Chronicle of Georgia: Mustached Man with Open Books

Mustached Man with Open Books. Poet Akaki Tsereteli, Ilia’s contemporary, wrote “Suliko”, the song generations of Georgians have sung around the table. A portrait in bronze, close enough to read every line of the face and robe. For centuries the royal capital was Mtskheta, where the Aragvi meets the Mtkvari — today a UNESCO-listed town and the spiritual heart of the country.