Irakli Tsereteli was a Georgian politician and a leading spokesman of the Social Democratic Party of Georgia and later Russian Social Democratic Labour Party during the era of the Russian Revolutions.
Tsereteli in 1917
Noe Zhordania, like Tsereteli a Georgian Menshevik. Though the two disagreed on many topics, Zhordania encouraged Tsereteli to stand for election in 1907, later stating it was the "only time that Irakli ever listened to me."
"The victorious return of the Caucasian deputies of the State Duma of the Second Convocation," cartoon from the Armenian satirical magazine Khatabala. Tsereteli is depicted third from left in the red shirt.
The Hotel Beau Séjour, site of the Zimmerwald conference, in 1904
The Russian Provisional Government was a provisional government of the Russian Empire and Russian Republic, announced two days before and established immediately after the abdication of Nicholas II on
Nine members of the Provisional Committee of the State Duma in March 1917. From left to right: Seated: V. N. Lvov, V. A. Rzhevsky, S. I. Shidlovsky, and M. V. Rodzianko (chairman); Standing: V. V. Shulgin, B. A. Engelhardt, A. F. Kerensky, and M. A. Karaulov.
Twelve members of the Russian Provisional Government, from left to right: P. N. Milyukov, G. E. Lvov, A. F. Kerensky, N. V. Nekrasov, A. I. Konovalov, A. A. Manuilov, A. I. Guchkov, A. I. Shingariev, A. I. Terestchenko, I. V. Godniev, V. N. Lvov, and F. I. Rodichev. Poster published by the Russian Information Bureau, New York City, 1918.