Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction --
Author's note 8 --
Acknowledgments 9 --
Introduction 10 –
Timeline 18 --
Old Town 24 –
An Old Fashioned Future: Preserving Old Tbilisi 41 --
The Silk Road Palaces of Tiflis 55 --
Sacred Architecture 61 --
Sololaki 78 --
The Paris of the Caucasus: Literary Tiflis Mzia Chikhradze 89 --
Armenian Culture in Tiflis 95 --
Downtown 106 Replacements: Forgotten Soviet Architecture David Bostanashvili 123 --
The Forgotten Decade: Legacies of the 1990s 139 --
Building the Orient in Imperial Tiflis 151 --
Constructing Communism: The Architectural Avant-Garde in Tiflis 165 --
Up in the Air: Traces of Tbilisi's Cable Cars David Gogishvili / Suzanne Harris-Brandts 173 --
Dry Bridge Market 179 --
Vera 184 --
Statues and Monuments 195 --
Art for Architecture: Soviet Mosaics Nini Palavandishvili 211 --
Vake-Bagebi 218 --
The Architecture of Stalinism 227 --
Post-Planning: Public Space in the Unplanned City Anna Kintsurashvili and Angela Wheeler 241 --
Chugureti 252 --
Art Nouveau: New Art' for Old Tbilisi Nestan Tatarashvili 261 --
Recovering German Heritage in Tbilisi Oliver Reisner and Nestan Tatarashvili 277 --
Tbilisi in Film Olga Zhgenti 299 --
Saburtalo 306 --
Rational National Modernism: Soviet Georgian Architecture After Stalin 325 --
Housing the Masses: Soviet Housing in Tbilisi Levan Asabashvili and Rusudan Mirzikashvili 347 --
Avlabari-Isani 358 --
Bridges 371 --
Underground Art: the Tbilisi Metro System Giorgi Babunashvili and Angela Wheeler 383 --
Ortachala 390 --
Didube-Nadzaladevi 400 --
Soviet Brutalism 411 --
Dighomi 420 --
Gldani 436 –

Index of Sites:
112 Emergency Call Centre 099 C --
9 April Gardens 109 --
Abanotubani --
Academic City Complex --
Academy of Physical Training and Sports --
Aeroflot Ticket Office --
Agricultural University --
Alexander Jagetiani Mansion --
Amir Kazim Mirza Qajar House --
Ampelographic Laboratory --
Anchiskhati Basilica --
Andropov's Ears --
Apartment House, Vake --
Apartment House, Vera --
Apollo Theatre --
Armenian Drama Theatre of Tbilisi --
Arsenal Oasis --
Art Museum of Georgia --
Assumption of the Virgin Catholic Church --
Ateshgah Zoroastrian Temple --
Aurora Apartments --
Avlabari --
Bank of Georgia Headquarters --
Baratashvili Ascent Houses --
Baratashvili Bridge --
Baratashvili Wall --
Betlemi --
Book Palace --
Boris Dzneladze Komsomol Complex --
Botanical Gardens --
Bozardzhyants Mansion --
Bread Factory --
Caucasian Officers Economical Society --
Central Bus Station --
Central Supermarket at Deserters' Bazaar --
Champagne Factory --
Chavchanidze Mansion --
Chess Palace and Alpine Club --
Children's World --
Chapel of the Transfiguration --
Chugureti --
Church of Mikhail of Tver --
Church of Saint Mary at Didube Pantheon --
Church of Saint Nicholas --
Church of Saint Nino --
Church of Saint David --
Church of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste --
Circus --
Classical Gymnasium --
Computing Centre and Mshenbanki --
Conservatoire --
Court Church --
Deda Ena Park –
Dentistry Clinic --
Didube --
Didube Pantheon --
Dighomi --
Dinamo Stadium --
Dinamo Training Centre --
District Soviet of People's Deputies --
Bridge Building --
Dolidze Street Communal Housing --
Dry Bridge --
Dzotsenidze Street Apartments --
Ekaterina Rotinova House --
Ekvtime Takiashvili House Museum --
Eliava Garage --
Eliava Institute of Bacteriophage, Microbiology, and Virology --
Eliava Market --
Elmavalmshenebeli Tbilisi Locomotive Factory --
Erekle II Square --
Etchmiadzin --
Ethimia Zubalashviti --
European Union Headquarters--
Expo Georgia --
Figure Skating Centre --
Freedom Square --
Funicular Lower Station --
Funicular Upper Station --
Gabashvili House --
Gaikazova Mansion --
Galaktioni Bridge --
Galaktioni Bridge Bus Stop --
Georgian State Film Studios --
Georgian Technical University Campus --
Gldani --
Goglio Bathhouse --
Great Synagogue --
Griboyedov Square Apartments --
Gudiashvili Square --
Heroes' Square --
Heroes' Square Apartments --
Hippodrome --
Hotel Adjara --
Hotel Iveria --
Hotel Kolkheti --
HoteL London --
Hotel Majestic --
Hotel Sakartvelo --
House of Political Education --
Hovhannes Tumanyan House Museum --
HuaLing Tbilisi Sea New City --
Industrial College --
Institute of Construction Mechanics and Seismic Resistance --
Institute of Energetics --
Institute of Horticulture, Viticulture, and Winemaking --
Institute of Marxism and Leninism --
Institute of Mathematics --
Institute of Noblewomen --
Institute of Physics --
Institute of Physiology and Morphology --
Isani --
Isani Metro Station --
Ivanishvili Mansion --
Juma Mosque --
Jvaris Mama --
Kakhidze Centre for Music and Culture --
Kala --
Kalantarov Mansion --
Kartvelishvili Mansion --
Karvasla --
Karvasla Tbilisi History Museum --
Kashveti Church --
KGB Headquarters --
Khojavank Cemetery --
Khorava Actors House --
Kldisubani Church of Saint George --
Kolkhoz Square Market --
