[1] In 1941, she was one of the founders of the Institute of History of Georgian Art (today the Giorgi Chubinashvili National Centre for the Study of Georgian Art History and Monument Protection) at the Georgian National Academy of Sciences.
[1] Her work concerned Georgian paleography, architecture, ironworking, illuminated manuscripts, and other medieval and Byzantine arts.
[1][2] She led expeditions to Svaneti and Dagestan to study the early Christian architecture of these regions in the 1950s.
At one of the first artistic exhibitions in Tbilisi after the loosening of censorship with the death of Stalin in 1953, she said, "I am glad that browns have left these walls and that true colors shine on them now.
"[6] Her collection of bookplates (ex libris), which includes works by famous Georgian artists Vladimir Grigolia [ka] and Nikoloz Chernishkov (ru), was the subject of an exhibition in 2014.