JANUSZ OPASKA

During the nineteenth and early twentieth century was formed in Tbilisi, the seat of the Russian Emperor Viceroy of the Caucasus and the booming administrative and shopping center in southern Russia, Polish colony, in 1876 numbering 1592, in 1910 already 7367 people. Among the many engineers, technicians and industrial workers, doctors, teachers and soldiers, were also the architects, sculptors and painters of Polish origin. In addition to who have lived continuously in the Georgian capital, came to Tbilisi, in connection with the implementation of diverse investment, Polish architects from other provinces of the Russian Empire. At the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth century Polish designers as well sculptors and painters cooperating with them to interior and elevation decoration – in addition architects Georgian, German, Armenian and Russian nationality - were an important part of the local architectural and art environment, as evidenced by ordering them important and prestigious investment, as well the fact that occupy high offices in the provincial and municipal a architectural - building administration.

Works of Polish architects in Tbilisi (Narcyz Zborzewski, Ksawery Skórzyński, Aleksander Szymkiewicz, Aleksander Stanisław Rogojski, Henryk Hryniewski, Bronisław Brochwicz-Rogóyski, Seweryn Nowomiejski, Paweł Zabłocki-Dziesiatowski, Stanisław Mianowski, Konstanty Butkiewicz, Piotr Przybyszewski, Stefan Kryczyński, Mikołaj Obłoński, Paweł Kognowicki, Józef Kognowicki, Józef Panasiewicz, Sawicz-Ryczgórski, J. Poznań, A. Nowak), especially designed for them public buildings, theaters, headquarters offices, institutions and residential buildings account for up to today an important component of architectural landscape Georgian capital.

The article presents the profiles of architects and artists, works executed by them in Tbilisi, their works in other Georgian towns, and briefly characterized their creative achievements.

Keywords: Georgia, Tbilisi, architecture 19^th-20^th centuries