Cachava Clinic

The author of the building built in 1912, located at 38, M. Kostava St., is Alexander Rogoiski, a famous Polish architect who worked in Tbilisi at the beginning of the 20th century. The building was designed for one of the oldest medical institutions in Georgia, with the support of Olga Romanova, the first daughter of Nicholas II, and Alexandra Feodorovna. The first midwifery institute in Transcaucasia was established in 1875. Since 1912, it has been named the Scientific Research Institute of Maternal and Child Protection. The large-scale, four-story building follows the fashionable and popular modern "Art Nouveau" aesthetics at the time, however, the orderly facade divided by the frequent and even rhythm of the rectangular doors and windows is distinguished by unusually "quiet" plastic for this style. The facade wall is perceived as a single, "lapidary plane". A certain dynamism is given to it by the gabled bay windows of the central risalite and its crowning curved parapet.