The Literature of Georgia — A History by Donald Rayfield ART these shards tell the story

these shards tell the story of how a seemingly ordinary Jewish family somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century

This richly illustrated publication documents this exhibition as well its surrounding festival program

the printed book

His writings on his 43 years in the Soviet Union offer a rare insight into life as a quietly subversive art historian and the post-Stalin dissident community

И количество героев только росло — потому что война никак не заканчивается

The Literature of Georgia — A History by Donald Rayfield ART these shards tell the storyAcross the ages Georgia has joined the great civilization of north and south as much as east and west. Despite prolonged subjection to Byzantine, Iranian and Russian overloads for more than fifteen hundred years, its literary language has evolved to produce a broad corpus of literature that has given rise to such extraordinary works as The Knight in the Panther's skin, to poets of genius and originality such as the anonymous hymnographers of Byzantine