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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IvaPan, post: 6170271, member: 78949&quot;]It is not Russian, it is Georgian, could be indeed Vaja Meskhi or someone imitating him (I am not an expert in paintings). Now independent Georgia (not the USA state of&nbsp; the same name but a Caucasus country with rich history) was part of the Russian empire and consequently of its successor USSR, so the inscriptions were made in both Russian and Georgian. The inscription in Russian says &quot;inn&quot;, i.e. a hotel with a restaurant, below it there is an inscription in Georgian which I can&#039;t read, suppose it says the same.</p><p>The inscription on the back is entirely in Georgian script, there are two years though, 1955 and 1989 which for me is a sign it is not that old, most probably after the collapse of USSR /1990/, from the independence period of Georgia.</p><p>Here there are more paintings of this author, you can try and match the signature.</p><p><a href="https://vk.com/@-147970344-hudozhnik-vazha-meshi-kogda-derevya-byli-bolshimi" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://vk.com/@-147970344-hudozhnik-vazha-meshi-kogda-derevya-byli-bolshimi" rel="nofollow">https://vk.com/@-147970344-hudozhnik-vazha-meshi-kogda-derevya-byli-bolshimi</a></p><p>After some research, IMO this is his signature, and the inscription on the back starts with his name in Georgian, explaining that he was born in 1955 (a fact), probably some more fact of his biography, then the name of the painting, and then that it was painted in 1989, and then the dimensions of the painting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Vaja Meskhi was born in Tbilisi in 1955 and graduated from Tbilisi Academy of Arts in 1985, then became a member of the Union of Artists of USSR.&nbsp; Paints nostalgic scenes from old pre-revolutionary Tbilisi. Some sources say now he lives in Israel.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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