. Manuscript of 1740s (copiest Prince Vakhushti).
Simon Janashia Museum of Georgia Most of his works were written or completed in Moscow. The best known are
Description of the Kingdom of Georgia (completed in 1745),
The Geographic Description of Georgia (completed in 1750) and two geographic atlases of the
Caucasus region accompanied by the images of several historic coats of arms (1745–46). His famous
Description of the Kingdom of Georgia is essentially an adorned synopsis of the initial texts of the corpus of medieval Georgian annals,
Kartlis Tskhovreba. Vakhushti was critical of the re-edition of the corpus assembled by a scholarly commission chaired by his father Vakhtang VI. So as to rectify perceived oversights of Vakhtang's version, Vakhushti compiled his own comprehensive history and geographical description of the Georgian people and lands. One of the chief goals of his corrective was to underscore all-Georgian political and cultural unity despite the fact that Georgia was politically divided among competing kings and princes during Vakhushti's lifetime. The popularity of Vakhushti's tome is evidenced by the many copies made of it, and his narrative significantly shaped the way in which subsequent generations have conceived of an all-Georgian past. It is also a major source on the Georgian history of the 16th and 17th centuries. Vakhushti's works were soon translated into Russian and later into French and served as a guide to many contemporary
European scholars and travelers to Caucasus up to the early 20th century. He also completed, together with his brother, Prince
Bakar, the printing of the
Bible in Georgian, which had been only partly done by their father, Vakhtang VI. He established for that purpose, in his house near Moscow, a printing-press, taught the art of printing to several Georgian clergymen, and completed the first printed edition of the Bible in Georgian in 1743. The printing-press was afterwards transferred to Moscow, where several religious works in Georgian were printed. == Family ==