Tbilisi, Georgia - April 24, 2025 The body of the deceased was taken from the airport to the Museum of Modern Art in Tbilisi, where a civil funeral service will be held for two days. Zurab Tsereteli will be buried in the Didubian Pantheon of Writers and Public Figures, next to his wife, the hereditary Georgian princess Inessa Andronikashvili-Tsereteli. In the center of the capital - in the former building of the Tiflis Cadet Corps, located on Rustaveli Avenue, the Zurab Tsereteli Museum of Contemporary Art has been functioning for many years. The memorial service for the master will be held there. Zurab Konstantinovich Tsereteli was born in Tbilisi on January 4, 1934. A Soviet, Russian, and Georgian artist—monumentalist, sculptor, and painter. In 1958, he graduated from the painting department of the Tbilisi Academy of Arts. He then worked at the Institute of History, Archaeology, and Ethnography of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, in the Art Fund, and the Union of Artists of Georgia. In 1964, he studied in France, where he interacted with Marc Chagall and Pablo Picasso. In 1980, he was the chief artist of the 22nd Olympic Games in Moscow. President of the Russian Academy of Arts. Academician of the Academy of Arts of the USSR. Hero of Socialist Labor. People's Artist of the USSR and the Russian Federation. Laureate of the Lenin Prize and two State Prizes of the USSR. Knight of the Soviet Order of Lenin, the Georgian Order of Honor, the French Order of the Legion of Honor, and a full knight of the Russian Order of Merit for the Fatherland, as well as numerous state awards from France, the USA, Azerbaijan, Spain, Chile, Kazakhstan, and Bulgaria. The author of more than 5,000 works of painting, graphics, sculpture, as well as monumental and decorative art. These include frescoes, mosaics, and panels. His works decorate Tbilisi, Moscow, Yalta, Sochi, New York, New Jersey, Seville, London, Paris, Puerto Rico, and other cities around the world.