Gudiashvili Square.

2, Gudiashvili Square. Gudiashvili (Alaverdov, then Abbasabad) square, located on the border of Kvemo Kala and Sololaki, is the place where the network of winding streets of medieval Tbilisi and the urban fabric of the 19th-20th centuries interwoven with mutually perpendicular streets come together. It is rich in monuments of cultural heritage. Among them, 2, Gudiashvili Square is an outstanding building, which has captured the canvases of many Georgian and foreign artists fascinated by Tiflisi. In the 19th century, the building belonged to the imperial military agency. The headquarters was located on the first floor, and the officers' hotel was located on the second floor. The Russian poet. and guard officer Mikhail Lermontov, whose name was later given to the street adjacent to the square stayed here. During the Soviet period, the former residential building was converted into the editorial office of the newspaper "Literary Georgia". The building, which was in a difficult condition, was rehabilitated in 2018-2020. One of the earliest and most important buildings of Tbilisi's urban architecture includes two chronological layers (although the basements of the house are even older). Its earlier, right part was built in 1830, and the left part belongs to the 1850s. In the secular architecture of the historical cities of Georgia, the newly introduced classicist tendencies from Russia were met by the local construction tradition and clearly established aesthetics, which is why the given building stylistically offers a harmonious mixture of elements of Georgian, oriental, and classicist architecture. All the elements characteristic of Tbilisi houses are gathered in the building: on one side - facades surrounded by a transparent wooden balcony, on the opposite side - classicistic, stone-lit columns and a musharabi balcony with colored glass, including - a courtyard separated from the street by a gated fence, with elegant wooden columns, balconies, and stairs. Under the ground, there are cellars with brick vaults older than the house itself. The building, given its artistic-architectural value, spatial-planning structure, and arches, is one of the unique sites of Old Tbilisi.