Varlam Cherkezishvili, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Varlam Cherkezishvili

Georgian politician and journalist

Date of Birth: 15-Sep-1846

Place of Birth: Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, Georgia

Date of Death: 18-Aug-1925

Profession: politician, journalist, anarchist

Nationality: Georgia

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Varlam Cherkezishvili

  • Prince Varlam Cherkezishvili (Georgian: ?????? ????????????) (15 September 1846 in Tiflis – 18 August 1925 in London) was a Georgian politician and journalist, involved in anarchist communist movement, and later in the Georgian national liberation movement.
  • He was also known as Warlaam Tcherkesoff or Varlam Cherkezov in Russian manner.
  • He was born into the family of the Georgian Prince Aslan Cherkezishvili in Tbilisi, Georgia (then part of Imperial Russia).
  • He was sent to be educated in Russia in the 1850s.
  • He joined the Russian socialist movement at its very beginnings, and was arrested twice between 1866 and 1869.
  • Following a trial in the summer of 1871, he was imprisoned at the Peter and Paul Fortress, and then exiled in Tomsk in 1874.
  • Two years later, he escaped to Western Europe, where he worked with the press in the circles of Russian emigration and fellow anarchists.
  • He was also prominent in his criticism of Marxist ideas.
  • His main work, Pages of Socialist History, was translated into nine languages.
  • Actively involved in the Georgian national liberation movement, he helped to found the Georgian Socialist-Federalist Party.
  • He wrote for The Times a series of articles in 1877 to bring to the attention of an English speaking audience the situation in Georgia.
  • He returned to Tiflis, Georgia, with the break-up of the Russian Revolution of 1905, but its failure and the repression in Georgia compelled Cherkezishvili to return to Europe (1907).
  • With Kropotkin, Rudolf Rocker and Alexander Schapiro he participated in the foundation of the Anarchist Red Cross.
  • Back in London, he rallied Kropotkin's position in defense of the Allies in World War I, and signed in 1916 the so-called Manifesto of the Sixteen.
  • With the October Revolution of 1917 he returned to Petrograd, and when Georgia obtained its independence in May 1918, he obtained a seat in the Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia.
  • The Soviet occupation forced him into exile in March 1921.
  • He returned to London where he would continue to fight again for Georgia’s independence, until his death in 1925.

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