Ilia Chavchavadze in the Strugle for Mount Athos: Mission of the Iviron and Georgian-Greek Dispute

Abstract

The work deals with two texts dedicated to the problem of ownership of the Georgians’ monastery on the Mount Athos, published in the Georgian press, with Sergei Meskhi considered as their author in the past, but recently, the texts have been included in Ilia Chavchavadze’s Selections (twenty-volume academic edition). The analysis of the form and substance of the texts makes it doubtful if the author of the texts is really Ilia Chavchavadze.