From Russia with Love

From Russia with Love

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The article investigates the perception of the cultural and artistic production of the Southern Caucasus, after the annexation of Georgia in 1801, southwestern aztec rug by three highly educated intellectuals of the time: the Metropolitan Evgeniy Bolkhovitinov, the historian Platon Ioseliani and the artist and architect Grigory Gagarin.Their writings reveal a latent concept of historical pre-eminence of the Caucasian region, and Georgia in particular, as a cultural and sacred outpost of two countries, the Byzantine Empire and the Empire of lock shock and barrel art the Russian Monarchs of the 19th century.