Georgia and its People

Abstract

IN a laudatory introduction to this book, Sir Denison Boss emphasises the scant attention Georgia has received latterly from historians and other scholars. Since the publication of Brosset's “L'Histoire de la Géorgie”, three quarters of a century ago, nearly everything that has been written relating to the people and the country has appeared in either Russian or Georgian. For this,no doubt, its troubled history in the earlier half of the last century is responsible; but it is surprising that a country, of which the beauty and charm has been celebrated by more than one Russian writer well known to the western world, should have been thus neglected in later years.

A History of the Georgian People: from the Beginning down to the Russian Conquest in the Nineteenth Century.

By W. E. D. Alien. Pp. xxiv + 429 + 31 plates. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1932.) 31s. 6d. net.