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Martvili Martvili ( ka, მარტვილი) is a small town in Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti province of Western Georgia. Its monastery was Samegrelo's clerical centre in the Middle Ages. Under Soviet rule, from 1936 to 1990, it was named Gegechkori after ...

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, signature = Gegechkori signature (vect).svg Evgeni Gegechkori ( ka, ევგენი გეგეჭკორი) (20 January 1881, in

– 5 June 1954, in

) was a

nobleman, politician, and

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revolutionary. Born of a noble family, he entered the Social Democratic student movement in 1903 during his studies at the

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and soon joined the

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wing of the

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. He was involved in the

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in Georgia and was elected a member to the Third State Duma for the

from 1907 to 1912. During the

February Revolution The February Revolution ( rus, Февра́льская револю́ция, r=Fevral'skaya revolyutsiya, p=fʲɪvˈralʲskəjə rʲɪvɐˈlʲutsɨjə), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and somet ...

in 1917, Gegechkori became commissar for the

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in western Georgia. From 28 November 1917 to 26 March 1918 he chaired the

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n Commissariat and served as minister of labor before leading the Transcaucasian Sejm and becoming its minister of war. After the establishment of the

Democratic Republic of Georgia The Democratic Republic of Georgia (DRG; ka, საქართველოს დემოკრატიული რესპუბლიკა ') was the first modern establishment of a republic of Georgia, which existed from May 1918 to ...

in May 1918, he became its Minister of Foreign Affairs. In 1921, he briefly served as a

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. After the

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, Gegechkori left for

in March 1921. From 1953 until his death, he headed the Georgian government in exile.

References

* Mikaberidze, Alexander (ed., 2007)
Gegechkori, Evgeni
''Dictionary of Georgian National Biography''. Retrieved on April 29, 2007. * Jones, Stephen F. (2005), ''Socialism in Georgian Colors: The European Road to Social Democracy, 1883-1917''.

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, .
The history of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia
Ministry of Justice of Georgia. Accessed on November 20, 2007.

Bibliography

External links

(French) Evguéni Guéguétchkori

(French) Ière République de Géorgie
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(French) Ière République de Géorgie en exil
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