, military commander, diplomat, large landowner, public figure and innovator, Alexander Chavchavadze (1786-1846) was one of the important figures of his era. He was respected both in Georgia and in the Russian Empire. Alexander Chavchavadze was the godson of the Russian Empress Catherine II. Alexander Chavchavadze was in military service (Lieutenant General) and was a member of more than one important military expedition. He fought against Napoleon (he was an aide-de-camp to Barclay de Tolly). It should also be noted that despite his proximity to the imperial court, Alexander Chavchavadze took part in the uprising of 1804 and in the conspiracy of 1832.
Alexander Chavchavadze is considered the founder of romanticism in Georgian poetry. He translated numerous works of Aesop, Voltaire, Pushkin and others into Georgian. Alexander Chavchavadze was the first landowner who processed Georgian wine in a European way. His wine cellar continues to exist today. The museum houses 16,500 bottles of wine of various varieties.
On the ground floor of the museum there is a souvenir shop, which presents souvenirs related to the museum and the Kakheti region, a copy of a handkerchief embroidered by Nina Chavchavadze, copies of finds discovered as a result of archaeological excavations, etc.
It should be noted separately the garden in Tsinandali. Alexander Chavchavadze was the first to invite decorative garden specialists from Europe and began to plant a park in the Tsinandali estate. The park is interesting by the principle of its planning. Some experts compare it with English parks such as Richmond and Kew. In 1887, the alteration and enrichment of the decorative park began, and Arnold Regel, a great master of landscape art from St. Petersburg, was invited to draw up his plan.
In 2008, after the restoration, the renovated exhibition halls have already become the site of more than one important exhibition of works by Georgian and foreign authors – Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Pete Mondriani, Elena Akhvlediani, Dmitry and Sandro Eristavi, Sergo Kobuladze and others.
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