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from

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(then part of the Russian Empire. He studied at the Kutaisi Real Gymnasium and became involved in the social-democratic movement. While studying at the Leipzig University, he joined a local Bolshevik group in 1904. Back to Georgia in 1905, he helped propagate

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ideas among the army soldiers stationed in

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and Samegrelo. He was assassinated by a Tsarist police agent in Kutaisi; Rizhinashvili was 20 years of age. His story is described in a 1936 play by the Georgian Jewish writer

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References

*Georgian Soviet Encyclopedia, volume 8, p. 395. 1886 births 1906 deaths Assassinated activists Communists from Georgia (country) Revolutionaries from Georgia (country) Jewish socialists Jews from Georgia (country) Old Bolsheviks Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members {{Georgia-politician-stub