On October 19, Esma Mania, a researcher at the Korneli Kekelidze Georgian National Center of Manuscripts, gave a public lecture “Perspectives for the Portrait of Ilia Chavchavadze (Observations from Personal Archive)” at the Ilia Chavchavadze Literary-Memorial Museum as part of the Ilia’s “Thursdays”.
The speaker presented twelve different angles of Ilia Chavchavadze’s portrait, emphasized various perspectives of Ilia such as writing materials and features of writing; specificity of artistic writings; unconscious and cognitive layers in personal archive; Ilia Chavchavadze as a reviewer and evaluator, and an object of others’ evaluation; as an author of intellectual creation; as a creator of new domestic environment; as an observer of political configurations of governing bodies of European countries; as an innovator and a farmer.
Depending on the significance, the perspectives of research of Ilia Chavchavadze’s heritage are quite diverse. The guest speaker has been studying Ilia’s personal archive for many years and she shared the most authentic biographical and creative heritage as a source – the results of observation of his personal archive with the present audience.
The purpose of Union of Tbilisi Museums is to restore the tradition of “Thursdays” in the Ilia Chavchavadze Literary-Memorial Museum of Tbilisi. The format of the “Thursdays” tradition includes public lectures by representatives involved in contemporary cultural and educational processes, presenting the importance of the achievements and epoch of Ilia Chavchavadze and his fellow public figures in the context of Georgian history.
