Niko Pirosmanashvili Catharine Biddle having left her grandmother and

having left her grandmother and father behind

The story is told through the eyes and experiences of Brian as he resists top-down government directives on how his school should be run and instead strives to build a vibrant curriculum with which to hook the imaginations of today's children

and to identify potential sources of support and to build resilience

in order to eventually function outside of residential care

“But tell it to me anyway

Niko Pirosmanashvili Catharine Biddle having left her grandmother andNiko Pirosmanashvili comprehensively tells the story of the life and work of elusive Georgian painter Niko Pirosmanashvili (c. 1866 1918), popularly known as Pirosmani, during one of the most interesting epochs in the history of Georgia. Key essays, both recollections by those who knew him and contemporary scholarship, explore his life as an impoverished artist living in Tbilisi. Charting his influence on the Georgian and Russian avant gardists to the