The Kingdom of Georgia: Notes of travel in a land of women, wine, and song

by John Oliver Wardrop

CONTENTS.

• PAGE
• [Batum to Tiflis] 1
• [Tiflis] 8
• [The Georgian Military Road between Tiflis and Vladikavkaz] 34
• [The Kakhetian Road—Tiflis to Signakh] 69
• [Signakh] 78
• [A Trip across the Alazana] 83
• [Signakh to Telav, and thence to Tiflis] 100
• [The History of Georgia] 113
• [The Language and Literature of Georgia] 136
• [The Political Condition of the Kingdom of Georgia] 155

APPENDIX.

• [Bibliography] 171
• [Statistics] 197
• [Specimens of Georgian Vocal Music] 201

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

A few illustrations and the map at the end of the volume are not available in the scan-set used to prepare this ebook. Several other illustrations still contain the perforated library markings.

• [Tiflis] Frontispiece
• [Maps of Transcaucasian Railway and Military Road] To face page 1
• [A Georgian Wrestler] 30
• Saint Nina 40
• [Ananur] 46
• [Dariel Fort and Ruins of Tamara’s Castle] 62
• [Dariel] 64
• [Vladikavkaz] 66
• [An Arba] 73
• [A Street in Signakh] 80
• [Georgian National Costume] 84
• [The City Wall, Telav] 108
• Queen Tamara 114
• [Irakli II] 124
• [Rustaveli] 139
• [Prince Ilia Chavchavadze] 150
• [Prince Ivané Machabeli] 153
• [Bishop Gabriel of Kutaïs] 154
• Map of Georgia At the end.