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[Mel Johnson]

But in light of Stalin, what else can you call somebody who sleeps in three different rooms of the same house in one night so people can't find him, and would intentionally lie about his plans for the next day to the same end?  Puckish?  Or Robert Joffrey?

[leonid]

Mel Johnson, on Jul 12 2007, 08:25 PM, said:

But in light of Stalin, what else can you call somebody who sleeps in three different rooms of the same house in one night so people can't find him, and would intentionally lie about his plans for the next day to the same end?  Puckish?  Or Robert Joffrey?

Thank you Mel, I laughed out loud at your post.

If you would like to see some extraordinary photographs of Chabukiani there is a site dedicated to him at http://chabukiani.iatp.ge/albomi.htm
Unfortunately for me it is written in the contemporary Georgian script known as mkhedruli ('military'). If  you click on the 4th link from the left (or for rabid anti-soviet art readers 3rd from the right) which states ალბომი  just below the banner, you will find a portal to many photographs of Chabukiani some which show extraordinary elevation and others in a rather over the top arty pose which were considered artistic rather than effeminate at the time. If you left click on the image you get an enlarged photograph. Chabukiani appears to become the role or his idea of the role in each photograph.

[carbro]

These are great, leonid.  Thanks.

About Georgian writing, does anyone know whether it reads ---->   or <-----  ?  It is beautiful, looks vaguely Arabic, and a little like Burmese writing that adorned the walls of my favorite bygone restaurant.  

[leonid]

carbro, on Jul 13 2007, 07:47 PM, said:

These are great, leonid.  Thanks.

About Georgian writing, does anyone know whether it reads ---->   or <-----  ?  It is beautiful, looks vaguely Arabic, and a little like Burmese writing that adorned the walls of my favorite bygone restaurant.  

Left to right.