On the 15th of November, Friday,
the first-year students of Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary
visited the National Center of Korneli Kekelidze Institute of
Manuscripts on the occasion of an exhibition dedicated to the
brother and Sister, Oliver and Marjory Wardrops; the exhibition
hall holds originals of the correspondence they had with the
well-known figures of Georgia of the 19th-20th centuries: Ilia
Chavchavadze, Olgha Guramishvili and others. The educational
project, titled “The Georgia of the Wardrops – History and
Contemporaneity” also offers the guests archive manuscripts,
displaying their activity in the translation of works of Georgian
literature, among them are the text of “The Knight in the Panther’s
Skin”, known as the Tsereteli edition and the Chelishi edition of
“The Life of Saint Nino”.
The students expressed their
interest in the material which illustrates the technics used in the
creation of manuscripts and the history of the foundation of this
centre.
