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ulmobeli saqmis kaci Relentless Man of Business
„Sroma kacis guls da sxeuls ar awuxebdes, arc simdabled iTvlebodes“ _ miaCnda sazogadoebrivi winsvlis orientirad qarTvel moazrovnes, publicists, iurists, ekonomists, finansists, sazogado moRvawesa da did praqtikoss, niko nikolaZes. Tavadac ase cxovrobda da qmnida. swored am muxlCauxreli Sromis mematianea memorialuri saxl-muzeumi qvemo imereTSi, did jixaiSSi. 1886 wels, soflis SuagulSi, ulamazes ezo-parkSi, marselis Sindisferi kramitiT daxuruli saxli augia deduleTSi, lorTqifaniZeebiseul miwa-wyalze dasaxlebul nikos. Senoba Semdeg samjer gadaukeTebia, 1910-ian wlebSi ki Svedi arqiteqtoris edmund frikis proeqtis mixedviT misTvis saboloo saxe miucia da aivnebi, marani, sardafi Tu sxva, evropidan gamowerili, ruseTis imperiis masStabiT saxlTmSeneblobaSi pirvelad gamoyenebuli betoniT mougia... “Work should not disturb the heart and body of Man, and neither should it be considered to be beneath him” –this was the opinion of the Georgian thinker, publicist, lawyer, economist, financial expert, public figure and great practician, Niko Nikoladze. He himself lived and created by this rule, too. The memorial house museum in the village of Didi Jikhaishi, in Imereti province, is a monument to precisely this kind of tireless work. Niko, who had settled on the land of his mother’s family, the Lortkipanidzes, built a house tiled with burgundy-colored Marseilles roof tiles in 1886, in the middle of the village. He altered the structure of the house three times, and gave it its final form in the 1910s, based on a project by Swedish architect Frike. He constructed the balconies, the cellar, and the wine cellar with concrete that was shipped from Europe, unprecedented in the Russian Empire at the time...
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