Career
He became a de facto head of the peasant government, sometimes described by the contemporary observers as a "Gurian president" or even "Gurian king". During the short-lived independent Democratic Republic of Georgia, he served as a mayor of Tiflis, the capital of Georgia (1919–1920). After the Soviet invasion of Georgia, he immigrated to France, where he became an official owner of the Leuville chateau, a residence of the Georgian government-in-exile.
He returned to Georgia in 1923 to take part in the preparations for a general uprising against the Bolshevik regime.
He was arrested, however, and executed.
