On this day 36 years ago, horror descended upon Tbilisi as Soviet forces violently cracked down on peaceful protesters, leaving 21 people dead and hundreds injured in the streets of the capital. Since then, this day has become one of the most significant in Georgia’s history and so again today, people are gathering on Rustaveli Avenue in remembrance and protest.
Honoring this memory I am sharing a now-iconic photograph made on this day by Georgian photographer Yuri Mechitov, that was also featured in our 2018 book „Tamar, Where Are You?“.
