With the great chain of the Caucasus in the background, its beautiful park, and majestic yet abandoned soviet “sanatoriums”, the spa town of Tskhaltoubo, in Eastern Georgia, presents a striking view. Landscape is not so much what we see, but a way of seeing, it is a source of reminiscence or oblivion. The scenery offered by Tskhaltoubo is composed of several strata of memories, each of which is linked with specific ideological and political setting: the imperial memory, the memory of Soviet times, and finally, the post-Soviet decadence.
Key words: spa, Caucasus, memory, scenery, post-soviet, imperial, past, nostalgia.
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FILM
Jandieri, Sandro (2017), L’année dernière àTskhaltoubo, 52 min, Cineorchestra, https://vimeo.com/225094282, consulté le 16 juin 2018.
SITES
SITE DE BALNÉOSERVICE
http://tskaltuboresort.ge/rus, consulté le 16 juin 2018.
BLOG DE VOYAGEURS
https://glebwiktorow.livejournal.com/632607.html, consulté le 15 juin 2018.
http://living-la-vida-georgia.com/post-8-los-fantasmas-de-tskhaltubo.html, consulté le 16 juin 2018.
https://pikabu.ru/story/zabroshennyie_sanatorii_tskhaltubo_gruziya_3913739, consulté le 16 juin 2018.