Year: 1989

Postcard made in the Soviet Union with the bust of Shota Rustaveli. The bust stands in Abkhazia. Shota Rustaveli (1160-1220), mononymously known simply as Rustaveli, was a medieval Georgian poet. He is considered to be the pre-eminent poet of the Georgian Golden Age and one of the greatest contributors to Georgian literature. Rustaveli was the author of The Knight in the Panther’s Skin, which is considered to be a Georgian national epic poem.