Zurab Tsereteli was born on January 4th, 1934 in Tbilisi (Georgia). In 1958, Zurab Tsereteli graduated from the Tbilisi Academy of Arts where he majored in painting. The experience obtained by the young artist in the early 1960s during his work for the Institute of Ethnography and Archeology of the Georgian Academy of Sciences was an unparalleled opportunity to study old folk art.

Zurab Tsereteli started out as a designer of resort complexes in Pitsunda and Adler in the late 1960s that proved his high status of the artist who brilliantly completed big monumental projects. Tsereteli's sculptural mosaics in Adler were enthusiastically appreciated by David Alfaro Siqueiros: "I think, that he has entered boundless spac...