Nikoloz Chkheidze, commonly known as Karlo Chkheidze, was a Georgian politician and statesman. In the 1890s, he promoted the Social Democratic movement in Georgia, and later became a leading Social De
Autochrome portrait by Auguste Léon, 1919
Tomb of Nikolay and Alexandra Chkheidze, in Paris
The Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic was a short-lived state in the Caucasus that included most of the territory of present-day Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia, as well as parts of Russia
Nikolay Chkheidze
…1917 the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia. At the time, Chkheidze was in Georgia. He remained in Georgia and on 23 February 1918, became leader of the Transcaucasian Federation in Tiflis. Some months later the federation was dissolved. On 26 May 1918 the Act of Independence of Georgia was adopted, Chkheidze was elected chairman…
Nikolay Chkheidze, who served as the chairman of the Seim
Akaki Chkhenkeli served both as prime minister and foreign affairs minister for the republic.
Hall in Tbilisi, where Georgia's independence was proclaimed in 1918, leading to the rapid collapse of TDFR within days