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Georgia - A Cultural Journey Through the Wardrop Collection (Hardcover)
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Georgia - A Cultural Journey Through the Wardrop Collection (Hardcover)
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When Marjory Wardrop joined her diplomat brother, Oliver, in
Georgia in 1894, they found themselves witnessing the birth pangs
of a modern nation. Recognising the significance of these
transformative years, they actively participated in the work of
Ilia Chavchavadze and other leaders of the independence movement,
culminating in Georgia's declaration of independence in 1918.
Becoming increasingly fascinated by Georgian history and culture,
the Wardrops gathered a significant collection of manuscripts
dating from the eleventh to the twentieth century, including a
seventeenth-century manuscript of Georgia's national epic poem,
'The Man in the Panther's Skin', which Marjory famously translated.
A remarkable number of items in the collection, now housed at the
Bodleian Library, illuminate an important aspect of medieval and
modern Georgia. Through these items - manuscripts, royal charters,
correspondence, notebooks and a draft of the 1918 declaration of
Independence - Nikoloz Aleksidze narrates a history of Georgian
literature and culture, from the importance of epic and folk tales,
to the Georgian Church's battle against persecution, to the
political activism of women in Georgia at the end of the nineteenth
century. Richly illustrated with rare and previously unpublished
images from the collection, this book not only offers a unique
insight into Georgian culture and political history and but also
tells the remarkable story of an eccentric English diplomat and his
talented sister, whose monument now stands outside the parliament
building in Tbilisi
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