ANNA GOGOBERIDZE-THE FOUNDER OF AKHALTSIKHE WOMEN SCHOOL

Abstract

Women played a big role in the social life of the society and in the promotion of the national culture.

XX century events made the background for the complete understanding of the women‘s role and the necessity of their education became vital. Women from every part of Georgia together with Meskhetian women played a significant role in the promotion of women‘s education in Samtskhe-Javakheti region in the XIX century. Among them was Anna-Gogoberidze-Muskhelishvli.

In 1870 she established charity society in Akhaltsikhe, after that she founded Rabati women school where girls of different nationality and denomination got free primary education and they were taught needlework. Women of this school took part in various levels of exhibitions and propagandized the Georgian culture. Anna Gogoberidze-Muskhelishvili was actively involved in the revival of the Georgian theatre. The aim of her activities generally was to strengthen the national consciousness and promote the local culture development.