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Or 5315

Record Id:
032-002558704
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002558704
MDARK:
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LARK:
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Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Or 5315
Title:

მუშა ('The Worker')

Scope & Content:

A monthly handwritten journal of Georgian workers.

This journal obviously aimed to spread propaganda amongst peasants and workers.

The articles are naive; some of them, especially those in verse, sound more like prayers or dreams of the better times to come rather then fuming revolutionary calls. It brings together a very interesting combination of different accounts including sermons.

The names of the authors of articles in prose and verse could be for obvious reasons fictitious.

The numbers are dated 1889-1891 as follows:

  • No 1, 1889 Fol. 1r-13v
  • No 2, 1889 Fol. 14r-29v
  • No 3, 1889 Fol. 30r-44v
  • No 4, 1889 Fol. 45r-56v
  • No 1, 1890 Fol. 57r-71v
  • No 2, 1890 Fol. 72r-86v
  • No 3, 1890 Fol. 87r-96v
  • No 4, 1890 Fol. 97r-107v
  • No.1, 1891 Fol. 108r-122v
  • No.2, 1891 Fol. 123r-138v
Collection Area:
Oriental Manuscripts
Hierarchy Tree:
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002558704
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Hierarchy:
032-002558704
Container:
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 manuscript
Digitised Content:
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Languages:
English
Georgian
Scripts:
Georgian
Start Date:
1800
End Date:
1899
Date Range:
19th century
Era:
CE
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User Conditions:
Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper.

Dimensions: 230 mm x 190 mm.

Foliation: 138 folios.

Binding: British Museum.

Script: It is apparently the work of one hand, evidently a working man including the illustrations, initials and borders. The handwriting is very neat and resembles a diligent schoolboy rather than an angry worker.

Custodial History:

Georgia, Tbilisi

Source of Acquisition:

The journal was presented to the Museum by Prince Varlaam Cherkezishvili, on February 10, 1898. Varlam Cherkezishvili was a Georgian nobleman, intellectual, politician, writer and journalist, involved in the anarchist movement, and later in the Georgian national liberation movement. He was also known as Warlaam Tcherkesoff or Varlam Cherkezov.

Administrative Context:

Georgia, Tbilisi

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)