page_title: Karbelashvili brothers
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Karbelashvili brothers / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Karbelashvili brothers house-museum in Kvemo Chala
context_page_description: The Karbelashvili brothers – Pilimon, Andria, Petre, Polievktos, and Vasil – were five brothers from Georgia active in the preservation of Georgian musical and religious traditions during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. For their efforts they were canonized by the Georgian Orthodox Church in 2011.
context_section_description: The process of collecting and publishing the traditional chants of Georgia is considered a watershed moment in Georgian history. It led not only to the preservation of a long musical tradition, but to the beginnings of an effort to revive the tradition of chanting in Georgia. New editions of the chants continue to be published and disseminated.
  For their efforts towards the preservation of Georgian chant and national identity, the Karbelashvili brothers were canonized by the Georgian Orthodox Church on December 20, 2011. Their feast day is September 6, the anniversary of the martyrdom of Andria and Petre. A museum in Kvemo Chala, housed in the former family residence, is dedicated to the brothers, and a street in Tbilisi is named for them. The brothers were the subject of a documentary film by Sandro Vakhtangov, Chronicles of One Family: Saint Karbelashvili Brothers, released in 2012.
  Descendants of the brothers include the painter Mary Karbelashvili.
caption: The brothers' family home in Kvemo Chala, seen in June 2019
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