Varlam Cherkezishvili ( ka, ვარლამ ჩერქეზიშვილი) (15 September 1846 – 18 August 1925), also known as Warlaam Tcherkesoff or Varlam Nikolaevich Cherkezov in

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manner, was a

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aristocrat and journalist involved in

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and Georgian national liberation movement. Cherkezov was born in

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as a Georgean prince. During the anarchist Peter Kropotkin's exile in London, Cherkezov was his closest confidant. Around 1907, he helped organize the London Anarchist Red Cross to aid political prisoners alongside Peter Kropotkin,

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and Alexander Schapiro. Cherkezov joined Kropotkin in signing the 1916

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in support of the

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. Near the end of his life, Cherkezov returned to

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where he would continue to fight again for Georgia's independence, until his death in 1925.

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"Georgian independence petition 'found' in Oxford"
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