Career
From 1907 until 1918 Shervashidze worked a scenographer at the Saint St. Petersburg Mariinsky and Alexandrinsky theatres. He co-operated with Alexandre Benois, Aleksandr Golovin, Valentin Serov and Pablo Picasso. He requested for all his work to be left to Georgia after his death.
After the Russian Revolution, Chachba went into exile in France.
He died on 17 August 1968 at the age of 101 in the hostel for the elderly in Monaco, and was buried at the Russian cemetery in Nice. On 12 May 1985, Shervashidze was ceremonially reburied in the centre of the Abkhazian capital Sukhumi.
On 24 December 2013, a monument was unveiled on his grave.