Colchis

In the distant thirties of the last century, Colchis - a flat area in Georgia along the Black Sea coast from Sukhumi to Kobuleti - was actively developed. The goal was clear - to ennoble the local landscape, drain the malaria swamps, grow tropical plants, turn the area into fertile fields and pastures, in a word, create a "flowering garden". Paustovsky writes about this. But from the pen of a clas...