Merab Kostava
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Merab Ivanes dze Kostava was a Georgian dissident, musician and poet; one of the leaders of the National-Liberation movement in Georgia. Along with Zviad Gamsakhurdia, he led the dissident movement in
Photo of Kostava contained in his Soviet arrest record
Soviet mugshot of Kostava while under arrest at a detention center in Tbilisi
Merab Kostava bust in Tbilisi
Zviad Gamsakhurdia
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Zviad Konstantines dze Gamsakhurdia was a Georgian politician, human rights activist, dissident, professor of English language studies and American literature at Tbilisi State University, and writer w
Merab Kostava
…26, 1939 – October 13, 1989) was a Georgian dissident, musician and poet; one of the leaders of the National-Liberation movement in Georgia. Along with Zviad Gamsakhurdia, he led the dissident movement in Georgia against the Soviet Union and was active in protests for an independent Georgia, until his death in a car crash…
Gamsakhurdia in 1989
Leaders of the Georgian independence movement in the late 1980s, Zviad Gamsakhurdia (left) and Merab Kostava (right)
Gravestone of President Gamsakhurdia in Tbilisi.
Gamsakhurdia on a 2019 postage stamp commemorating his would-be 80th birthday