Photo tribute to Caucasus

Rivkin · 18th December 2004, 11:25 PM

Glad you liked it. Yes, they still do have these duels, like japanese still have their martial arts, only khevsurs keep it way more "real".

I know that there used to be a documentary made in 1982 on this duels, plus khevsurian boxing and khevsurian kastet (heavy ring actually) fighting. It's hard, but possible to order a copy.

What I really would like to see is a photo of khevsurian house with chopped off hands on it - but it seems that they took down and buried all the hands during 1930s.

But today it's very hard to get to khevsuria - even in summer some of it is covered in snow and the neighbours - chechens have a big war on their hands.

Attached images - megrelian (georgian) assasins, chechen village (tower-houses) on the border with khevsuria and chechen islamists performing islamist's war dance - zikr.

The weapon used is kaldam - adopted chechen version of a khevsurian palash.

Yannis · 19th December 2004, 11:03 AM

Rivkin thank you very much for all this work. It is amazing!

For the moment please notice my avatar

Rivkin · 20th December 2004, 01:14 AM

Very rare artifact Yannis, indeed.

The question to all is do they want this series to be continued ? I have a little material left - starts with the blade dancing.

btw, I don't know if the translation into english is any good, but there is _the_ great georgian poet Vazha Pshavela. He created two poems that becailly define khevsurian ideals - "Host and Guest" and "Aluda Ketelauri".

I would guess that commentaries would be needed to understand these poems.

18th December 2004, 11:25 PM	#1
Rivkin Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 655	Glad you liked it. Yes, they still do have these duels, like japanese still have their martial arts, only khevsurs keep it way more "real". I know that there used to be a documentary made in 1982 on this duels, plus khevsurian boxing and khevsurian kastet (heavy ring actually) fighting. It's hard, but possible to order a copy. What I really would like to see is a photo of khevsurian house with chopped off hands on it - but it seems that they took down and buried all the hands during 1930s. But today it's very hard to get to khevsuria - even in summer some of it is covered in snow and the neighbours - chechens have a big war on their hands. Attached images - megrelian (georgian) assasins, chechen village (tower-houses) on the border with khevsuria and chechen islamists performing islamist's war dance - zikr. The weapon used is kaldam - adopted chechen version of a khevsurian palash. Attached Images

19th December 2004, 11:03 AM	#2
Yannis Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Athens Greece Posts: 479	Rivkin thank you very much for all this work. It is amazing! For the moment please notice my avatar

20th December 2004, 01:14 AM	#3
Rivkin Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 655	Very rare artifact Yannis, indeed. The question to all is do they want this series to be continued ? I have a little material left - starts with the blade dancing. btw, I don't know if the translation into english is any good, but there is _the_ great georgian poet Vazha Pshavela. He created two poems that becailly define khevsurian ideals - "Host and Guest" and "Aluda Ketelauri". I would guess that commentaries would be needed to understand these poems.