The ensembles Rustavi and later Georgian Voices were particularly active in presenting rich polyphony of various regions of Georgia to western audiences.

Beginning as an a cappella troupe that performed working, table, and ritual songs, as well as Georgian Orthodox liturgical chants, in 1990 the group was joined in performance by Aleko Khizanishvili and his trio of instrumentalists who play Salamuri and Panduri.

Although Hotel Imperial reportedly fared well at the box office, her next film Barbed Wire ( 1927 ) and a number of her subsequent films performed poorly in the United States due to the poor publicity surrounding her behavior at her former lover Rudolph Valentino's New York funeral and her rebound marriage to Georgian prince Serge Mdivani, although internationally her films continued to fare well.

As the legend goes, she performed miraculous healings and converted the Georgian queen, Nana, and eventually the pagan king Mirian III of Iberia, who, lost in darkness and blinded on a hunting trip, found his way only after he prayed to " Nino ’ s God ".

Even in a Soviet period of harsh restrictions against any religious activities, each year the Georgian highlanders, together with the group of elder priests organized and performed their traditional rituals.

He has trained with some of the very best jugglers in the world including Laos, Georgian and Moscow State Circuses, performed in America, Australia, Asia and Europe.

In 2011 Clune performed as the rambunctious Miss Ogle in the play The Belle's Stratagem, a revival of a script by Hannah Cowley from the Georgian period at the Southwark Playhouse.

There are many Georgian buildings in the town alongside the Norman parish church.

Particularly notable examples included Freeth's Coffee House, one of the most celebrated meeting places of Georgian England ; Ketley's Building Society, the world's first building society, founded at the Golden Cross in Snow Hill in 1775 ; the Birmingham Book Club, whose radical politics saw it nicknamed the " Jacobin Club ", and which alongside other debating societies such as the Birmingham Free Debating Society and the Amicable Debating Society played a prominent role in the growing expression of popular political consciousness within the town ; and the more conservative Birmingham Bean Club, a dining club uniting leading loyalist figures in the town with prominent landowners from the surrounding counties, which played a prominent role in the emergence of a distinct " Birmingham interest " in regional politics from 1774.

On the outskirts of Barrie, the through right-of-way continues as Highway 11 towards Orillia and North Bay, while Highway 400 exits and veers 90 degrees to the north-west towards Georgian Bay, travelling alongside the former Highway 93 to Craighurst.

* 1115: The Georgian army occupies Rustavi in the war to free Georgia from the Muslims.

A medieval Georgian inscription identifies the figure of the old man with long white beard and dressed in rich clerical habit as Shota from Rustavi.

Both a folk tradition and the 17th century royal poet Archil identify Rustaveli as a native of the southern Georgian region of Meskheti, where his home village Rustavi was located ( not to be confused with the modern-day city of Rustavi near Tbilisi ).

* " Town of Rustavi " ( a monograph ), Tbilisi, 1957 ( in Georgian )

The historian Leonti Mroveli, who described the lives of the first Georgian kings, mentions the town Rustavi among those castles, which protested the troops of Alexander the Great.

If we take into consideration this explanation, we must believe that Rustavi was the residence of the Georgian kings.

On 19 January 1948, a decree of the Supreme Soviet of Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic declared Rustavi a town of republican importance.

Georgian State Academic Ensemble “ Rustavi ”

Georgian Sate Academic Ensemble “ Rustavi ” was founded in 1968.

* Buran Tetradze ( 31 ) – Allegedly an ethnic Georgian and native of Rustavi, Georgia.

The crew of Rustavi 2 was arrested ; the Georgian Minister of Health said that the correspondent Nana Lezhava, who had been kept for five days in the Russian pre-trial detention centers, had been poisoned with dangerous psychotropic drugs ( like Politkovskaya, Lezhava had passed out after being given a cup of tea ).

The Rustavi Ensemble or the ' Georgian State Academic Ensemble ' is a Georgian folk music ensemble that was created in 1968 by Anzor Erkomaishvili, a singer and folklorist from a distinguished Georgian musical lineage that goes back seven generations.

