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Pro Georgia Journal of Kartvelological Studies PRO GEORGIA JOURNAL OF KARTVELOLOGICAL STUDIES No 29 — 2019 (Published since 1991) CENTRE FOR EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES FACULTY OF ORIENTAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW WARSAW 2019 2 E DITOR- IN-CHIEF David KOLBAIA S ECRETARY Sophia J V A N I A EDITORIAL C OMMITTEE Jan M A L I C K I, Wojciech M A T E R S K I, Henryk P A P R O C K I I NTERNATIONAL A DVISORY B OARD Zaza A L E K S I D Z E, Professor, Korneli Kekelidze Georgian National Center of Manuscripts, Tbilisi Andrzej F U R I E R, Professor, University of Szczecin Jost GIPPERT, Professor, Goethe University of Frankfurt Andria G V A Z A V A, Metropolitan of Gori and Ateni Gocha J A P A R I D Z E, Professor, Tbilisi State University Radosław KARASIEWICZ-SZCZYPIORSKI, Professor University of Warsaw Vakhtang L I C H E L I, Professor, Tbilisi State University Stanis³aw L I S Z E W S K I, Professor Emeritus, University of Łódź Guram L O R T K I P A N I D Z E (†), Professor Emeritus, Tbilisi State University Hirotake M A E D A, Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan Georges M A M O U L I A, docteur en histoire de l’Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris Lech M R Ó Z, Professor, University of Warsaw Bernard O U T T I E R, Professor Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris Andrzej P I S O W I C Z, Professor, Jagiellonian University, Cracow Annegret P L O N T K E - L U E N I N G, Professor, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena Manana T A N D A S H V I L I, Professor, Goethe University of Frankfurt Sophia V A S H A L O M I D Z E, Professor, Martin-Luther-Univerity, Halle-Wittenberg 4 Cover: St. Mamai, Gelati Tondo (silver, gilt silver), 11th century © by Pro Georgia. Journal of Kartvelological Studies, Warsaw 2019 © by Centre for East European Studies, Warsaw 2019 EDITORIAL ADDRESS Centre for East European Studies University of Warsaw Pa³ac Potockich, Krakowskie Przedmieœcie 26/28 PL 00-927 Warsaw tel. 48 22 55 22 555, fax 48 22 55 22 222 e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Project (Pro Georgia. Journal of Kartvelological Studies, no. 29/2019) – financed under contract no. 622/P-DUN/2019 from funds of the Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland, allocated to science dissemination activities. [Zadanie (Pro Georgia. Journal of Kartvelological Studies, no. 29/2019) finansowane w ramach umowy 622/P-DUN/2019 ze środków Ministra Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego przeznaczonych na działalność upowszechniającą naukę.] PRINTING: Duo Studio ISSN 1230-1604 Edition of 500 Copies The printed version is the basic version of the journal CONTENTS 5 I. ARTICLES AND STUDIES VAKHTANG LICHELI, GIORGI GAGOSHIDZE, MERAB KASADZE, Georgian Churches in Larnaka District (Alaminos/Sophtades area, Cyprus) ............................................... 9 Jacek Hamburg, monika badura, rafał bieńkowski, agnieszka kaliszewska, grzegorz skrzyński, with contribution of ROLAND ISAKADZE, Preliminary Results of Archaeological and Archaeobotanical Investigation of the Defensive Moat Found in Kutaisi (Western Georgia) ............................................................ 43 radosław karasiewicz-szczypiorski, sHota mamuladze, Early Fortifica- tions at the Apsaros Fort (Gonio, Georgia). New Discoveries ........ 63 MARIKA MSHVILDADZE, Glyptic Monuments (Artefacts) with Chris- tian Symbolism from Georgian Black Sea Coast (I-IV cc.) .......... 77 maia pataridze, Aristarchus, the Ruler of Colchis (Numismatic Research) ................................................................................................. 83 GIORGI SOSIASHVILI, The Petritsoni Monastery Lands in Liakhvi Gorge ...................................................................................................... 97 MAIA NACHKEBIA, Theme of the Original Sin in Georgian Baroque Literature ................................................................................................ 109 BESIK KHURTSILAVA, On the History of Creating the First Basilica in the Place of the Cross Monastery in Jerusalem .......................... 119 II. MATERIALS, DOCUMENTS, MEMOIRES woJciecH materski, Uwięzienie szefa Misji Specjalnej RP do republik Kaukazu Południowego Tytusa Filipowicza (w świetle szczątkowej dokumentacji) ................................................................ 137 paweł olszewski, W przededniu niepodległości republik Połud- niowokaukaskich. Relacje Gruzińsko-Ormiańsko-Azerbejdżań- skie od marca 1917 r. do maja 1918 r. ............................................ 159 DIANA ZADURA, Witalis Ugrechelidze-Ugorski (1902-1983). Oficer, jeździec i tłumacz.................................................. ................................. 193 6 CONTENTS witalis ugrecHelidze-ugorski, Wspomnienia kresowego ułana. Opracowała Diana Zadura …………….........