Orbeliani Palace
| Orbeliani Palace | |
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ორბელიანის სასახლე | |
| File:Orbeliani Palace.jpg Orbeliani Palace in 2019 | |
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| General information | |
| Status | Active |
| Location | 25 Atoneli Street, Tbilisi, Georgia |
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| Current tenants | Mikheil Kavelashvili, President of Georgia |
| Website | |
| president.ge | |
| Official name | Government Residence /Residential house |
| Designated | October 1, 2007 |
| Reference no. | 3730 |
| Item Number in Cultural Heritage Portal | 3555 |
| Date of entry in the registry | October 11, 2007 |
| Accounting Card / Passport # | 010306215 |
The Orbeliani Palace (Georgian: ორბელიანის სასახლე, romanized: orbelianis sasakhle) or the Atoneli Residence (Georgian: ათონელის რეზიდენცია, romanized: atonelis rezidentsia) is the official residence of the president of Georgia since November 2018. It is located on Atoneli Street in Central Tbilisi.[1][2][3] It was once home to Elizabeth Orbeliani, a Georgian poet and the country's first female academic.
History
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The Orbeliani Palace dates back to the end of the 19th century.[4] Its residents included Grigol Orbeliani, a Georgian Romanticist poet, and Elizabeth Orbeliani, a poet and Georgia's first woman professor. To this day, a room in the palace dedicated to Elizabeth Orbeliani[5] is used to receive foreign dignitaries.[6]
The building also served as the U.S. Embassy in Georgia in the 1990s and early 2000s. In 2013, about 25 million Georgian lari was spent renovating the palace.[7]
The palace is sometimes called the "Atoneli Residence" because it is located on Atoneli Street, named after the medieval Georgian monk George of Athos.[8]
Presidential residence
[edit | edit source]Georgian politician and former French diplomat Salome Zourabichvili announced during her 2018 presidential campaign that she would not work from the Avlabari Presidential Palace if elected. That palace, which opened in July 2009, was built during the presidency of Mikheil Saakashvili, with whom Zourabichvili had a fallout. Zourabichvili stated that she preferred Orbeliani Palace because it was more understated and that members of the House of Orbeliani and Baratashvili, who once resided there, were her ancestors.[9][10]
After her election, she met with the outgoing President, Giorgi Margvelashvili, in the Avlabari Palace before moving into the Orbeliani Palace on 18 December 2018.[11]
Names of reception rooms
[edit | edit source]- Amra Hall
- Galaktion Hall
- Golden Fleece Hall
- Prometheus Hall
- Rustaveli Hall
- Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani Presidential Cabinet
Gallery
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Orbeliani Palace decorated for Christmas
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President Salome Zourabichvili meeting with foreign ambassadors inside Orbeliani Palace
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President Salome Zourabichvili meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
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President Salome Zourabichvili addressing the Deaf Association
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References
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- ^ Local Journalists in Elizabeth Orbeliani Cabinet.jpg, 23 December 2021,
- ^ ორბელიანების სასახლე, Administration of the President of Georgia, Retrieved 24 December 2023. Quote: "ელისაბედ ორბელიანი, ორბელიანების სასახლის დიასახლისი, გახლდათ თბილისის სახელმწიფო უნივერსიტეტის დამაარსებელთაგანი, პირველი ლექტორი ქალი, ქალთა უფლებების გაუმჯობესებისათვის მებრძოლი, პოეტი, ქველმოქმედი და მეცენატი. პროტოკოლის მიხედვით, მცირე კაბინეტი განკუთვნილია უცხოური დელეგაციების საქმეთწარმოებისათვის".
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Error creating thumbnail: File missing Media related to Lua error in Module:Commons_link at line 62: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). at Wikimedia Commons
