The monument sits at the top of a large set of stairs, overlooking the northern part of the city from different directions.

There are 16 pillars that are between 30–35 meters tall and the top half features kings, queens, and heroes while the bottom part depicts stories from the life of Christ.

Beside bronze[1] pillars, there is a grapevine cross of St. Nino, who first brought Christianity to Georgia, and a chapel.

[2][3][4] The Chronicle of Georgia is located on Keeni Mountain, a large hill in the northern part of Tbilisi.

“After the beginning of the Christian era, a minor revolution took place in the culture of the sedentary shell-fish eating people.

They begin to make pottery!”(Sears 4) Therefore, Georgian pottery-making technology is also demonstrated at the top of the Chronicle of Georgia.

In the early 1990s, due to the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Russo Georgian war, there was a lack of funds, and the monument was never fully completed.

Born in Tbilisi on January 4, 1934, Zurab Konstantinovich Tsereteli is a Georgian-Russian sculptor and architect of large-scale monuments.

During the same time he was working on the Chronicle of Georgia, he also built the Friendship Forever monument in Moscow's Tishinskaya square.