The Project seeks to study various activities of different ethnic and religious groups living in Tbilisi in the 19th c. -beginning of the 20th c. Several aspects of their interactions will also be examined.
The aim of the project is to collect and explore materials about different activities (economic, cultural, political, educational, etc.) of each ethnic and religious group and to fit these materials into a single framework. Some activities of separate groups are partly studied but there is no common and comparative study of the Tbilisi population of this period and such an approach undoubtedly represents the research novelty of the Project. The Project seeks to collect and explore various primary sources (works of travellers, archival materials, etc.) which are not been studied yet. The execution of this kind of research work will be useful both for professional researchers and for a wide audience interested in these issues. Of course, also relevant information from already published works and various documents will be studied. The complex study of different ethnic and confessional groups of the Tbilisi population, executed in such a way, based on current realities, is of great relevance. The interdisciplinary character of the research is conditioned by the study of the different activities of these groups and various aspects of their interactions. Such kind of large-scale research will be carried out in Georgia for the first time.