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unusual facts about Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Tiflis



1907 Tiflis bank robbery

After this incident, Muktarov was suspended from the Okhrana, and Stalin was ordered to leave Tiflis and go to Baku to await a decision in the case.

Alexander Chavchavadze

His manuscripts were widely circulated with his lyrics of love or protest, written in the spirit of the 18th-century Georgian poet Besiki or of the French French Enlightenment philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, sung in Tiflis and elsewhere in Georgia.

Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Belgrade

It is located in the Dorćol in the municipality of Stari Grad. Like all Alexander Nevsky Cathedral and churches it is named after the Russian national saint Aleksandr Yaroslavich Nevskiy.

Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Tiflis

Construction of the cathedral was launched six years later, April 16, 1871, in the upper part of Alexander’s Garden in Gunibsky Square (later known as Soborny Square, now part of Rustaveli Avenue).

Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Warsaw

Field Cathedral of the Polish Army, another cathedral in Warsaw that used to be an Orthodox church

Ambrosius of Georgia

He graduated from the Tiflis Theological Seminary in 1885 and was ordained to the priesthood in Abkhazia where he served as a priest in Sukhumi, New Athos, and Lykhny, and also delivered courses in the Georgian language.

Aurora Mardiganian

Witnessing the deaths of her family members and being forced to march over 1,400 miles, during which she was kidnapped and sold into the slave markets of Anatolia, Mardiganian escaped to Tiflis (modern Tbilisi, Georgia), then to St. Petersburg, from where she traveled to Oslo and finally, with the help of Near East Relief, to New York.

Blood and Oil in the Orient

It concludes with father and son fleeing the Bolshevik takeover of Baku in 1920 via Tiflis and Batumi, Georgia, across the Black Sea to Istanbul.

Boris Uvarov

From 1915 he worked in Tiflis, which after the Russian revolution of 1917 had become the capital of the short-lived Democratic Republic of Georgia.

Friedrich von Bodenstedt

This led to his appointment in 1844 as the head of a public school at Tiflis, Governorate of Tiflis (present-day Georgia).

Gazikumukh Khanate

Surkhay-khan II gave many battles of which the largest were at Tiflis, Derbent, Khosrekh, Chirakh, Kurakh, Kartukh, Alazani, Quba, Akhaltsikhe, Akhalkalaki, Kartli, Kakheti, fortress Surkhayli in Cherkessia, Ganja, Yerevan, Kars, Ardagan and Erzurum.

Gregory M. Garibian

was born in 1924 in Tiflis (now - Tbilisi, Georgia) in a family of a Medical Doctor and a homemaker.

Luigi Premazzi

In Tiflis (Tbilisi, he painted a watercolor of the Via dei Calzolari Asiatici; Houses and Tartar Bazaar : Angolo di Case sul gran mercato; Angolo di case al ponte Aolabar, Via Sienskaja, The Magnificent Aolobar Bridge over the Kur River, The Right Bank of the Kur River, and the Piazza del gran Mercato Maydan.

Maxim Rudometkin

This request was granted on December 25, 1858 and in March of 1859, he was then sentenced to walk in shackles from Tbilisi (Tiflis) (where he was later awaiting sentencing) to Solovki until he later reached the Solovetsky Monastery the following year on April 30, 1860.

Meriton Grand Hotel Tallinn

Meriton Grand Hotel Tallinn is a four-star hotel in Tallinn, Estonia, to the west of Alexander Nevsky Cathedral.

Michael Papadjanian

Michael Papadjanian, or Mikayel (Yerevan 1868 – Tiflis 1929) was a member of Armenian national liberation movement who studied law at Rostov, Odessa and St Petersburg, and had a practice as a barrister at Baku.

Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel

In the season 1894–95 she sang in Tiflis, in 1895–96 in the St Petersburg Private opera, and in 1896–97 in Kharkov.

National Botanical Garden of Georgia

Pillaged in the Persian invasion of 1795, the garden was revived in the early 19th century and officially established as the Tiflis Botanical Garden in 1845.

National Gallery for Foreign Art

The NGFA is situated in the very centre of Sofia, at St. Alexander Nevsky Square, behind the building of the National Assembly and the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral.

Nikola Marinov

Marinov has also done a great number of frescoes in churches in Plovdiv, Lovech, Biala Cherkva, Pernik and Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia.

Princess Helene Dolgoruki

Sometime around 1843-1847 General Fadeyev was appointed Imperial Councillor to the Viceroy of the Caucasus (perhaps First Viceroy Count (later Prince) Mikhail Vorontsov although Blavatsky says "Woronzoff"), and the family moved from Saratov to an even more imposing castle at Tiflis.

Rafael Israelyan

Between 1926-1928, he studied at the architectural faculty of the Academy of Arts in Tiflis, and then at the architectural faculty of the Institute of Communal Construction of Leningrad named after Ilya Repin which he had graduated excellently in 1934, with the title of artist-architect.

Ravished Armenia

She later moved to Tbilisi (Tiflis) in the Caucusus and through the mediation of General Andranik Ozanian and orders of the Russian military leadership in the Caucasus was sent to the United States for recovery and to bear witness to the sufferings of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.

Simon Zavarian

Growing up, he attended college in Moscow, later settling in Tiflis, where he met Kristapor Mikaelian and Stepan Zorian.

Václav Talich

He first conducted in Tiflis in 1906, and his first conducting post was in Ljubljana with the Slovenian Philharmonic.

Yordan Milanov

Milanov was a member and later a chairman of the committee on the construction of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia.

Yuri Barseghov

Yuri Barseghov (Юрий Барсегов, Յուրի Բարսեղով, March 7, 1925, Tiflis - August 6, 2008, Moscow) was an internetional law expert, J.D., professor, member of the United Nations' International Law Commission, the special assistant of the UN Deputy Secretary-General at the UN Secretariat (since 1971), director of the Armenian Institute of International Law and Political Science and a Foreign Member of the Armenian Academy of Sciences.


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