
Family portrait including the grandmother of Aleksandre Didebulidze from the Shvank family.
Studio family portrait showing members of the Shvank family, including the grandmother of Georgian scientist Aleksandre Didebulidze. The photograph presents a multi-generation family group typical of late nineteenth-century studio photography in the Russian Imperial period. Family portraits of this kind were often commissioned to document lineage and preserve family memory, and they form an important part of Georgian private photographic archives.