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"Mokvi Gospels The Mokvi Four Gospels () is a 13th-century illuminated manuscript of the Four Gospels in Georgian, copied in the nuskhuri script and richly adorned with miniatures at the Mokvi Cathedral in Abkhazia. The Mokvi Gospels contains 329 pages, each 30 x 23.5 cm in size, and a long cycle of 157 miniatures painted on gold. The manuscript is preserved at the Georgian National Center of Manuscripts in Tbilisi. The Mokvi Gospels, dated to 1300, was copied by the certain Ephraim at the behest of Daniel, Archbishop of Mokvi, and donated to the Cathedral of the Holy Virgin at Mokvi. Daniel himself is portrayed in one of the miniatures as praying before the Virgin Mary. Naumann and Belting assume that the author of the miniatures was trained in Constantinople around 1290 and brought the Byzantine style to Georgia. The manuscript was then transported to the Gelati Monastery near Kutaisi, where it was still kept in the 1880s. It was then brought to a museum in Tbilisi and evacuated to France after the Soviet invasion of Georgia as part of the Georgian museum treasuries in 1921. It was repatriated to then-Soviet Georgia in 1945 and found its abode at the National Center of Manuscripts. As of 2015, efforts were underway for improved conservation and repair of the manuscript. See also * Bichvinta Gospels References 13th-century illuminated manuscripts Georgian manuscripts 13th-century biblical manuscripts 13th century in the Kingdom of Georgia History of Abkhazia "
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"Ruins of the Lykhny palace The Shervashidze Palace is a ruined structure in the village of Lykhny in Abkhazia/Georgia. The palace was constructed from 16th to the 19th century for Princes Shervashidze, rulers of the Abkhazia. It was destroyed in the course of the revolt against the Russian Empire in 1866. The extant edifice is a remnant of a two-storey building built of limestone, sandstone, brick and other materials. History The Shervashidze palace, built in the 16th or 17th century and reconstructed in the 19th—now in ruins—lies at the outskirts of the Lykhnashta, a large field in Lykhny, where an insurrection against the Russian rule erupted in July 1866. The rebellion was quelled by General Dmitry Sviatopolk-Mirsky, governor of Kutais, and the Shervashidze palace was burned down in August 1866. Current condition Georgia has inscribed the Shervashidze Palace on its list of cultural heritage, but exercises no control over the territory. The current state of preservation of the monument is not known. References Palaces in Georgia (country) Buildings and structures in Abkhazia House of Shervashidze "