Abstract
At the beginning of the last century, the devastating First World War also altered the intellectual world's agenda. The main trends of that most challenging time were also reflected in the pages of Georgian periodicals. Grigol Robakidze began publishing his opuses in the newspaper "Kavkazi" in 1914. In these pieces, the author delves deeply into the existential problems of the countries being involved in the world war, studies and analyzes the national markers of the main figurants of a “big war” (Germany, Russia, France, etc.), discusses their national phenomenon, etc. Robakidze's publicistic letters dedicated to the study of the German "urphenomenon", are of conceptual nature. When discussing the spiritual markers of pre-war Europe, Grigol Robakidze makes reference to Richard Hamann's "Impressionism in Life and Art".