Lermontov street is at Machabeli cross-roads in parallel with Leonidze street. At the beginning of the street there was a house of the general-major Fedor Akhverdov in the 19th century. In 1816 he came from Saint-Petersburg to the Caucasus having been appointed as a commander of Caucasian artillery corps. He settled with his family in Lermontov street in Tbilisi. The hostess of the house, Praskovia Arsenieva, who was Lermontov's second aunt, cre-ated a saloon which played a great role in the cultural life of then Tbilisi as this house became the center of the high society and literal life of the town. Kyuxelbeker, Pushkin, exiled Decembrists Iskritski, Iakubovich, Rinkevich and others visited it. In 1837 during his first exile a great Russian poet M. Lermontov lived in Akhverdovs' house. The prince Alexander Chavchavadze's family lodged its outhouse. Cha-vchavadze's house was famous for its hospitality all over Tbilisi. The heart of the hospitable house were women - his wife Salome and two beautiful daughters - Nina and Ekaterina. According to their contemporaries, Chavchavadze's house was a link between Russian and Georgian intelligentsia. Lermontov often visited Chavchavadze's family and talked to a widow Nina Chavchavadze in 1829. According to the legend, she presented Lermontov the daggers from her husband and father's collection in remembrance when they parted. And Lermontov wrote his poem "Dagger" dedicated to this event. The families of Akhverdov and Chavchavadze had kin's and friendly connections. Their children were brought up together. Alexander Griboedov met Nina Chavchavadze in the family of Akhverdov and they fell in love with each other. Here he proposed to her.
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