Hesburgh Libraries

Most of the poems are handwritten, some are typed, and most are dated. Authorship also is varied.

Some of the correspondence is signed as well by Elena Vladimirovna, Mardzhanishvili's wife.

Signature indicates that the postcard is from the entire Zakharovyi family.

Zinaida Aleksandrovna was the wife of Vissarion Chichinadze; her maiden name was Dekonskaia.

Georgii Nikolaevich Nikoladze (1888-1931) was RNN's younger brother.

Postcard conveys an Easter greeting.

The scientist and mathematician, Nikolai Ivanovich Muskhelishvili (1891-1976) was married to Vissarion's cousin, Tamara N. Nikoladze.

Tamara Alekseevna Chichinadze was Vissarion's sister.

Vissarion (Beso) Alekseevich Chichinadze was the son of Efrosinia Iakovlevna Nikoladze and Aleksei Chichinadze and thus also a cousin of RNN. He was the father of Aliko and Atiko. He was executed in the 1930s.

Iuliia Presniakova was the wife of historian Aleksandr E. Presniakov (1870-1929), a friend of Mikhail A. Polievktov in St. Petersburg.

David Gvaramadze was a chemist and a colleague of RNN at the Polytechnic Institute.

Postcards are in Georgian.

One of the postcards is sent from Kutaisi, and the other from Khashuri, which is also in Georgia.

The historian Mikhail Aleksandrovich Polievktov (1872-1942) married Rusudana Nikoladze in 1913.

Nikolai Mikhailovich Polievktov-Nikoladze (1915-1989) was RNN's son; the postcards are written in Georgian.

The notice was issued by the Gruzinskii Industrialnyi Institut imeni S. M. Kirova.

Most of the programs and playbills have to do with performances in which Aleksei (Aliko) Chichinadze was the choreographer.

Folder includes a ticket for the Sokol gathering in Prague and an invitation from the teaching section of the society for the defense of motherhood and children.

Invitations are in Georgian.

Folder includes invitations from the Akademia Nauk, the Teatralnoe Obshchestvo, etc.; invitations are in both Russian and Georgia.

Invitations are in both Russian and Georgian and are issued by such organizations as the Geological/Geographical section of Akademia Nauk, the Polytechnical Institute, and others.

Most of the invitations are in Georgian.