Akaki Tsereteli (1840-1915) was a great Georgian poet, writer, publicist, and public figure, one of the leaders of the Georgian National Liberation Movement. He was a great contributor to the establishment of the “Society for the Promotion of Literacy among Georgians”, the creation of the Georgian Drama Society, and the development of Georgian journalism. He was one of the founders of the new Georgian literature and a reformer of the modern Georgian literary language. Akaki Tsereteli House Museum was founded in 1940. It is located in the patrimonial palace of the Tsereteli family in the village of Skhvitori. The museum’s funds preserve the personal belongings of the poet and his ancestors (accessories, clothes), French, Italian, and German furniture of the first half of the XIX century, pottery, library (editions of different periods in Georgian, Russian, French), manuscripts of the poet and other public figures.
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