Georgy Ilyich Gogelia (1878–1924) was a

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Biography

1895 Events January–March * January 5 – Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. * January 12 – The National Trust for Places of Histor ...

he graduated from the Ozurgeti Theological School, then the Kutaisi Theological Seminary. In

1897 Events January–March * January 2 – The International Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded, in New York City. * January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the ruler. This leads to a puniti ...

he left for

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and lived in Saint-Louis. He graduated from the Faculty of Agronomy at the Agronomic College of Nans, then studied in

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, attended lectures in chemistry at the

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. Abroad, Gogelia entered the revolutionary struggle, becoming a member of an organized group of Russian anarchists. Together with his wife, he edited the anarchist party organ "

Bread and Freedom Bread and Freedom (russian: Хлеб и Воля, translit=Khleb i Volia) was a group of communist anarchists that had a great influence on the revolutionary movement in Russia. History The forerunner of the "Bread and Freedom" group was the " ...

" in

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, in which active anarchists

Pyotr Kropotkin Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (; russian: link=no, Пётр Алексе́евич Кропо́ткин ; 9 December 1842 – 8 February 1921) was a Russian anarchist, socialist, revolutionary, historian, scientist, philosopher, and activ ...

Varlam Cherkezishvili Varlam Cherkezishvili ( ka, ვარლამ ჩერქეზიშვილი) (15 September 1846 – 18 August 1925), also known as Warlaam Tcherkesoff or Varlam Nikolaevich Cherkezov in Russian manner, was a Georgian aristocrat and journal ...

and Luigi Bertoni actively collaborated. From the time of the

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, Gogelia was one of the most active figures among the anarchists, editing various magazines and newspapers, participating in meetings, discussions and lectures. Arriving home during the 1905 revolution, he was engaged in revolutionary propaganda in Sukhumi and

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. But soon he fled to Europe again - first to

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and then to France. He published works by Cherkezishvili; The most important of these was "How and from what did revolutionary syndicalism develop?" In the summer of 1914, Gogelia was diagnosed with "progressive

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". In 1921, Gogelia returned to Georgia. He lived first in

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, then in Kobuleti. He ended his life in a psychiatric hospital and was buried in the

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of writers and public figures.

Literature

* ზ. ბაბუნაშვილი, თ. ნოზაძე, «მამულიშვილთა სავანე»,გვ. 106, თბ., 1994 * შველიძე დ., ენციკლოპედია «საქართველო», ტ. 2, გვ. 59–60, თბ., 2012 წელი.

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