European Encounters with Georgia in past and present / Françoise Companjen -- Relations between Georgia and Europe in the 17-th and 18-th centuries: The value of dictionaries / Givi Taktakishvili -- Germans in Georgia: ethnographic mining or minerals? / Gia Gelashvili -- 19-th century French perception of Georgia: from the Treaty of Fincenstein to Trade and Toerism / George Sanikidze -- Alexander Chavchavadze and the Europanisation of his wine / Irakli Pipia -- The Wardrops and Georgia. The Oxford-Tbilisi connection / Manana Rusieshvili-Cartledge -- Trevor Cartledge -- Georgian student encounters with Russian and European Universities, 1861-1917 -A Generational Approach / Oliver Reisner -- Odette Keun:a critical socialist in Menshevic Georgia / Françoise Companjen -- Grigol Peradze (1899-1942)-the scholarly and religious encounters of a Saint. Germany and Poland / Fr.Henryk Paprocki -- A Dutch travellers' notes froum Vladikavkaz just before the dissolution of the Soviet Inion: ethnic deportations and conflicts / Marc Jansen -- Georgia, 25 years of inddependence: Encounters with the EU / Thijs Rommens -- Short Biographies in Alphabetical order.