Ilia Chavchavadze

Ilia Chavchavadze was born in Kvareli, in Kakheti, on 27 October 1837, into a princely family. A law student in Saint Petersburg, he left the university in 1861, at the time of the student unrest, and returned to Georgia. A leader of the generation of the Tergdaleulebi, he defended the Georgian language, education and traditions against Russification: in 1877 he founded the newspaper Iveria, in 1879 the society for the spread of education, and helped to create a Georgian bank. Assassinated on 30 August 1907, he was canonized by the Georgian Church in 1987.

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• Narrativeმგზავრის წერილებიIlia Chavchavadze · 1861not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain