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Kukiyan Cemetery in Tbilisi

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Kukiyan Cemetery in Tbilisi

The Kukijski ('French') cemetery is a very extensive necropolis, where one can undoubtedly find many more graves of Poles than the seven mentioned by Zbigniew Hauser. Among them are the tombstones of two Polish mining engineers in the form of imposing crosses on rocks: Klemens Ruciewicz (d. 1911) and Jozef Arkadiusz Szmidecki (d. 1908). Notable, not only for its height, is the monument to the Tblilis parish priest, Father Maximilian Orlovsky, who died in 1891. On a moulded rock with a grey marble plaque bearing a Latin inscription, there is a plinth with a relief of an angel in white marble. The whole is crowned by a tall cross entwined with a garland-like ornament.

The most well-known object at the Kukija necropolis connected with Polish culture is the gravestone of Dagny Juel-Przybyszewska, who died tragically during her stay in Tbilisi in 1901. Her ashes were transferred to the Alley of the Deserving in 1999, and a new black marble slab with a bilingual inscription (in Polish and Georgian) was placed there. The old massive slab of red marble with a relief cross and inscription in Polish and Norwegian remained in its former place.

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Bibliography:
  • Hauser Zbigniew, „Podróże po cmentarzach Ukrainy”, t. IV, „Województwa: wołyńskie, podolskie, bracławskie i kijowskie”, Kraków 2009, s. 517-518.
Author:
Alicja Czuber-Filonik
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