„I am originally from Guria, but I lived in Tbilisi. My husband and I ended up in Rustavi because of the family situation. Rustavi was a completely new and strange city; I did not know anyone here. To be part of a city, you have
„War! Even the sound of this word is terrible and imagine surviving the actual war. It was June 22 of 1941. I was a 10th grade pupil. In the yard where I lived, a radio was installed on a tree, broadcasting news. That morning they
Elene Dariani’s personality has been wrapped in mystery in the history of the Georgian literature. 14 poems in the literary works of Paolo Iashvili, a famous Georgian poet, are combined under the name of the ‘Darian cycle’. Therefore, until recently it was thought that these
„All my life I’ve seen nothing but suffering… I was six when my mother died. I remember myself running in our land plot, yelling “mom’s dead”. At 7, I went to school. I didn’t have any clothes to wear. They cut up my mothers clothes,
„I am a Kist woman. I grew up in the Pankisi Gorge and finished middle school here. As I wanted to enroll at a medical university, I went to Tbilisi and graduated from a high school there with honors. In those times graduates with honors
„My mother was a teacher, a proud and beautiful woman. But she was paralyzed from childbirth after she had twins. Her husband abandoned her and left her alone with three children – my three-year old brother, my twin sibling and me. It was 1930 -
“After finishing school, I wanted to enroll in a dental college, but the college was not adapted for the deaf and hard of hearing people in Georgia. There was one in Russia, but I was already married and I could not travel there. Later, I
„Before 2011, my passion for cultivation of land was limited to potted plants. All my childhood I had been envious of my classmates who ran off to their countryside houses on weekends. In 2011, we participated in a grant competition within the project of USAID/NEO
„I was born male but I am an intersex person, i.e. a person with xx chromosome. I was different from other children since my childhood. Everybody noticed that in the family, the more so that I was most different from 8 siblings (of which 4