Sun Medallion with Figures. Begun in the last years of the Soviet era, the memorial was raised slowly over many years — some details are still unfinished, which only adds to its aura. A close-up 360° view of the bronze reliefs, taken high on a pillar at golden hour. Ilia Chavchavadze, the 19th-century writer later canonised as a saint, gave the nation its watchwords: “Fatherland, Language, Faith”.
