Officers House, Tbilisi, Neoclassical building on Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi, Georgia

The Officers House is a multi-story building on Rustaveli Avenue that combines traditional Georgian architectural features with prominent balconies and ornamental stone details on its facade. The structure displays carefully crafted decorative elements that shape its appearance and make it a notable example of urban architecture.

Built in 1916 to designs by architect David Chisliev as the artistic circle ("Kruzhok") of Tbilisi, the building is a European neoclassical structure on Rustaveli Avenue. In 1918 a cafe, the "Argonauts' Boat", opened in its basement, painted by artists Kirill Zdanevich, Lado Gudiashvili and Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikov. During the Second World War, as the House of the Red Army of the Transcaucasian Front, it hosted lectures on Pushkin by Vikenty Veresaev.

The building's name comes from its use as an officers' assembly, and Georgians call it ოფიცერთა სახლი. In 1918 the basement held the cafe "Argonauts' Boat", painted by Kirill Zdanevich, Lado Gudiashvili and Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikov. Today it houses Galleria TMS and the Erisioni ensemble of Georgian folk song and dance.

The building is easily accessible from outside and situated on a main avenue where it can be explored alongside other sights in the area. The exterior can be photographed, and its location makes it simple to include the place in a larger walking tour of the city.

World chess champion Tigran Petrosian lived in this building from 1929 to 1946, during his childhood and youth; a memorial plaque marks the fact. The building also housed the Argonauts' Boat cafe from 1918, whose walls were painted by Kirill Zdanevich, Lado Gudiashvili and Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikov.