Career
Born in Tiflis (Tbilisi), then part of the Russian Empire, Chichinadze began his career as a worker in a tobacco factory. An avid history reader, he began writing articles on the history of Georgian literature and printed book for the Georgian press in 1872. He collected and published hundreds of old manuscripts of the historical Georgian chronicles and documents as well as his contemporary Georgian articles
Chichinadze was also known by his pen-name Mtatsmindeli, that is, "of the Holy Mountain", a mountain at Tbilisi, where he is now buried, at the Pantheon of Writers and Public Figures.