Education
Devdariani graduated from the Tbilisi Theological Seminary in 1898.
Devdariani graduated from the Tbilisi Theological Seminary in 1898.
During the Russian Revolution of 1917, he was a leading Menshevik in Kharkiv. After the fall of the Georgian republic, Devdariani became involved in anti-Soviet opposition. In 1937, he was arrested in Tbilisi and executed by the Soviet government.
Devdariani was the author of several works on philosophy, including a three-volume history of Georgian thought which was lost after his execution.
Only one chapter, that on the 18th-century Catholicos Anton I, survived to be published in 1989.
He was involved in Menshevik Party in 1900.
He was a member of the Georgian National Council from 1917 to 1919 and of the Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia for the Social-Democrats from 1919 to 1921. Between 1921 and 1924 he was a Chairman of the underground Central Committee of the Georgian Social-Democratic party, in 1922-1924 member of the underground Committee of Independence of Georgia.