Background
GOMARTELI, Ivan was born in 1975.
GOMARTELI, Ivan was born in 1975.
1889 graduate Medical Faculty, Moscow University.
1906 elected Kutaisi Province deleg, 1st State Duma. After the dissolution of the Duma, senteced to three months’ imprisonment for signing Vyborg Proclamation. After serving the term took no active part in Social-Democratic movement.
1913 left Menshevik organisation because of differences on the nationalities problem. Defended territorial autonomy of Georgia After 1917 October Revol worked for Geo Democratic Government.
1919 candidate member, Tiflis City Duma. From 1921, after Sovietization of Geo, left Mensheviks and cooperated with Soviet regime. Worked as physician and writer (publicist, fiction writer, playwright).
Arrested by State Security organs.