 მთაწმინდა, meaning the Holy Mountain) and was officially established in 1929.Atop the mountain is Mtatsminda Park, an amusement park owned by the municipality of Tbilisi.The first celebrities to be buried at this place were the Russian writer Alexander Griboyedov (1795–1829) and his Georgian wife Nino Chavchavadze (1812–1857).