The man pictured is Arshak Babov, who was a mechanical engineer and the head of the Technical Institute of Tbilisi. The Technical Institute of Tbilisi was established in 1917, while this ...
The picture illustrates zurna players in a carriage. The poem following the illustration focuses on the specific sonority of the instrument. The poem is dedicated to Vladimer Mikeladze,* ...
The caricature is a religious allusion to one of the greatest Christian feasts - the Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit descended upon the Apostles of Jesus Christ.
The person sitting at ...
This issue of Devil’s Whip was published around the Easter holidays. The picture includes an Easter egg and Paska. Considering that the “Devil” represents the author of the journal, this ...
The poem accompanying the picture describes the Tbilisi School of Gardens that was located in Didube quarter, near the “Mushthaid” garden. The school is in poor condition: the classrooms ...
The illustration responds to the events of the summer of 1908, when the Young Turk Revolution broke out and the Ottoman sultan, Abdul Hamid II, had to cede most of his power and wealth. T...
This illustration, accompanied by a verse, depicts the struggle of the Georgian movement against the Russian administration. The bison’s thick skin that deflects the arrows shot at it is ...
This is an illustration of a meeting of the retailers of Tbilisi. We see the depiction of the “Devil” on the foreground of the composition - symbolizing the story’s narrator's active role...
On the first and the second pages of the journal is a story about the meeting of the Society for the Spreading of Literacy among Georgians. The pseudonym of the writer is “Devil”,* which ...
The illustration shows us a man working the land with a plough and oxen. It is important to note that he has horns on his head. This could be an indication that he is Tartazori.* In this ...
In the picture we see people leaving the Transport Society café. They have eaten their dinner and now have stomach aches.
Source: The National Parliamentary Library of Georgia
Nighty night, sleep tight
In the illustration people are falling asleep while waiting for their dinner at the café of the Transport Society of Transcaucasia.
Source: The Nation...