Taking the Georgian Military Highway to Kazbegi and hiking in the Nature Reserve Stretching from Tbilisi to Russia via some of the most mountainous terrain on earth, the Highway has existed as a route since before the 1st century BC but was only a basic track. In 1783 the Russians converted it into a carriage road via a hurculean effort requiring more than 800 soldiers. In 1829 Pushkin and many other Russian writers such as Gorky and Tolstoy followed this route to Tbilisi. In 1883, following the opening of the railway via the Caspian coast, the road lost much of its' importance. The border was closed during the recent 2008 war between Georgia and Russia. However the Russians did not attempt to use this route for their attacks, as it is very easily defended with deep,
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