In the heart of Tbilisi's historic Art Nouveau neighborhood of Sololaki district, amid the city's architectural eclecticism lies a beautiful mansion, colloquially coined by the locals as the famous "Italian villa." Located on Geronti Kikodze Street #11, the house was built in 1914 by a prominent architect of Armenian descent, Gabriel Ter-Mikelov. The mansion with a majestically crafted stone balcony overlooking a beautiful Italian Renaissance-style garden belonged to two brothers, Arshak and Arkady Milov (Miliants), at the time prominent figures in the oil-trading sector. Shortly after the 1917 Revolution, the main floor of the mansion was used as a reception area for registering white army officers in the early days of the Soviet Occupation of the Georgian Democratic Republic, and those who failed to appear and register in person were sent to labor camps. Soon thereafter, the mansion became a famous home to high-ranking communist officials in the Georgian SSR.