gagri's

Updated: July 14, 2025

One comes upon the building unexpectedly. After looking at Gagri's ancient ruins, her fortresses, her wall built by Mithridates, one sees suddenly in a shadowy close six sorrowful little cypresses standing absolutely still like heavily dressed guardsmen and behind the cypresses and their dark green brooms, the grey wall of the church, solid, eternal.

Stephen Graham - A Tramp's Sketches