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Grigol Robakidze

Died in 1962

Grigol Robakidze, born in Sviri, in Imereti, in 1880, into a family of priests, studied philosophy in Germany, was in 1917 one of the founders of the Georgian writers' union, and in 1919 served as secretary of the delegation of the Democratic Republic of Georgia in Paris. Having left for Germany in 1931, he never returned, was declared a traitor, and his name was erased from Soviet textbooks for sixty years. He spent his last years in Switzerland and died in Geneva on 19 November 1962, aged eighty-two.

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