……………………….. 217 bartłomieJ krzysztan, Polityzacja pamięci i przestrzeni w krajo- brazie kulturowym. Mapowanie tożsamości tranzycyjnej na przy- kładzie Tbilisi ....................................................................................... 245 III. REVIEWS AND COMMENTAIRES Janusz kotański, Letter to the guests and participants of the Con- ference in Memory of St. Grigol Peradze (1899-1942) ................... 267 TAMAR GRDZELIDZE, Martyrdom in the Twentieth Century Orthodox Church of Georgia (Introduction to the papers presented at the conference dedicated to St. Grigol Peradze ...................................... 271 DAVID KOLBAIA, Grigol Peradze – Researcher of Old Georgian Ecclesiastical Writings ........................................................................ 274 Henryk paprocki, St. Grigol Peradze in Poland ................................ 278 IRAKLI JINJOLAVA, A Portrait of Grigol Peradze Against the Back- ground of the Ecumenical Vocation in the Orthodox Church ..... 287 LEONIDE EBRALIDZE, Some Aspects of Liturgical and Mystical Sen- sibility of St. Grigol Peradze ............................................................... 293 IV. CHRONICLE IN MEMORIAM, Guram Lortkipanidze (1938-2019) ............................. 299 Pro Georgia, 2019, t. 29, s. 97-108 97 THE PETRITSONI MONASTERY LANDS IN LIAKHVI GORGE by Giorgi Sosiashvili Gori State Teaching University, Georgia The Petritsoni Georgian Monastery,* which operated in Bulgaria, had its own land in the Middle Ages in Didi (Big) Liakhvi Gorge, particularly, in the village Ergneti, which is located near Tskhinvali. It is known that the mentioned monastery was founded in 1083 by Grigol Bakurianisdze, a noble from Tao, who served the Byzantine Empire. He built three churches in Petritsoni. The biggest one among them was the church of St. Mary, the rest two were relatively smaller in size and were named after John the Baptist and St. Giorgi.1 Grigol Bakurianisdze even compiled a Typikon for the Petritsoni Monastery. According to the monastery regulations, the festive day of the Georgian Monas tery was the Assumption of St. Mary. We read in Typikon: “and for the Assumption of St. Mary, which is the feast day in our sacred church and the beheading of John the Baptist, and for the church of St. Giorgi twelve Drahkan to be given each”.2 The founder, Grigol Bakurianisdze, who had a huge influence at the Imperial Court, contributed a signifi cant fortune to Petritsoni Monastery.3 With insufficient documents on hand, it is difficult to say what kind of property was owned in Georgia by the Georgian Ecclesiastical Centre, located in Bulgaria. T. Meskhi has recently published very notable information, from which we find 70 out * Many Georgian Monasteries located abroad had their lands in Liakhvi Gorge. Among them is the Monastery of the Cross in Jerusalem, and also St. Catherine`s Monastery of the Mount Sinai. G. S o- s i a s h v i l i, The lands of Monastery of the Cross in Jerusalem, and also St. Catherine`s Monastery of the Mount Sinai in Liakhvi Gorge, Gori State Teaching University History and Archeology Center, pro ceedings №9, 2016, p. 181. The Greek Monastery of Vatopedi on Mount Athos also had its church and lands in Patara (Small) Liakhvi Gorge. Idem. The church of Greek Monastery of Vatopedi on Mount Athos and lands in Patara (Small) Liakhvi Gorge, Herald of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences, History, Archeology, Ethnology and History of Arts series, №2, 2017, p.54. 1 A. S h a n i d z e, Georgian Monastery in Bulgaria and its Typikon, Vol. IX, Tbilisi 1986, p. 17. 2 Ibid, p. 123. 3 L. M e n a b d e, Centers of Old Georgian Literature, p. 263. 98 GIORGI SOSIASHVILI that in the beginning of the XIV century the Petritsoni Monastery had its own lands in our country as well, particularly in the village Ergneti, located in Didi (Big) Liakhvi Gorge. Ergneti is mentioned in Georgian historical sources many times, though its connection with Petritsoni is seen neither in documents nor in narrative monuments. One of the ancient charters, which relates to Ergneti dates back to 1451. It is revealed from the document that Ramin Gabelisdze-Amiredjibi con- tributed to Svetitskhoveli several peasant families; among them was Jokhasdze,who lived in Ergneti, with two vineyards: “and we, Gabelis- dze Amiredjibi Ramin, and Amilakhvari of your church, and my brother Saham donated to the priest, Catholicos and Patriarch of Kartli, David, one peasant Lalasdze with his land, one peasant from Ergneti – Jokhas- dze with two vineyards, another vineyard is also yours and the field and the land”.4 According to the Books of the II half of the XVIII century the Machabeli and the Kherkheulidze had peasants in Ergneti.5 In the 1789 Book of Catholicos Royal and Nobleman peasants, one
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