Patardzeuli

The introduction

Hello everyone, I hope, that you are all doing just fine!

In this article I want to tell you about this village in eastern part of Georgia, where partly I am from and where my grandparents are from and we have relatives there and we used to visit them pretty often. It’s a historical village with some historical buildings still standing there keeping the history to remind us of the things that our ancestors went through to defend our country.

This village is called Patardzeuli and it’s not a very small village, if you want to know the truth.

About Patardzeuli

Well, the village is located on the East of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, and it’s not very far from it, it’s about 50 kilometres far from Tbilisi and it’s like 20 minutes drive from the capital, so that, it’s not very far, considering, that getting from one end of Tbilisi to the other one takes about one hour drive!

Patardzeuli is in Sagarejo district, which is in Kakheti Region and mostly, it’s well-known because of the famous Georgian writer Giorgi Leonidze.He was born there in Patardzeuli and there’s still his house there, where he used to live and now it’s a museum, where you can go and see how he lived and what kind of environment he had around him. You know, my grandmother grew up in Patardzeuli and she often told me, that there was a time, when she had to live in Giorgi Leonidze house and that’s really something, that I remember and not forget.

The village of Patardzeuli is noticed in the historical sources from the 18-th century. It’s said, that the village was founded by a couple of families, who settled there from Bazaleti. That Patardzeuli fortress is from the 18-th century, too. It had been very damaged after the enemy visits and it was Erekle II in 1758 who reconstructed the fortress. There was Paata Temurashvili, who was a resident of Patardzeuli, who attended every battle that Erekle II had with enemies.

There’s a saying about the village’s name, too, that I have heard somewhere someone telling a story about it. It’s said, that once when it was a battletime, all the men in the village were called for the battle. There were only women and old men and children left in the village. And so there were many brides left without their husbands during that period, they called that place “Patardzleuli”, which meant “of the brides”or something like that.

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