THE HANDSOME THOROUGHFARE IN TlFUS WHICH BEARS THE NAME OF RUSSIA'S 



GREAT POET, PUSHKIN 



_ Just beyond the caravansary to the left is a large bust of the famous author of "The 

 Prisoner in the Caucasus and of many other works which are greatly loved by the Georgians 

 and Armenians as well as the Russian residents in the Caucasus 



Photographs by Melville Chater 

 THE CARAVANSARY OF TlFEIS, HUB OF THE CAUCASUS 



caraJan 9 Tn^ionl'nMi^i ^T ■? r YCS the P ? r ?° Se ° f a restin ^ P lace for the slow-paced 



(|1 ' ■ u } C ll USe hU A l - mg n° St ° f tie dectric trolle y s of Tiflis «ow stop. The 

 ornate equipage in the foreground is a Georgian hearse. 



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