(1914, Kutaisi – 2000, Tbilisi)In 1936, he graduated from the Transcaucasian Industrial Institute with a specialization in architecture. From 1936 to 1998, he taught at various higher educational institutions in Tbilisi. Beginning in 1941, he worked at the G. Chubinashvili Institute of Georgian Art History, serving as its director in 1973–1988 and again in 1996–2000, …

(1885, St. Petersburg – 1973, Tbilisi)Founder of Georgian art history. From 1906 to 1916 he studied psychology and art history at the Universities of Leipzig, Halle, and Petrograd. In 1917–1922 he worked at the Caucasian Historical-Archaeological Institute; in 1929–1934 he was an employee of the Georgian State Museum; in 1934–1941 he headed the architecture department …