Krtsanisi Garage --
Krtsanisi Geghardavank --
Kukia Cemetery --
Kukia Cemetery Church of Saint Nino --
Laguna Vera --
Lisi Lake --
Lower Betlemi Church --
Madatova Mansion --
Madatovsky Island --
Magnetic-Meteorological Observatory --
Maidan --
Mantashev Ranks --
Mantashev Stables --
Manuscript Centre --
Maria Stern House --
Marjanishvili Square Apartments --
Marjanishvili Theatre --
McDonald's --
Melik Azariants Building --
Metekhi Bridge --
Metekhi Church --
Milov Brothers Mansion --
Ministry of Agriculture and Chai-Gruziia Offices --
Ministry of Communications --
Ministry of Forestry Laboratory and Institute of Mining Mechanics --
Ministry of Transportation --
Mtatsminda --
Mtatsminda Cable Car Station --
Mtatsminda Pantheon --
Mtatsminda Park --
Mughni Surb Gevorg --
Mukhatgverdi Cemetery --
Museum of Azerbaijani Culture --
Museum of Georgian Literature --
Museum of Jewish History --
Mushtaidi Park --
Mutual Credit Society --
Mziuri Park --
Nadzaladevi --
NakhaLovka --
NarikaLa Fortress --
National Archive Building --
National Bank of Georgia Centre --
National Gallery --
National Parliamentary Library of Georgia --
National Science Academy --
National Science Library --
National Youth and Children's Palace --
Nersisian School --
Norasheni --
Nutsubidze Street Apartments --
OCOAVIAXIM --
Officers Club and Tiflis Artists' Group --
Old Sameba Trinity Church --
Olympic Training Facility --
Orbeliani Baths --
Orbeliani Garden --
Ortachala --
Ortachala Hydroelectric Station --
Ortachala Prosecutor's Office --
Palace of Poetry --
Palace of Rituals --
Palace of Track and Field Athletics --
Parliament --
Paul Stern House --
Peace Bridge --
Pedagogical University --
Persian Consul's Residence --
Philharmonic --
Pirimze House of Consumer Repairs --
Plekhanovi --
Presidential Palace --
Prosecutor's Office --
Public Service Hall --
Pushkin Square --
Railway Workers' Culture House --
Restaurant Berikoni --
Restaurant Kalakuri --
Restaurant Laghidze's Waters --
Restaurant Marabda --
Revolutionary Underground Press Museum --
Rike Concert Hall --
Rose Revolution Square --
Royal District Theatre --
Rustaveli Avenue Apartments --
Rustaveli Cinema --
Rustaveli Georgian Academic Theatre --
Rustaveli Square --
Saakashvili Presidential Library --
Saarbrucken Bridge --
Saburtalo --
Sachino --
Saint Barbara Church of Navtlughi --
Saint Marine Church --
Saint Nicholas Church --
Saint Nino Women's School Chapel --
Saint Theodosius of Chernigov Church/Cafe Gallery --
Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church --
Sameba Trinity Cathedral --
Seylanov Brothers Tobacco Factory --
Shamkoretsots Astvatsatsin (Karmir Avetaran) --
Shardeni Street --
Shopping Centre Tbilisi --
Simon Janashia Georgian National Museum --
Sioni Cathedral --
Sioni Theological Academy --
Sololaki --
Soviet Central Committee and Chancellery Buildings --
Sports Palace --
Saint Alexander Nevsky Russian Orthodox Church --
Saint John the Theologian Russian Orthodox Church and Blue Monastery --
State Design Institute --
State Silk Museum --
State University of Language and Culture --
Station Square Complex --
Supreme Court Building --
Surb Gevorg Armenian church --
Surb Nishan Armenian church --
Tabor Monastery of the Transfiguration --
Tamar Mepe Bridge --
Tandoyants Surb Astvatsatsin --
Tbilisi Airport --
Tbilisi Art Palace --
Tbilisi Balneological Resort --
Tbilisi City Hall --
Tbilisi Dendrological Park --
Tbilisi Evangelical Lutheran Church --
Tbilisi Metro Headquarters --
Tbilisi Museum of Archaeology --
Tbilisi Open Air Museum of Ethnography --
Tbilisi Opera House --
Tbilisi Sea --
Tbilisi State Academy of Arts --
Tbilisi State University Campus --
Tbilisi State University Extension Campus --
Tbilisi Velodrome --
Tea House --
Technical Library --
Technical University Faculty Housing --
Thermal Barometric Camera --
Trade Union Cultural Centre --
Tramworkers' Houses --
Tse Kayshiri --
Turtle Lake –
United National Movement Party Headquarters --
Upper Betlemi Church --
Vake --
Vake Cemetery --
Vake Park --
Vake Park Apartments --
Vake Theological Seminary --
Vakhushti Bagrationi Bridge --
Vank Cathedral Bell Tower --
Vera --
Vera Cemetery --
Vera Park --
Wine Factory No. 1 --
Women's Gymnasium --
Writers Union House --
Yerevantsots Saint Minas --
Zahesi Hydroelectric Station --
Zaksovnarkom --
Zarya Vostoka Editorial Office --

This guide presents over 120 buildings and projects in the Georgian capital. It serves not only as a helpful guide for tourists but also as a documentation of the city's social history. The selection of buildings covers a broad spectrum of sights that are not only aesthetically interesting but also shed light on the city's historical developments. The book gives a comprehensive tour of the stylistic contrasts that enrich the city, filled with all manner of structures, from wooden homes to striking works of con-temporary architecture.