Amirov Brothers House on Lado Gudiashvili square. Photographer unknown.
House of Amirov Brothers
Jun 5, 2023
Built1870
OwnersSergei Amirov, Elizaveta Edjubova, Yegor Amirov, Isai Amirov

This house, like many others on the square, was built where older buildings once stood in the Middle Ages. Unfortunately, we don't know who owned those buildings. But we have records from the late 1800s showing merchants, the Amirov brothers (Sergei, Egor, and Isaiah), owned the house in 1885. In 1908, Isaiah Amirov's daughter Elizaveta became the owner. It then passed to her daughter, Anastasia Ezhubova (Georgievna) after her marriage in 1912. Interestingly, the Georgian magazine "Literary Georgia" had its editorial office here in the 1970s and 1990s. The house itself was built in the 1870s on the site of an older one. During the 1880s, a second floor with balconies and a stained glass loggia was added. This house is a great example of traditional mid-19th-century houses in Tbilisi. The facade follows the classicist style of the time, with symmetrical wooden balconies and stained glass windows. It also has a courtyard lobby, a typical feature of residential buildings from that era. Tbilisi architects first documented the house in 1920, with a drawing by Nikolai Severov preserved in the Tbilisi History Museum. There's also a model of the house created in the 1930s by Joseph Grishashvili. Around the same time, the building was recognized as an important example of Tbilisi architecture and a mid-19th-century residential structure. The building has been restored twice: in the 1970s-1980s and again between 2016 and 2021.

 

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