. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. o w Hc/i<O o w H THE GEORGIAN ROAD 20I it belongs—or rather belonged—believes it to be the oldesttown in the world, founded by Noahs great-great-great grand-son, while even sober historians recognise it at the beginningof the fourth century. Here lived and reigned all the Tsarsof Georgia ; hither came the Vandals of Tamerlane and rasedthe cathedral, but Tsar Alexander I. of Georgia rebuilt it, andunder its aisles lie Georgias rulers and wise men. The cathedral. .sll()
. All the Russias; travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, & Central Asia. o w Hc/i<O o w H THE GEORGIAN ROAD 20I it belongs—or rather belonged—believes it to be the oldesttown in the world, founded by Noahs great-great-great grand-son, while even sober historians recognise it at the beginningof the fourth century. Here lived and reigned all the Tsarsof Georgia ; hither came the Vandals of Tamerlane and rasedthe cathedral, but Tsar Alexander I. of Georgia rebuilt it, andunder its aisles lie Georgias rulers and wise men. The cathedral. .sll()l,l.\G )X l.\ llil. LALLAsr itself was built originally in 328 , over the spot whereChrists seamless robe, brought from Golgotha either by a Jewor by the Centurion Longinus—the legends differ—and givenby him to his sister Sidonia, was found. She wrapped itaround her, fell dead, and as it could not be detached fromher body, she was buried in it, and until it was carried off tothe Cathedral of the Assumption at Moscow, a holy oil exudedfrom the very stones above the precious relic. Such wasold Mtskhet. To-day it is a railway station on the line fromBatum to Baku, the point where the military road meets themilitary railway—a plain village, but ennobled by the ruinsof palaces and churches telling of the wonders of the dayswhen Tsars lived here, before the proud name went north. CHAPTER XIVTIFLIS OF THE CROSS-ROADS 1
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