Manuscript Fund
The manuscript fund includes documents, programs, personal manuscripts and sketches of all theaters in Georgia. This collection has been constantly replenished since 1861. The fund contains about 40 thousand manuscripts of writers, public figures and artists working in Georgia, a charter issued by King Solomon II of Imereti, signed letters of the princes and queens of Samegrelo, Grigol Dadiani, Nino and Mariam Dadiani, personal correspondence of the French princess Salome Dadiani, cards in German of Agrafina Japaridze-Zarnikau and Konstantin of Oldenburg. The archives preserved in the fund are rich and diverse: there are both personal and business correspondence, as well as notes, scripts, diaries, collections of poems, plays, music notebooks, scores, etc.
The manuscript fund contains the manuscripts of Vazha-Pshavela, Akaki Tsereteli, Galaktion Tabidze, Ioseb Grishashvili, Ivane Machabeli and others. The archives of Vano Sarajishvili, Ushangi Chkheidze, Akaki Khorava, Akaki Vasadze, Mikheil Chiaureli, Veriko Anjaparidze, Sergo Zakariadze, Sesilia Takaishvili and others are preserved as collections.
Also presented are the autographs of foreign figures Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Theodore Chaliapin, Dmitry Shostakovich, Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov. In addition to personal archives, the fund stores important materials from the Tbilisi Kote Marjanishvili and Shota Rustaveli State Theaters. Ancient programs of Telavi, Kutaisi, Batumi and other regional theaters. As well as the histories and programs of the Georgian and Abkhazian troupes of Abkhazia, Ossetia, Azerbaijan, and Sukhumi theaters.
Unique documents of the Duruj Corporation and programs of Tbilisi treasury theaters. Materials depicting the history of the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theater, programs of the Tbilisi Dramatic Society (1893-1903), which are printed on colored silk fabrics. The fund also preserves Georgian and Russian-language film scripts, and filming records.