Kavelashvili, Georgian delegation visit National Museum in Belgrade

BELGRADE - Georgian President Mikheil Kavelashvili, his wife Tamar Bagrationi and a Georgian delegation visited the National Museum in Belgrade, where they were hosted by Serbian Culture Minister Nikola Selakovic.

Alongside Selakovic, they were welcomed by the museum's director, Bojana Boric Breskovic, and curator Dejana Babajic, who gave them a tour of the museum's exhibition.

They had an opportunity to see the Miroslav Gospel, one of the most significant Cyrillic monuments of Serbian and south Slavic and Serbo-Slavic literacy from the 12th century, included in UNESCO's Memory of the World library in 2005.

Afterwards, the delegation was given a presentation of Paja Jovanovic's painting The Coronation of Emperor Dusan, one of the most remarkable works in the museum's permanent exhibition.

They also toured exhibitions on Serbian mediaeval art, which includes exceptional and very diverse exhibits such as jewelry, ceramic items, icons, frescoes and copies of frescoes, liturgical items and applied art, as well as an exhibition on Serbian art in the 18th and 19th centuries, including paintings by Jovanovic and Uros Predic.

Selakovic also informed Kavelashvili of the history of the birth of the mediaeval Serbian state.