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By: Oskar Schmerling
The caricature shows an interaction at the café of the Transport Society of Transcaucasia. The picture depicts a conversation between a guest and a waiter: (Guest) - It seems that y...
By: Oskar Schmerling
The picture follows a story about a public officer who used to squander the State treasury money. He spent the money at gambling houses.  This illustration shows him waking up to find ...
By: Oskar Schmerling
The illustration follows a story about Peter, who had great expectations for Easter, since he knew he would drink too much wine. He drank with every family he visited.  In this picture...
By: Oskar Schmerling
The illustration is followed by a small dialogue providing context. The picture shows events that occurred during the Easter holiday. The two men depicted in the upper part of the composi...
By: Oskar Schmerling
The illustration follows a story that was depicted in a picture we titled "Hunter (1)". Here we see Levarsi returning to his village while looking proud as he showed people the rabbit, te...
By: Oskar Schmerling
The picture illustrates a story about a hunter, named Levarsi, who was a coward yet sly. Once Levarsi went into the woods, but couldn’t bring himself to kill any animals because he was af...
By: Oskar Schmerling
The picture illustrates a dialogue of two men. The one on the left wearing poor clothes is a Kurd, and the one on the right  is an Englishman. This illustration is a commentary on the Kur...
By: Oskar Schmerling
The picture shows a workman from Tbilisi that has just received his salary. However, afterwards he had to pay taxes for several services and organizations. Thus, all of his money was spen...
By: Oskar Schmerling
This illustration is connected to the St Nedelya Church assault. It is important that the dogs are barking at the man wearing hat with a star on it. Since the red star was an important sy...
By: Oskar Schmerling
The St. Nedelya Church in Sofia, Bulgaria was attacked on April 16, 1925. A group of Bulgarian communists blew up the church's dome during the funeral service of General Konstantin Georgi...
By: Oskar Schmerling
The newspaper is called Tiflis Sheet (Тифлисский листок) and the implication of the caricature seems to be that the paper has no higher purpose than making money. Khristofor Khachaturo...
By: Oskar Schmerling
The illustration depicts Iakob Gogebashvili, a Georgian educator, children’s writer, and author of the classic Georgian primer, Deda Ena (დედა ენა), or Mother Tongue, published in 1876, w...