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Tbilisi State University received a part of the personal archive of Elise Pataridze, a prominent representative of the Georgian emigration, brought by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to France, Gocha Javakhishvili.
Elise’s children, Tinatin Pataridze and Otar Pataridze handed over the archive to the Ambassador in Paris. Archival materials - Elise Pataridze’s articles, reports and publications, previously unknown to the Georgian public, were transferred to the University Library by the decision of the Pataridze family.
TSU Rector, Academician Jaba Samushia, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to the Republic of France, Gocha Javakhishvili, the Head of the TSU Library Zurab Gaiparashvili, Elise Pataridze’s grandson and the library staff attended the event.
The Rector thanked the Ambassador for the important work he is actively engaged in to establish close relations and deepen cooperation between the two countries. On the initiative of Jaba Samushia, Pataridze’s archive will be preserved as a separate collection and the materials will be digitized.
Ambassador Javakhishvili said that his work is very interesting and responsible. “I am trying my best to find information about the patriotic people of our country in France, where they emigrated, to return all existing documents and personal belongings of our emigrants to the country. These documents are very important for our history, I am sure that interested people and researchers will work on them,” said Gocha Javakhishvili .
After graduating from the Kutaisi Noble Gymnasium (1917), Elise Pataridze enrolled in the Tbilisi State University. He was a political and social activist, a member of the Georgian National Democratic Party and secretary of its main committee. After the establishment of the Soviet regime, he participated in the resistance movement, in the August 1924 uprising, after the defeat of which he joined the political emigration to France. The years spent at the Tbilisi University remained a vivid memory for Elise Pataridze throughout his life. As a token of this love, in 1962 he donated to the University Library a two-volume rarity: A Voyage into the Levant by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (Paris, 1717).
