Lithuanian university to name auditorium after Ilia Chavchavadze
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An auditorium at a Lithuanian university will be named after Georgia’s highly-esteemed public figure, writer, poet and 19th Century journalist Ilia Chavchavadze.
The decision was announced as the Georgian Language Day was celebrated at the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences in Vilnius today.
The university administration said Ilia Chavchavadze Auditorium will open soon.
The exhibitions were organised by the Georgian Embassy in Lithuania. Photo: MFA of Georgia
The Georgian Language Day is a traditional event at the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences. This year’s celebration saw three different exhibitions about Georgia – one about Georgian alphabet and its development, and the other two about Georgian literature and Georgia-Lithuania relations.
Georgian Language Day celebration at the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences. Photo: MFA of Georgia
Georgian Ambassador to Lithuania Khatuna Salukvadze spoke at the event attended by Lithuanian and Georgian professors and students.
Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili met with the Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite during his first visa-free visit to Vilnius.
Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili is paying his first visa-free visit to Lithuania with Georgian citizens with Abkhazian and Ossetian origin today.
A large street banner has been installed near the Vilnius Airport to warmly greet first guests from Georgia who travel to Lithuania visa-free. The bilingual banner says in English and Georgian: "Closer than ever.”
People living in the Vilnius will celebrate the opening of Tbilisi Square – an area named in honour of Georgia’s capital.
Public talks, festival events and other activities are held in Georgia's capital and countryside today to mark the 180th anniversary of the birth of the revered public figure and a leader of the 19th century Georgian national movement Ilia Chavchavadze.
An authentic museum space in a historical residence of Ilia Chavchavadze - Georgian publicist, author and a major figure of the country's 19th century national movement - has reopened in Tbilisi to mark a successful conclusion of a four-year rehabilitation work and reintroduce another museum venue to the capital.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Monday paid tribute to Ilia Chavchavadze - Georgian publicist, author and a major figure of the country's 19th century national movement - on the 115th anniversary of his assasination, by saying that the country would “never forget the bright memory” of the “father of the nation”.
Georgian prime minister Irakli Garibashvili on Tuesday paid homage to Ilia Chavchavadze - a Georgian publicist, author and a major figure of the country's 19th century national movement - on the 185th anniversary of his birthday, by saying the public figure had dedicated his life to an “awakening of the national self-consciousness” and development of “statesman thinking”.