Songs and dances for work and war, spectacular costumes, the unique Georgian style of polyphonic singing and rich voices characterize the Rustavi Choir.

The UNESCO Pacha Prize has been awarded in 2001 to the Rustavi State Academic Ensemble of Singing and Dancing for the safeguarding and promotion of Georgian polyphonic singing in the Republic of Georgia.

Vakhtang was officially included in the Georgian Orthodox calendar – and a church built in his honor in the city of Rustavi – early in the 1990s, but he had presumably been considered a saint long before that.

The news service of Rustavi 2 has bureaus and regional reporters in major Georgian cities ( Kutaisi, Batumi, Gori, Poti, Zugdidi ), as well as the permanent correspondents in Moscow and Washington D. C .. By some critiques, the independence of the station had been questioned, with some claiming it is close to the Georgian government.

Giorgi Sanaia, sometimes spelled as Giorgi Sanaya () ( 1975 — 2001 ) was a Georgian television journalist of the independent broadcasting company Rustavi 2 who was murdered under controversial circumstances in 2001.

A Georgian investigative TV documentary later found that camera crew from the government-friendly channel Rustavi 2 had been in position with their equipment before the shooting took place.

Last time they lost in the second qualifying round of the 2007 / 8 Champions League to Norway's Rosenborg after overcoming Georgian champions FC Olimpi Rustavi in the first qualifying round 3-0 on aggregate.

In 2010, the volume of bilateral trade with Turkey was about $ 200 million, with trade taking place without open borders, across Georgian territory.

Andrew R. Cobb designed several campus buildings including: Raynor Hall Residence, 1916 ; Horton House, designed by Cobb in the Georgian style, and built by James Reid of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia was opened in 1915 as Horton Academy.

In 1785, Russia and the eastern Georgian kingdom of Kartl-Kakheti ( which was devastated by Turkish and Persian invasions ) signed the Treaty of Georgievsk, according to which Kartl-Kakheti received protection from Russia.

Even though he was a Georgian, and he opposed Georgian nationalism, he talked like a Slavophile, which was an advantage.

Beria, an ethnic Georgian, was the Presidium member for internal security affairs, and he was a strong supporter for minority rights and even supported reuniting East and West Germany to establish a strong, and neutral Germany between the capitalist and socialist nations.

It was a major commercial success and provided for two phases of expansion during the Georgian and Victorian eras.

The first of the Georgian docks was the West India ( opened 1802 ), followed by the London ( 1805 ), the East India ( also 1805 ), the Surrey ( 1807 ), St Katharine ( 1828 ) and the West India South ( 1829 ).

* Repentance a. k. a. The Confession ( 1984 ), a Georgian film about a fictional dictator which was banned until 1987.

Debate on the possible installation of a constitutional monarchy in Georgia was revitalized following the 7 October 2007 sermon of Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II, the popular head of the Georgian Orthodox Church.

The patriarch said, during his Sunday service at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, that restoration of the Bragrationi royal family was a " desirable dream of the Georgian people ".

John Nash was one of the most prolific architects of the late Georgian era known as The Regency style, he was responsible for designing large areas of London.

Greek Revival was added to the design repertory the main exponents being William Wilkins and Robert Smirke, their work dominates late Georgian architecture is characterized by its proportion and balance ; simple mathematical ratios were used to determine the height of a window in relation to its width or the shape of a room as a double cube.

" Regular " was a term of approval, implying symmetry and adherence to classical rules: the lack of symmetry, where Georgian additions were added to earlier structures, was deeply felt as a flaw.

Regularity of housefronts along a street was a desirable feature of Georgian town planning.

Georgian Architecture was widely disseminated in the English colonies of the time.

Unlike the Baroque style that it replaced, which was generated almost solely in the context of palaces and churches, Georgian had wide currency in the upper and middle classes.

The establishment of Georgian architecture, and the Georgian styles of design more generally, were to a large degree aided by the fact that, unlike earlier styles which were primarily disseminated among craftsmen through the direct experience of the apprenticeship system, Georgian was also spread through the new medium of inexpensive suites of engravings.