Tbilisi. Revolutionary.

Tbilisi. Revolutionary.

Hi everyone! Today’s post is about a very specific museum. I would recommend it if you have already visited the museum of modern art and seen works by Niko Pirosmani and other talented Georgian painters, or if you have been to the Stalin Museum in Gori and are interested in 20th-century history.

So, after visiting the Stalin Museum in Gori in summer, we wanted to see that famous underground printing house where Stalin and other revolutionaries printed propaganda leaflets on a German press.

We did not get into the museum on our first attempt: it was closed, and a confused group of foreigners was waiting nearby too. On the second attempt, we got in. Right from the entrance, a friendly elderly man took us through what he called an unforgettable immersion into the Stalin-Lenin period. Later we learned he was a former security-service employee.

The excursion was intense: we saw the famous well through which revolutionaries entered the second building to print leaflets, both buildings themselves, the German printing press, and portraits of international and Russo-Georgian leaders and participants of the revolutionary movement.

An hour flew by under this passionate narration of early-to-mid-20th-century revolutionary history. Everyone decides for themselves how to relate to that period, but history cannot be erased: “the revolution the Bolsheviks spoke about for so long did happen.”

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